The Value of Names and Other Plays

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The Value of Names and Other Plays is written by Jeffrey Sweet and published by Northwestern University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0810123959 (ISBN 10) and 9780810123953 (ISBN 13).

In this collection of plays, the playwright confronts both personal politics and the impact of historical change. The title work, first mounted in 1982, is a comedy-drama about the aftermath of the blacklist whose continued relevance makes it a frequently produced play today. The family drama Porch suggests larger social changes through the interaction of a small-town shopkeeper and his defiant daughter. The lauded American Enterprise, set in the Chicago of the robber barons, is a song-filled true story about a millionaire whose stubborn idealism leads to disaster. Stay till morning is a rueful comedy about sex and accommodation in the Florida Keys. The three plays that grew out of his fascination with the effects of World War II -- Berlin '45, Court-martial at Fort Devens, and The action against Sol Schumann -- dramatize the ways in which that conflict transformed private fates. Each script is accompanied by an introduction from the playwright as well as performance notes.