Exclusive: Lillian Hellman’s 1934 play The Children’s Hour, set in an all-girls boarding school, is getting a shot at the small screen with Anonymous Content and Bess Wohl adapting.The play was adapted as a feature film in 1961. starring Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner and...
Most readings of American playwright Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour (1934) focus on the psycho-social power of adolescent-driven gossip, rumours and slander, and the frightening outcomes that can emerge when people lose their ability to reason, question, analyse and criticise the world ...
摘要: This article argues that Lillian Hellman's play The Children's Hour (1934) conflates two taboos: lesbianism and suicide. In so doing, the play creates a space of irresolution that suggests an inherent instability in the process of the taboo....
The intention of this article is to analyze Lillian Hellman's play The Children's Hour (1934) in terms of the intersections of body and space. For this reason, this play has previously been analyzed in terms of feminism and sexual identities, but this article proposes...
儿童原型戏剧原创本文通过比照美国剧作家莉莲·海尔曼原创戏剧《儿童时光》与其历史原型和两部改编电影之间细微而至关重要的差异,挖掘剧作家对女同性恋这一禁忌题材的悉心处理和创作意图。海尔曼在剧中设计了女同性恋教师自杀的结局,间接揭示了社会对同性恋的恐惧和迫害,批判了父权社会对独立女性的规训和压制。比较文学....
Lillian HellmanThe Children's Hourjustice and mercygood and evilAmerican drama張學美(Shuei-May Chang)成功大學外文系 &Airiti Press Inc.小說與戲劇
儿童原型戏剧原创本文通过比照美国剧作家莉莲·海尔曼原创戏剧《儿童时光》与其历史原型和两部改编电影之间细微而至关重要的差异,挖掘剧作家对女同性恋这一禁忌题材的悉心处理和创作意图.海尔曼在剧中设计了女同性恋教师自杀的结局,间接揭示了社会对同性恋的恐惧和迫害,批判了父权社会对独立女性的规训和压制.比较文学...
Prashaanth, R. D.Bhuvaneswari, S.Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry
doi:10.4000/MIRANDA.10519Sarah A. DyneUniversité Toulouse 2 - Le Mirail
The Children’s Hour, drama in three acts about the tragic repercussions of a schoolgirl’s malicious gossip by Lillian Hellman, performed and published in 1934. Hellman based the plot on an actual case in 19th-century Edinburgh that was detailed in the essay “Closed Doors, or The Great ...