MARK CALDWELL
SENIOR PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, FORDHAM UNIVERSITY

PHILIP GOES FORTH depicts the life of a few young artists living in a rooming house in New York in the 1930’s. Dr. Caldwell helpS to put the play into a social and historical context. He is the author of New York Night: The Mystique and Its History (2005). Other books by Caldwell include: The Prose of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1987); The Last Crusade: America’s War on Consumption, 1862-1954 (1988), Saranac Lake: Pioneer Health Resort (1993), A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America (1999)

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