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The Thesis will deal with one of the most important pillars of American Drama at this time who was Robert Emmet Sherwood. He was one among the nation’s first film critics, a speechwriter for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and a propagandist during war II. Furthermore, he served as a special assistant to the secretary of war (1940) and therefore the secretary of the navy (1945).In 1925, Sherwood began to feel that he wanted to spread his antiwar message but not on the screen. He believed that for this cause he needed to use words, not images, to make his vision. He found that the “silent drama” was not his place, but it was the theater.
The researcher has chosen three of the author’s most prominent plays, namely Waterloo Bridge, There Shall Be No Night, and Idiot’s Delight. The common factor among these plays was that they deal with different love stories that are destroyed by war. These plays are distinguished because they contain hints and references to topics of a political nature. In ”Waterloo Bridge”, for instance, there was a treatment of the predicament of the peaceful American man from The Second World War through a love story that ended the life of the heroine at the end of the play.
The Importance of this study lies in its attempt to discuss how far Robert E. Sherwood helped provide a model of the public intellectual by revealing his inner struggle and antiwar passion during his political journey, his experience as a soldier during World War I and the Cold War and as speechwriter of the American President during World War II, and how far all that had been reflected in his writing technique and changed his opinions. Relying largely on selected plays of his masterpieces shared in love that had been destroyed by war through three different kinds of love. In Waterloo Bridge, we have a love story between a man and a woman who committed suicide as she thought that she had lost her lover in the war. While in Idiot’s Delight we have the destroyed love when war separated two lovers in different countries and how each one failed to recognize the other when they met again after many years. In There Shall Be No Night, Sherwood portrayed two kinds of love; love of the nation and parental love.
The present study contains an introduction, three chapters, and a conclusion. The introduction provides an overview of the playwright and his important plays. That aims to analyze the theme of anti-war and destroyed love because of war in Robert E. Sherwood’s plays: Waterloo Bridge, Idiot’s Delight and There Shall Be No Night.