Twelve Angry Men

Author(s): Reginald Rose

Plays, Theatre & Dance

The Penguin Classics debut that inspired a classic film and a current Broadway revival
Reginald Rose's landmark American drama was a critically acclaimed teleplay, and went on to become a cinematic masterpiece in 1957 starring Henry Fonda, for which Rose wrote the adaptation. 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 belief in the U.S. legal system. The story's focal point, known only as Juror Eight, is at first the sole holdout in an 11-1 guilty vote. 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 biases. Rose deliberately and carefully peels away the layers of artifice from the men and allows a fuller picture of America, at its best and worst, to form.

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General Fields

  • : 9780143104407
  • : Penguin Publishing Group
  • : Penguin Books
  • : 0.082
  • : April 2006
  • : 196mm X 128mm X 7mm
  • : United States
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Reginald Rose
  • : Paperback / softback
  • : 906
  • : English
  • : 812.54
  • : 73
  • : DD