An important and prolific playwright, Philip Barry wrote hit plays such as "The Philadelphia Story "and "Holiday. "However, he has been largely forgotten and no book-length analysis of his work has appeared in more than forty years. With this book, Donald R. Anderson rescues the playwright from obscurity.Although Barry s successes were with comedies of manners, he also wrote dramatic and experimental works. Anderson analyzes all of Barry s plays (twenty-one in total) and questions the traditional characterization of the American playwright s work. He begins with Barry s early plays concerning...
An important and prolific playwright, Philip Barry wrote hit plays such as "The Philadelphia Story "and "Holiday. "However, he has been largely forgot...
