The verse plays, showing the influence of John Millington Synge, showed realistic portrayals of African Americans, and a revolt against their station in society.
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The libretto, adapted from Oscar Wilde's verse play, makes no attempt to soften the sexual brazenness of Salome or her lascivious stepfather, Herod.
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Here she wrote the verse play " Dido and Aeneas ", which was performed at St . George's Hall and the Cripplegate Theatre.
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And now there is a verse play, " Wolfpit, " by the British writer Glyn Maxwell, who is also poetry editor of The New Republic.
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He wrote verse plays for radio, and verse collections " My Many-Coated Man " in 1957 and " Selected Poems " in 1983.
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In March 1935 Stewart saw Welles's stage performance in Archibald MacLeish's verse play " Panic ", and recommended him to director Homer Fickett.
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Director Irving Reis made much of radio's first verse play . " Hitherto, radio has been presenting drama that was frankly and avowedly adapted from stage writing.
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Over a period of forty years, she had written eight volumes of poetry, two verse plays, and a book-length study of the Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet.
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"Serious Money " ( 1987 ), " a comedy about excesses in the financial world ", is a verse play, chiefly written in rhyming couplets.
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While at Harvard he took a course in creative writing with Archibald MacLeish and began writing verse plays, starting with " Agamemnon, " which was published in 1954.
