Inherit the Wind is a play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee. The play which debuted in 1955 is a story that fictionalizes the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial as a means to discuss the then-contemporary McCarthy trials.The debate over creationism versus evolution has contemporary resonance as evidenced by the play’s numerous revivals and screen adaptations decades after its initial theatrical run.
author
Jerome Lawrence, Robert Edwin Lee
character in play
Henry Drummond Matthew Harrison Brady E. K. Hornbeck Bertram Cates Rachel Brown Rev. Jeremiah Brown
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