Dec 4, 2008
Act One | Act One
At a glance:
- Author: Moss Hart
- First Published: 1959
- Time of Work: 1904–1930
- Setting: New York, Vermont, Atlantic City, Brighton Beach, Chicago, and
Philadelphia
- Principal Characters: Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman, Sam Harris, Jed Harris, Charles Gilpin, Augustus Pitou
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Family or family life, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, New York City, Autobiography, Poverty or poor people, Drama or dramatists, Theater, Comedy
- Locales: New York, Chicago, IL, Philadelphia, PA, Atlantic City, NJ, Vermont, Brighton Beach, NY
Form and Content
Moss Hart’s Act One: An Autobiography deals with three
separate themes: the rise from poverty to financial stability, the
acceptance of family, and success in a chosen career (the theater).
The book details Hart’s life from childhood until his first
major theatrical triumph. In doing so, it explores poverty as a force
of discrimination and tells the story of how one member of a family
makes his peace with the other personalities contained in that unit.
To realize these goals, Hart divides his book into two sections, which
he calls “Part One” and...
[The entire page is 1400 words long]
Join eNotes
The above is a free excerpt. Get total access to this content with the:
eNotes Pass
©2000-2008
Enotes.com Inc.
All Rights Reserved
