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Beginning with her first play, The Children’s Hour, Lillian Hellman’s plays possessed certain dramatic characteristics: crisp, forceful, realistic dialogue; clear character construction and...
- Hellman, Lillian (Vol. 14)
[Scoundrel Time] is the story of the 67 minutes that...
- Hellman, Lillian (Vol. 14)
Lillian Hellman was the most important American follower of Henrik Ibsen after Arthur Miller. Like Ibsen in his middle period, she wrote strong, well-made plays involving significant social...
Dive deep into Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion
The Children's Hour is a 1934 American play by Lillian Hellman. It is a drama set in an all-girls boarding school run by two women, Karen Wright and Martha Dobie. An angry student, Mary Tilford, runs away from the school and, to avoid being sent back, tells her grandmother that the two headmistresses are having a lesbian affair.
The Children’s Hour, drama in three acts about the tragic repercussions of a schoolgirl’s malicious gossip by Lillian Hellman, performed and published in 1934. Hellman based the plot on an actual case in 19th-century Edinburgh that was detailed in the essay “Closed Doors, or The Great Drumsheugh.
Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour is a realistic thesis play, in a direct line of descent from the work of the great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen (A Doll’s House). It is a fair example of the kind of serious play that has dominated the American theater through most of the twentieth century.
The Children's Hour. Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1934. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF.
