Watch on the Rhine (play)

Watch on the Rhine
Watch on the Rhine
	First edition 1941
Written by	Lillian Hellman
Date premiered	April 1, 1941
Place premiered	Martin Beck Theatre,; New York City, New York
Original language	English
Genre	Drama
Setting	The living room of the Farrelly country house, about 20 miles from Washington, D.C., in late spring 1940

Watch on the Rhine is a 1941 American play by Lillian Hellman. In an essay on World War II, a contributor to The Companion to Southern Literature (2002) wrote that the play's "peculiar combination of drawing-room comedy in a genteel southern home with sinister corruption of the Nazi regime in Europe made for a unique and powerful drama, one strong enough to win the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award."^[1]

^ Flora, Joseph M.; MacKethan, Lucinda (2002). The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs. Louisiana State University Press. p. 999. ISBN 9780807126929.

[southern-1] Flora, Joseph M.; MacKethan, Lucinda (2002). The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs. Louisiana State University Press. p. 999. ISBN 9780807126929.

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