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The complete collection of E. E. Cummings's writing for the stage, from the most inventive poet of the twentieth century.__The Theatre of E. E. Cummings__ collects in their entirety Cummings's long out-of-print theatrical works: the plays __HIM__ (1927), __Anthropos__ (1930), and __Santa Claus__ (1946), and the ballet treatment __Tom__ (1935). In __HIM__, a creatively blocked artist and his lover, Me, struggle to bridge the impasse in their relationship and in his art. In __Anthropos__, a Platonic parable, three "infrahumans" brainstorm slogans while a man sketches on a cave wall; and in __Santa Claus__, Death and Saint Nick exchange identities. Harriet Beecher Stowe's __Uncle Tom's Cabin__ is reimagined as dance, transforming the novel into a symbolic attack against Evil itself. Cummings's prodigious creativity is on display in each of these works, which are ultimately about the place of the artist outside of society. "DON'T TRY TO UNDERSTAND IT, LET...

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Author

Cummings, Edward Estlin; Firmage, George James

Publisher

Liveright Publishing Corporation; Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781781684146

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

4.12 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14