![]() ![]() With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. ![]() For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. ![]() More recently, Twelve Angry Men had a successful, and award-winning, run on Broadway. After the critically acclaimed teleplay aired in 1954, this landmark American drama went on to be a cinematic masterpiece in 1957 starring Henry Fonda, for which Rose wrote the adaptation. Reginald Rose deliberately and carefully peels away the layers of artifice from the men and allows a fuller picture to form of them-and of America, at its best and worst. ![]() Eight sets his sights not on proving the other jurors wrong but rather on getting them to look at the situation in a clear-eyed way not affected by their personal prejudices or biases. The play centers on Juror Eight, who is at first the sole holdout in an 11-1 guilty vote. Book Synopsis A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival-featuring an introduction by David Mamet A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic faith in the U.S. About the Book Originally published: U.S.A.: Dramatic Pub., 1955. ![]()
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