Inge, William (Vol. 8) | Inge, William 1913–1973
Inge, William 1913–1973
An American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist, Inge is the author of, among other plays, Bus Stop and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. Inge presents ordinary lives; their horror, in his view, rests in their banality. Like the plays of Tennessee Williams, Inge's dramas frequently focus on women. He was a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. (See also CLC, Vol. 1, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 9-12, rev. ed.)
William Inge the playwright, like William Inge the gentleman from Kansas via St. Louis, uses his good manners for their proper dramatic purpose, which is to clothe a reality which is far from surface. It is done, as they say, with mirrors, but the mirrors may all of a sudden turn into x-ray photos, and it is done so quietly and deftly that you hardly know the moment when the mirrors stop being mirrors and the more penetrating exposures begin to appear on the stage before you. All...
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