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Drama
Krutch, Joseph Wood | April 1, 1936 issue

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According to the author, a very pedestrian version of the play "An American Tragedy" flourished briefly on Broadway, New York City a few years ago. Like many dramatizations it was hardly more than a hurried synopsis, and it seemed, beside the novel, an impoverished thing. Obviously one cannot simply skeletonize a work of this kind without losing the rich profusion of realistic detail upon which its effect depends, and the least one can say of the play "The Case of Clyde Griffiths" is just that it does attempt in various ways to achieve some sort of intensity calculated to compensate for the solidity which the dramatic form must sacrifice.

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DRAMA; AMERICAN Tragedy, An (Theatrical production); THEATER; PERFORMING arts; BROADWAY (New York, N.Y.); NEW York (N.Y.); NEW York (State); UNITED States
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