Joanne B. Karpinski (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: “The Ghosts of Chekhov's Three Sisters Haunt Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart,” in Modern American Drama, edited by June Schulueter, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1990, pp. 229-45.
[In the following essay, Karpinski notes the similarities between The Three Sisters and Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart, which include a trio of females, the domestic setting, and humorous elements.]
In Mississippi Writers Talking, Beth Henley identifies herself more with...
Source: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, ©2000 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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