20th-century playwright's works relevant today; Odets' 'Paradise Lost' onstage at the American Century Theater

From: Washington Jewish Week | Date: November 25, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

A poet of the people, Clifford Odets didn't favor rhymed couplets. His poetry was dramatized free verse, usurping the surging vernacular of the down and out, the working class.

A pre-eminent playwright who came of age theatrically and politically in the 1930s, his poetry was fast-talking street slang, the troubled song of the working class, those barely a generation removed from their immigrant forebear's struggles. Odets' Paradise Lost sings the song of the dispossessed, dramatizing the downward spiral of one extended Jewish family in the Depression.

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