Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee,Paperback - Second Edition, Edition: 2,Series: Mermaid Dramabook Series, English-language edition,Pub by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee,Paperback - Second Edition, Edition: 2,Series: Mermaid Dramabook Series, English-language edition,Pub by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Format: Textbook
ISBN:
9780809012237 (0809012235)
ASIN: 9780809012237
Publish date: 28-07-2001
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Read For School,
Historical Fiction,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
Philosophy,
High School,
Fiction
I love this play because Thoreau had many interesting things to say, but he was a long-winded and discursive writer. One of his most famous lines: "Simplify, simplify, simplify." Yes, he did repeat himself. So, the play introduces you to all the cool thoughts, stripped down to their pithiest. A...