Gods of the Lightning

In many ways, the turbulent history of anarchy in the United States reached a climax with the case of Sacco and Vanzetti. In turn, the fate of Sacco and Vanzetti seemed to confirm and validate the pessimistic strain of the social protest plays under study. Maxwell Anderson and Harold Hickerson set out to capture the outraged sentiments of the time with what John Gassner called “the strongest drama of social protest produced in the 1920s” (Gassner “Introduction: Gods of the Lightning ” 530). It... Voir plus