Watch on the Rhine (play)

Watch on the Rhine
First edition 1941
Written byLillian Hellman
Date premieredApril 1, 1941 (1941-04-01)
Place premieredMartin Beck Theatre,
New York City, New York
Original languageEnglish
GenreDrama
SettingThe 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."

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