Focus on Emily Dickinson Leads to a Profound Exploration of the Poetry of Existence
This poignant memoir/group biography centers on, and transcends, Julie Harris, Charles Nelson Reilly, and William Luce transforming the actress’s dramatic readings of Dickinson’s poetry into a play.
‘Staging Emily Dickinson: The History and Enduring Influence of William Luce’s The Belle of Amherst’
By Grant Hayter-Menzies
McFarland, 232 Pages
This poignant memoir/group biography is about much more than the staging of a play. It is a profound exploration of the poetry of existence as it came to be dramatized in the lives of an actress, a director, and a playwright, and now remembered through the sensibility of a biographer whose own identity has been shaped by their creative communion.
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