By Reginald Rose,Steven Price
ISBN-10: 0413706109
ISBN-13: 9780413706102
ISBN-10: 1417812656
ISBN-13: 9781417812653
ISBN-10: 1522609970
ISBN-13: 9781522609971
In long island, 1954, a guy is useless and the lifetime of one other is at stake. A 'guilty' verdict turns out a foregone end, yet one member of the jury has the desire to probe extra deeply into the facts and the braveness to confront the lack of knowledge and prejudice of a few of his fellow jurors. The clash that follows is fierce and passionate, slicing immediately to the guts of the problems of civil liberties and social justice.
excellent for the coed reader, the accompanying pedagogical notes comprise parts akin to an writer chronology; plot precis; steered additional studying; explanatory endnotes; and questions for extra research. The advent discusses intimately the play's origins as a 1954 American tv play, Rose's re-working of the piece for the degree, and Lumet's 1957 movie model, picking textual diversifications among those types and discussing later major productions.
The remark additionally situates the play relating to the style of court drama, as a milestone within the improvement of televised drama, and as an engagement with questions of yankee individualism and democracy.
jointly, this gives scholars with an version that situates the play in its modern social and dramatic contexts, whereas encouraging mirrored image on its wider thematic implications.
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