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    A Study Guide for Horton Foote's "The Young Man from Atlanta"
    A Study Guide for Horton Foote's "The Young Man from Atlanta"
    A Study Guide for Horton Foote's "The Young Man from Atlanta"
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    A Study Guide for Horton Foote's "The Young Man from Atlanta"

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    A Study Guide for Horton Foote's "The Young Man from Atlanta," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 3, 2016
    ISBN9781535840736
    A Study Guide for Horton Foote's "The Young Man from Atlanta"

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      A Study Guide for Horton Foote's "The Young Man from Atlanta" - Gale

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      The Young Man from Atlanta

      Horton Foote

      1995

      Introduction

      The Young Man from Atlanta was first performed by the Signature Theatre Company in New York City in 1995, as part of a four-play series of Horton Foote's work. It was the third play produced during the season, following Talking Pictures and Night Seasons. The year concluded with Laura Dennis. Publication of The Young Man from Atlanta followed in American Theatre magazine during the same year. Subsequently, multiple publishers produced copies of the play, all of which were as of 2004 out of print or required special ordering. Interestingly, three of the work's main characters, Will Kidder, Lily Dale Kidder, and Pete Davenport, are characters from Foote's earlier plays. All three characters appear in works that are a part of Foote's nine-play cycle called The Orphan's Home, which he concluded writing in the 1970s. Although Foote began writing The Young Man from Atlanta in the early 1990s, the play is often considered to be a part of the cycle because of the Kidders' and Pete's reappearance.

      Foote's writing career began in the late 1930s, so The Young Man from Atlanta is obviously one of the later works in his oeuvre. As an experienced writer, Foote does not shy away from sensitive and contemporary themes. In The Young Man from Atlanta, Foote explores grief, religious faith, homosexuality, suicide, race relations, the American dream, and deceit. As Ben Brantley remarked in his 1997 review for the New York Times, Foote is a sly, compelling quiet playwright who operates from the assumption that life is a slow, steady series of unanswerable questions and losses against which there is finally no protection. According to Brantley, much of Foote's work is informed by the precept that if you don't talk about the darkest aspects of life, then they don't exist. Indeed, Foote leaves much in this work unsaid, and for some, that is its greatest strength.

      Author Biography

      Horton Foote was born on March 14, 1916, in Wharton, Texas, to Albert and Hallie Foote. Foote is one of America's most prolific and well-known stage, television, and screen writers. As a young man, Foote pursued the stage as a performer and published his first play while he was working as an actor in 1939. From 1933 to 1935, he studied at the Pasadena Playhouse School of Theatre, and from 1937 to 1939, he attended

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