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- In the play, Emily refers to the family prayers led by her father each morning (Luce, The Belle of Amherst, p. 30). Fathers generally led the family prayers, which were often followed by the whole family joining in singing hymns.
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The Belle of Amherst is a one-woman play by William Luce. Based on the life of poet Emily Dickinson from 1830 to 1886, and set in her Amherst, Massachusetts, home, the 1976 play makes use of her work, diaries, and letters to recollect her encounters with the significant people in her life – family, close friends, and acquaintances. It ...
- Charles S. Dubin, Michael Merrick, Don Gregory
- 1976
Plot Summary. Based on the life of the nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson, American playwright William Luce’s one-woman play The Belle of Amherst (1976) opened on April 28, 1976 on Broadway with actor Julie Harris portraying all of the play's fifteen characters.
May 22, 2017 · After she left college, Emily lived quietly at the family home, where she spent the rest of her adult life writing poetry. Her verses were short but inventive, and her themes universal: love, death, and her relationship with God and nature.
feel it for the audiences who have taken our “Belle” to their hearts. The Belle of Amherst is a love affair with language, a celebration of all that is beautiful and poignant in life. As it turns out, shy Miss Emily was writing for theater as surely as she breathed. In her every evocative phrase there is theatrical texture.
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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born Dec. 10, 1830 in Amherst, Mass. and died May 15, 1886. She was, with Walt Whitman, one of the two foremost American poets of the 19th century. Her grandfather founded Amherst College.
Nov 15, 2017 · Quoting from an 1845 letter to a classmate at Amherst Academy, Dickinson proudly pronounces: “I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my seventeenth year.” With a sardonic twinkle in her eye, Fry reminds us how uncommonly funny Dickinson’s observations can be: How dreary—to be Somebody! How public—like a Frog—
