Paul Green's The House of Connelly: A Critical Edition

by Paul Green, Margaret D. Bauer (Editor)

Overview

One of Paul Green's best plays, The House of Connelly, was the first play performed (on Broadway in 1931) by the renowned Group Theatre of New York. This book reintroduces the play, and the playwright--famous in his day, but largely forgotten now, although his outdoor symphonic drama The Lost Colony continues to be performed every summer in Manteo, North Carolina.

The House of Connelly, is a more traditional drama, comparable to the writing of Tennessee Williams, and the editor asserts that the play deals more directly and fully with racial issues of the early 20th-century South than Williams did in his work. A new edition of the play includes both the original tragic ending and the revised ending Green wrote upon the Group Theatre directors' request. The writing, production and publication history of the play is provided, as well as a scene-by-scene critical analysis and a discussion of the 1934 film adaptation, Carolina. The play's theme is change and Green shows with both endings that the South had to change to survive.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786494446
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	09/09/2014
Edition description:	Critical
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.80(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Margaret D. Bauer is the Ralph Hardee Rives Chair of Southern Literature and a Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, and editor of the North Carolina Literary Review.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: The House of Connelly, Paul Green,
and the Way He Worked, by Laurence G. Avery
The House of Connelly, A Drama of the Old South and the New,
in Two Acts, by Paul Green
Act I, Scene 1
Act I, Scene 2
Act I, Scene 3
Act II, Scene 1
Act II, Scene 2
Act II, Green’s original Scene 3
Act II, Scene 3, revised ending for the Group Theatre
Paul Green’s The House of Connelly, a Play (and Playwright)
“worth bothering about”: A Scene-by-Scene Analysis,
by Margaret D. Bauer
The House of Connelly from Script to Stage
Act I, Scene 1
Act I, Scene 2
Act I, Scene 3
Act II, Scene 1
Act II, Scene 2
Act II, Scene 3
Act II, Scene 3, the original ending
Act II, Scene 3, the revised ending
Two Endings, One Theme: The Need for Change
From Stage to Screen: Carolina
Paul Green Revisited
Afterword, by Jim Grimsley
Appendix: Reviews of the 1931 Broadway Performance
Notes
References
About the Contributors
Index