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William Clyde Fitch (May 2, 1865 – September 4, 1909) was an American dramatist, the most popular writer for the Broadway stage of his time (c. 1890–1909). Biography [ edit ] Born in Elmira , New York and educated at Holderness School and Amherst College (class of 1886), William Clyde Fitch wrote over 60 plays, 36 of them original, ranging ...
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The U.S. playwright Clyde Fitch is best known for plays of social satire and character study. He excelled in comedy, realistic dialogue, and theater technique, but the popularity of his plays hardly exceeded his own lifetime. William Clyde Fitch was born in Elmira, N.Y., on May 2, 1865. In 1882 he entered Amherst College, where he was active in ...
Apr 30, 2024 · Clyde Fitch (born May 2, 1865, Elmira, New York, U.S.—died September 4, 1909, Châlons-sur-Marne, France) was an American playwright best known for plays of social satire and character study. Fitch graduated from Amherst College in 1886. In New York City he began writing short stories for magazines. A prolific writer, he produced 33 original ...
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Portrait: William Clyde Fitch. [View 4x enlarged] William Clyde Fitch was the first American dramatist whose name was sufficiently well-known to attract people to the theater. Fitch spent ten of his boyhood years in Schenectady. Born in Elmira on May 2, 1865, son of a captain of the Union Army, he traveled with his parents for four years until ...
Oct 31, 2008 · Here’s the abstract: Clyde Fitch was the most famous playwright of the early twentieth century, but today no one studies him. The disconnect between his fame in his lifetime and his obscurity after death points to a major historiographical problem, a problem that began in Fitch’s own day. Fitch’s numerous contemporary critics, many of ...
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted.
