Description New York: New Directions. First edition in wrappers. Edited with an introduction by Allean Hale, and with a Foreword by Vanessa Redgrave. Written in 1938 and based on an actual newspaper story, the play follows the events of a prison atrocity which shocked the nation: convicts leading a hunger strike in a Pennsylvania prison were locked in a steam-heated cell and roasted to death. Its sympathetic treatment of black and homosexual characters may have kept the play unproduced in its own...