Description
The complete collection of E. E. Cummings’s writing for the stage, from the most inventive poet of the twentieth century.
The Theatre of E. E. Cummings collects in their entirety Cummings’s long out-of-print theatrical works: the plays HIM (1927), Anthropos (1930), and Santa Claus (1946), and the ballet treatment Tom (1935). In HIM, a creatively blocked artist and his lover, Me, struggle to bridge the impasse in their relationship and in his art. In Anthropos, a Platonic parable, three “infrahumans” brainstorm slogans while a man sketches on a cave wall; and in Santa Claus, Death and Saint Nick exchange identities. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is reimagined as dance, transforming the novel into a symbolic attack against Evil itself. Cummings’s prodigious creativity is on display in each of these works, which are ultimately about the place of the artist outside of society. “DON’T TRY TO UNDERSTAND IT, LET IT TRY TO UNDERSTAND YOU,” Cummings famously wrote about his intentions for the stage. Thoughtful and witty, Cummings’s dramas are an integral part of his canon.
Also By: E. E. Cummings 
E. E. Cummings: Selected Works: A Norton Critical Edition
First Edition, Paperback, 2020
A Miscellany
Revised, Hardback, 2018
Confined to a private edition for decades, this volume sheds further light on E.E. Cummings’s prodigious vision and imagination.
A Miscellany
Revised, E Book, 2018
Confined to a private edition for decades, this volume sheds further light on E.E. Cummings’s prodigious vision and imagination.
E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904–1962
Hardback, 2016
This edition—newly typeset with an introduction by Stephen Dunn—presents the entirety of E.E. Cummings’s transcendent body of work.
ViVa
E Book, 2015
Fresh and candid, but turns earthy, defiant, and romantic, E. E. Cummings' poems celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the...
Also By: George James Firmage
A Miscellany
Revised, Hardback, 2018
Confined to a private edition for decades, this volume sheds further light on E.E. Cummings’s prodigious vision and imagination.A Miscellany
Revised, E Book, 2018
Confined to a private edition for decades, this volume sheds further light on E.E. Cummings’s prodigious vision and imagination.E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904–1962
Hardback, 2016
This edition—newly typeset with an introduction by Stephen Dunn—presents the entirety of E.E. Cummings’s transcendent body of work.
Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E. E. Cummings
E Book, 2015
A new volume in the Liveright series of Cummings reissues, offset from the authoritative Complete Poems 1904-1962.
The Enormous Room
New Edition, E Book, 2014
“Of all the work by young men who have sprung up since 1920 one book survives—The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings.”—F. Scott Fitzgerald
Also By: George James Firmage
A Miscellany
Revised, Hardback, 2018
Confined to a private edition for decades, this volume sheds further light on E.E. Cummings’s prodigious vision and imagination.A Miscellany
Revised, E Book, 2018
Confined to a private edition for decades, this volume sheds further light on E.E. Cummings’s prodigious vision and imagination.E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904–1962
Hardback, 2016
This edition—newly typeset with an introduction by Stephen Dunn—presents the entirety of E.E. Cummings’s transcendent body of work.Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E. E. Cummings
E Book, 2015
A new volume in the Liveright series of Cummings reissues, offset from the authoritative Complete Poems 1904-1962.The Enormous Room
New Edition, E Book, 2014
“Of all the work by young men who have sprung up since 1920 one book survives—The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings.”—F. Scott Fitzgerald
Also By: Norman Friedman
EIMI: A Journey Through Soviet Russia
E Book, 2013
A reissue of E. E. Cummings's long-unavailable, yet pointed and moving story of a journey through Soviet Russia.
EIMI: A Journey Through Soviet Russia
Paperback, 2007
A reissue of E. E. Cummings's long-unavailable, yet pointed and moving story of a journey through Soviet Russia.
