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Language
English
Abstract
Holographic draft of a play by Edward Bryant, entitled "Scenario" written ca.1895-1900. Set in the West Virginia coalfields,
the plot of the drama involves mysterious murders and triangular love affairs. The significance of the play to West Virginia
history is the comment the writing makes on turn of the century attitudes of a New York playwright regarding life in West
Virginia. West Virginia men are depicted as brutal, lawless, and uncivilized, and West Virginia women as crude and unfeminine.
References are made to attitudes of West Virginia miners and coal operators, suggesting that the miners were lawless. There
are specific references to strike breakers and lynching.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Edward Bryant Manuscript, A&M 2678, West Virginia and Regional History
Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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