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FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Barnett, Gene A. “Recreating the Magic: An Interview with Lanford Wilson.” Ball State University Forum 25 (spring 1984): 57-74.

Focuses on Wilson's writing style and creative process.

———. Lanford Wilson. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1987, 170 p.

Provides extensive discussion of Wilson's life and works.

Brustein, Robert. “Post-Naturalist Triumph.” New Republic, no. 3642 (5 November 1984): 27-9.

Lauds a revival of Balm in Gilead, directed by John Malkovich, as “a stylistic triumph.”

Cooperman, Robert. “The Talley Plays and the Evolution of the American Family.” In Lanford Wilson: A Casebook, edited by Jackson R. Bryer, pp. 65-84. New York: Garland Publishing, 1994.

Describes Wilson's Talley trilogy as “a history of family life in modern America.”

Gussow, Mel. “Three Lanford Wilson Plays...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Stanley Kauffmann (review date 13 June 1970)
   2. Lanford Wilson and Esther Harriott (interview date December 1982)
   3. Leslie Kane (essay date 1985-86)
   4. Lanford Wilson and David Savran (interview date 1 December 1986)
   5. Mark Busby (essay date 1987)
   6. Richard Hornby (essay date spring 1988)
   7. Rudolf Erben (essay date February 1989)
   8. Johan Callens (essay date 1989)
   9. Christopher Edwards (review date 9 June 1990)
   10. Lanford Wilson and John C. Tibbetts (interview date spring 1991)
   11. Lanford Wilson and Jackson R. Bryer (interview date 20 May 1993)
   12. Philip Middleton Williams (essay date 1993)
   13. Anne M. Dean (essay date 1994)
   14. James J. Martine (essay date 1994)
   15. Charles Isherwood (review date 10-16 February 2003)
   16. Ricardo Montez (review date 3 May 2003)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright

1. Lanford Wilson