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An O'Neill to be celebrated: Irish American playwright shone a light on ancient hatreds paving the way for a more open and tolerant society. The uproar which unfolded around the Klu Klux Klan in 1924 over O’Neill’s play "All God’s Chillun Got Wings."
An O'Neill to be celebrated: Irish American playwright shone a light on ancient hatreds paving the way for a more open and tolerant society. The uproar which unfolded around the Klu Klux Klan in 1924 over O’Neill’s play "All God’s Chillun Got Wings."
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 6, 2021) — American theatre researchers will benefit from the major discovery of correspondence between two of the nation’s most storied playwrights — Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neill. University of Kentucky Professor Herman Daniel Farrell III, a playwright and noted O’Neill scholar, found the letter while doing research in the archives at Yale University. The newly discovered letter gives readers an idea of the impact the two celebrated artists had on the other. The correspondence, penned by the critically acclaimed Williams in 1945 —...