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Shadowed Cocktails - The Plays of Philip Barry from Paris Bound to The Philadelphia Story (Paperback, New)
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Shadowed Cocktails - The Plays of Philip Barry from Paris Bound to The Philadelphia Story (Paperback, New)
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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 intergenerational tensions and
lessons learned from the Great War. Subsequent chapters explore
Barry's preoccupation with fidelity and infidelity, his struggles
with his Catholic beliefs, and his investigations into sources of
evil and despair. Anderson also looks at the plays of the late
1930s and the 1940s, including the posthumously produced Second
Threshold. One chapter is devoted to Barry's synergistic
relationship with Katharine Hepburn: her role in lifting the
playwright out of a mid-1930s slump and his role in rescuing her
from the label of "box-office poison" with both The Philadelphia
Story and the World War II drama Without Love. Anderson places
Barry within the context of his times but also shows him drawing on
past influences and anticipating theatrical developments of the
latter part of the twentieth century. Part cultural history, part
literary analysis, Shadowed Cocktails is sure to revitalize
interest in this remarkable American author. and his role in
rescuing her from the label of 'box-office poison' with both The
Philadelphia Story and the World War II drama Without Love.
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