Further Reading

• Cooperman, Robert, Clifford Odets: An Annotated Bibliography, 1935 – 1989, Meckler, 1990.

  This book provides an exhaustive bibliography of work by and about Clifford Odets. The book is intended for both dramatists and scholars. The section on critical work includes criticism on Odets and general issues in American society during the years in which his plays were produced.

• Demastes, William W., Clifford Odets: A Research and Production Source Book, Greenwood Press, 2001.

  This book contains plot summaries and critical over-views for each of Odets's plays. The book also includes primary and secondary bibliographies of works by and about Odets.

• Herr, Christopher J., Clifford Odets and American Political Theatre, Praeger, 2003.

  This book explores the links between Odets's plays and the political theatre of the 1930s through the early 1950s. The book's chapters move chronologically through Odets's career. Herr also focuses on Odets's career as a Hollywood screenwriter.

• Miller, Gabriel, Clifford Odets, Continuum, 1989.

  In this book Miller divides Odets's plays thematically and traces the evolution of the playwright's thematic vision through his career.

• — — , Critical Essays on Clifford Odets, G. K. Hall, 1991.

  This collection contains contemporary reviews of Odets's major plays and a number of critical essays on individual plays by a range of scholars. The book also contains three interviews conducted with Odets in the 1950s and 1960s.