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Books : Literature & Fiction : Drama : Playwrights, A-Z : ( L ) : Lawrence, Jerome

• Inherit the Wind

  Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee

  
  One of the most moving and meaningful plays in American theatre--based on the famed Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, in which a Tennessee teacher was tried for teaching evolution--now on Broadway starring Tony Award® Winners Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy, and Directed by Tony Award® Winner Doug Hughes
  
  The accused was a slight, frightened man who had deliberately broken the law. His trial was a Roman circus, the chief gladiators being the two great legal giants of the century. Locked in mortal combat, they bellowed and roared imprecations and abuse. The spectators sat uneasily in the sweltering heat with murder in their hearts, barely able to restrain themselves. At stake was the freedom of every American.
  
  “Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee were classic Broadway scribes who knew how to crank out serious plays for thinking Americans. . . . Inherit the Wind is a perpetually prescient courtroom battle over the legality of teaching evolution. . . . We’re still arguing this case–all the way to the White House.”
  –Chicago Tribune
  
  “Powerful . . . a crackling good courtroom play . . . [that] provides two of the juiciest roles in American theater.”
  –Copley News Service
  
  “[This] historical drama . . . deserves respect.”
  –The Columbus Dispatch
  
   

• The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail: A Play

  Jerome Lawrence

  
  "If the law is of such nature that it  requires you to be an agent of injustice to another,  then I say, break the law." In 1849, the young  Henry David Thoreau, philosopher, poet,  naturalist, penned these timeless words in his  Civil Disobedience. Three years earlier  Thoreau had refused to pay taxes to the government,  which was engaged in the Mexican War. He condemned  the war as unjust--a war never formally declared,  begun without Congressional authorization, a  savage and bloody war fought to assuage the United  States' territorial ambitions. For his courageous and  unprecedented act of protest, he was thrown in  jail. Thoreau was a man of the future. Over the  past century, his action has had worldwide  repercussions. Tolstoy was influenced by his stand, and  Gandhi based his passive resistance campaign on the  words of the philosopher of Walden Pond. Now,  Thoreau's action take on a new relevance. The  Night Thoreau Spent In Jail is an  essential work for today's  world.
  
   

• The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail [A Spotlight dramabook, 1223]

  Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee

  
  
   

• The Gang's All Here

  Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee

  
  
   

• Selected Plays of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

  Jerome Lawrence, Robert Edwin Lee

  
  
   

• The Crocodile Smile.

  Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee

  
  
   

• The Incomparable Max.

  Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee

  
  
   

• Jabberwock: Improbabilities lived and imagined by James Thurber in the fictional city of Columbus, Ohio

  Jerome Lawrence

  
  
   

• Live Spelled Backwards.

  Jerome Lawrence

  
  
   

• Plays on a Human Theme

  Paddy Chayefsky, Lorraine Hansberry, Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee

  
  
   

• Sparks Fly Upward.

  Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee