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  George Jean Nathan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Jean Nathan (born February 14, 1882, Fort Wayne, Indiana - died April 8, 1958, New York, New York) was a U.S. drama critic and editor.
George Jean Nathan Presents (1917); The Critic and the Drama (1922); The Testament of a Critic (1931); Since Ibsen (1933); The World of George Jean Nathan, ed.
Nathan eventually married stage actress Julie Haydon, who was much younger, from 1955 until his death in 1958, aged 76.
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George Jean Nathan was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on February 14, 1882.
Nathan tells us that he chose the theatre as his sphere because it was a place for "the intelligent exercise of the emotions." In his books, Nathan does not so much expound a particular theory or methodology as reveal his own criteria for theatrical excellence.
Nathan established the standard to which all responsible drama critics adhere: the critic owes allegiance to his or her own principles, not to the theatre as an institution.
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 Nathan, George Jean. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In 1924 they founded the American Mercury, a magazine that fostered the most rebellious and lively literature and drama; for a decade the magazine was the arbiter of American literary taste.
Nathan was himself primarily a drama critic, famous for the erudition and cynicism of his reviews; he was an early champion of Eugene O’Neill.
He was a founder and an editor (1932–35) of the American Spectator, and after 1943 he wrote a syndicated column for the New York Journal-American.
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 Nathan, George Jean on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Killed for Kindness; George and Gloria Shenk became footnotes in the tragic drama of "Joby" Palczynski's murderous rampage: the first casualties.
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 Cornell News: Alisa Solomon wins George Jean Nathan Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
She is also a professor of English and journalism at Baruch College, City University of New York, and professor of English and theater at the CUNY Graduate Center..
The Nathan Award is administered by the Cornell University Department of English, under the terms of a trust established by George Jean Nathan (1882-1958), author and critic, who graduated from Cornell in 1904.
George Jean Nathan presided over the development of serious American drama and its audience for the period of their formative growth, 1910-1950.
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As a drama critic Nathan championed the plays of Ibsen, Strindberg and Shaw, and was an early supporter of such playwrights as Eugene O'Neill and Sean O'Casey.
Nathan was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and as a child he traveled widely, studying in Germany, France and Italy as a teenager.
Nathan was himself primarily a drama critic, famous for the erudition and cynicism of his reviews.
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 Alibris: Jean Nathan
Nathan delivers this mesmerizing biography of a woman who struggled to escape the imprisonment of her childhood through her art.
The selection in this one-volume anthology are representative of Nathan's entire oeuvre and include informal essays; criticism of famous plays of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; discussions of dramaturgy and aesthetics; profiles of noted producers, players, playwrights, and other writers; and letters that illuminate his writings.
George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) was formative influence on American letters in the first half of this century, and is generally considered the leading drama critic of his era.
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 George Jean Nathan Award
Raymond Knapp, professor of musicology at the University of California-Los Angeles, is the winner of the 2004-05 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.
The Nathan award is administered under the terms of a trust established by George Jean Nathan, author, critic and 1904 Cornell graduate.
Past recipients of the Nathan Award have included Walter Kerr (1963) and Mel Gussow (1978), both of The New York Times, Albert Williams (2000) of the Chicago Reader, Alisa Solomon (1998) of The Village Voice and Hilton Als (2003) of The New Yorker.
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 George Jean Nathan Biography / Biography of George Jean Nathan Main Biography
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Nathan wrote during the most important period of U.S. theater's history and set critical standards that are still being followed.
Each Biography is written by a biographical expert or professional educator and is a complete resource on the individual.
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 George Jean Nathan Biography / Biography of George Jean Nathan Literary Biography
George Jean Nathan is chiefly remembered as one of the most influential drama critics in the history of American theater.
Perhaps just as important, the Nathan-Mencken partnership played a key role in forming the context for a literary revolution out of which grew one of the richest periods in American belles lettres.
Nathan was born on 14 February 1882 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Charles Naret Nathan, a successful businessman who owned a French vineyard and a Brazilian coffee plantation, and Ella Nordlinger Nathan.
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 AllRefer.com - George Jean Nathan (Journalism And Publishing, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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George Jean Nathan 1882–1958, American editor and drama critic, b.
Fort Wayne, Ind. He left the New York Herald to join H. Mencken in editing Smart Set (1914–23), which they made into a guide for the young American intellectual.
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 Association of Alternative Newsweeklies | Reader Critic Wins Prestigious Award
Albert Williams, drama critic for the Chicago Reader, has won this year's George Jean Nathan Award for dramatic criticism.
Administered by Cornell University on behalf of the Nathan estate, the $10,000 award is "paid to the American who has written the best piece of drama criticism during the theatrical year."
In its award citation, the judging committee states: "Williams writes the kind of criticism for which the George Jean Nathan Prize was designed -- incisive, thorough, confident in the intelligence of its readers and convinced that the theatre makes a difference to the city in which it occurs."
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 RU Alumnus Raymond Knapp Wins Nathan Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
RADFORD – Radford University alumnus Raymond Knapp has been awarded the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.
The annual award, channeled through a trust established by author and critic George Jean Nathan, is given to “the best piece of dramatic criticism, whether article, essay, treatise or book.”
The Nathan committee is represented by English departments at Cornell, Princeton and Yale and is assisted by theatre experts from those schools.
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 Guide to the George Jean Nathan Collection, 1913-1958
Manuscripts, correspondence, printed newspaper articles, clippings, and photographs by, to, or about Nathan, documenting his career as theater critic, author, and editor of the literary newspaper The American Spectator.
Includes manuscripts for books and articles by Nathan; extensive correspondence concerning dealings with publishers, authors, and producers; letters from readers and fellow writers commenting on Nathan's work, including letters on the American Mercury and the American Spectator; and manuscripts of plays by other writers, including 18 plays by William Saroyan and 10 by Sean O'Casey.
He edited the magazine Smart Set with H.L. Mencken from 1914-1923, founded and co-edited the magazine American Mercury with Mencken, and was one of the founding editors of the literary newspaper American Spectator.
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 The Eugene O'Neill Newsletter: New Book on George Jean Nathan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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George Jean Nathan and the Making of Modern American Drama Criticism by Thomas F. Connolly has just been published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
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 Nathan, Angoff and Angelin (1998) The world of George Jean Nathan: Selected essays and reviews
Nathan, Angoff and Angelin (1998) The world of George Jean Nathan: Selected essays and reviews
The world of George Jean Nathan: Selected essays and reviews
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Fascinating Rhythm: The Collaboration of George and Ira Gershwin.
One of the few books to examine the collaboration between lyricist and composer, this super book was based on extensive interviews with Ira.
Suskin, one of God's gifts to theater lovers, revives George Jean Nathan's classic Book of the Year format.
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 George Jean Nathan
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 WSAS Bulletin Issue 3
I am extremely pleased to announce that the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for the 1997-1998 season has been awarded to Alisa Solomon, English Department, author of Re-Dressing the Canon: Essays on Theater and Gender, published by Routledge and Kegan Paul.
The Nathan Award is administered by the Cornell University Department of English, under the terms of a trust established by George Jean Nathan (1882-1958), author and critic.
The award has been given annually since 1958 for "the best piece of dramatic criticism, whether article, essay, treatise or book," published during the theatrical year.
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