The night Thoreau spent in jail
Subtitle: a play in two acts
By: by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Contributors: Lee, Robert Edwin, 1918-1994
Publisher: Samuel French
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York [N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9780573613005
Subjects: Drama
Description: "Produced around the country under the American Playwrights Theatre program, this drama opens with Thoreau in jail for refusing to pay taxes to a government conducting a war of aggression in Mexico, at midpoint shows Emerson visiting him, and ends on the morning of his release. Scenes portray his return from Harvard where he idolized Emerson, his attempt to establish a transcendentalist school, his career as a handyman and tutor in Emerson's household, his romance and his friendship with an illiterate cellmate. The end is a grotesque dream in which the characters take up guises in a mortal assault on Mexico"--Publisher's website.