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    A Study Guide for Ketti Frings's "Look Homeward, Angel"
    A Study Guide for Ketti Frings's "Look Homeward, Angel"
    A Study Guide for Ketti Frings's "Look Homeward, Angel"
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    A Study Guide for Ketti Frings's "Look Homeward, Angel"

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    A Study Guide for Ketti Frings's "Look Homeward, Angel," 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 12, 2016
    ISBN9781535827584
    A Study Guide for Ketti Frings's "Look Homeward, Angel"

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      A Study Guide for Ketti Frings's "Look Homeward, Angel" - Gale

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      Look Homeward, Angel

      Ketti Frings

      1957

      Introduction

      Ketti Frings's Pulitzer Prize–winning 1957 play Look Homeward, Angel is an adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's 1929 novel Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life. The novel is a remarkably autobiographical work that established Wolfe's reputation as one of the greatest writers of his generation, alongside William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway. The work is an exposé of small-town American life that reveals a far different understanding of that culture than the sanitized Norman Rockwell stereotype. In particular, it is the story of a family destroyed by the greed and narcissism of the mother, playing on archetypal themes that go back to the Greek myth of King Midas.

      The play was first performed at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway in 1957. Despite the play's tremendous popular and critical success at the time of its premiere, Look Homeward, Angel is today something of a lost play, rarely performed anymore. It was published by the Samuel French Publishing Company in 1958. Once a regular in anthologies of best plays of the decade or the century, it has not been reprinted since the 1980s, and no full text of it exists on the Internet.

      Author Biography

      Frings was born on February 28, 1909, in Columbus, Ohio. Born Katherine Hartley, her professional name, Ketti Frings, combines her nickname and her name after marriage to Hollywood agent Kurt Frings in 1938. While she was growing up, her family moved about once a year because of her father's work as a salesman. After attending Principia College, in southern Illinois, she moved to New York and worked as an advertising copywriter. After a failed attempt to become a Broadway actress, she moved to California and worked as a freelance journalist covering Hollywood celebrities. She later traveled in Europe and met and married her husband Kurt.

      Returning to the United States in 1940, Frings published the autobiographical novel Hold Back the Dawn and immediately sold it as a screenplay. It was produced as a film the next year. After writing an unsuccessful allegorical Broadway play, Mr. Sycamore, in 1942, Frings became a full-time screen writer, turning out a dozen more projects that were filmed, including Come Back Little Sheba (1952) and The Shrike (1955), both based on Broadway plays.

      In 1957, Frings's adaptation of Look Homeward,

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