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Bryant, Edward

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Edward Bryant Manuscript

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Collection Number: A&M 2678
Overview Holographic draft of a play by Edward Bryant, entitled "Scenario" written ca.1895-1900. Set in the West Virginia coalfields, the plot of the drama involves mysterious murders and triangular love affairs. The significance of the play to West Virginia history is the comment the writing makes on turn of the century attitudes of a New York playwright regarding life in West Virginia. West Virginia men are depicted as brutal, lawless, and uncivilized, and West Virginia women as crude and...
Dates: ca. 1895-1900