Chapters on the plays, pointing out the allegorical overtones and demonstrating Odet's sympathy with the proletariat over the years.

Presents the life of American playwright, Clifford Odets, focusing on his childhood, family, acting career, and the writing of his well-known dramas.

Essential for research libraries and theatre collections, the volume will be useful to theatre scholars and practitioners and to anyone interested in the work of this significant modern American playwright.

This is a new release of the original 1935 edition.