Writing wrongs
Subtitle: the work of Wallace Shawn
By: W.D. King ; foreword by John Lahr.
Contributors: Shawn, Wallace.
Series: American subjects
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Shawn, Wallace -- Criticism and interpretation.; Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Political plays, American -- History and criticism.; United States -- In literature.
Description: Writing Wrongs: The Work of Wallace Shawn is a close and personal look into the life and literary work of the man whom Joseph Papp called "a dangerous writer." As the son of the late William Shawn, renowned editor of the New Yorker, Wallace Shawn was born into privilege and trained to thoroughly liberal values, but his plays relentlessly question the liberal faith in individualism and common decency.

W. D. King's incisive critiques of the plays and inquiry into the life and times of their author develop a portrait of Shawn as a major figure in contemporary theater.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-236) and index.