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Florida Atlantic University
Date Issued
1971
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Four plays by Robert E. Sherwood--The Road to Rome, The Petrified
Forest, Idiot's Delight, and There Shall Be No Night--have protagonists who may be identified by the term "romantic idealist." They
are "romantic" in that they are typically dissatisfied v1ith the present,
nostalgic for the glory of the past, chivalrous in matters of
the heart, irrational in their behavior, and intuitive in their judgments.
Like the Byronic hero, they are capable of intense feeling.
They are "idealistic" in that they hold to noble beliefs of a transcendent
nature--honor, truth, freedom. Within Sherwood's plays there
is a movement toward ever purer manifestations of idealism, culminating
in the idealistically pure (but dramatically simplistic) characterization
of Dr. Valkonen in There Shall Be No Night.
Forest, Idiot's Delight, and There Shall Be No Night--have protagonists who may be identified by the term "romantic idealist." They
are "romantic" in that they are typically dissatisfied v1ith the present,
nostalgic for the glory of the past, chivalrous in matters of
the heart, irrational in their behavior, and intuitive in their judgments.
Like the Byronic hero, they are capable of intense feeling.
They are "idealistic" in that they hold to noble beliefs of a transcendent
nature--honor, truth, freedom. Within Sherwood's plays there
is a movement toward ever purer manifestations of idealism, culminating
in the idealistically pure (but dramatically simplistic) characterization
of Dr. Valkonen in There Shall Be No Night.
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72 p.
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Identifier
13441
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FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1971.
Date Backup
1971
Date Text
1971
Date Issued (EDTF)
1971
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FADT13441
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monographic
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Attributed name: Florida Atlantic University
Attributed name: Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Attributed name: Department of English
Person Preferred Name
AVANT, ROBERT JOSEPH
Graduate College
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72 p.
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TOWARD THE HUMAN EQUATION: THE ROMANTIC IDEALIST IN THE PLAYS OF ROBERT E. SHERWOOD
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1971
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Boca Raton, Fla.
Florida Atlantic University
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Florida Atlantic University Libraries
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Boca Raton, Fla.
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Digital Library
Title
TOWARD THE HUMAN EQUATION: THE ROMANTIC IDEALIST IN THE PLAYS OF ROBERT E. SHERWOOD
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TOWARD THE HUMAN EQUATION: THE ROMANTIC IDEALIST IN THE PLAYS OF ROBERT E. SHERWOOD