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Clyde Fitch and the American Theatre - An Olive in the Cocktail (Hardcover)
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Clyde Fitch and the American Theatre - An Olive in the Cocktail (Hardcover)
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Clyde Fitch (1865-1909) was the most successful and prolific
dramatist of his time, producing nearly sixty plays in a
twenty-year career. He wrote witty comedies, chaotic farces,
homespun dramas, star vehicles, historical works, stark melodramas,
and adaptations of European successes, but he was best known for
his society plays, mirroring themes found in the novels of Henry
James and Edith Wharton. In fact, Fitch collaborated with Wharton
on a stage adaptation of her House of Mirth. He was also a gay man,
although that gentler adjective was not the term of his time. He
was bullied in school and baited by critics throughout his career
for what they supposed of his private life. He responded with
impressive strength and integrity. He was, at least for a short
time, Oscar Wilde's lover, and Wilde influenced his early plays,
but Fitch's study of Ibsen and other European dramatists inspired
him to pursue the course of naturalism. As he became more
successful, he took greater control of the staging and design of
his plays. He was a complete man of the theatre and among the first
names enrolled in New York's theatrical hall of fame.
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