Sunrise at Campobello (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Isidore Schary
- First Published: 1958
- Type of Plot: Biographical; history
- Time of Work: 1921-1924
- Setting: Campobello, New Brunswick, and Madison Square Garden, New York City
- Principal Characters: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Anna, Franklin Jr, James, John, Elliott, Sara Delano Roosevelt, Louis Howe, Al Smith
- Genres: Drama, Biographical drama, History play
- Subjects: History, Politicians, Sick persons, Presidents, Diseases, Polio, Heads of state
- Locales: New York, NY, Canada
The Play
Sunrise at Campobello chronicles the life of future American president Franklin Delano Roosevelt from the brutal onset of his infantile paralysis (polio) to his triumphant return to political life three years later. The curtain rises on the large living room of his summer home at Campobello in Canada’s New Brunswick province. Several of the Roosevelt children run in and report the day’s outdoor activities to their mother, Eleanor. Soon Franklin bounds in behind them. He is a forty-year-old man, fit, strong, and in the prime of life. The pleasant family...
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