Chicago: With the Chicago Tribune Articles That Inspired It
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Jake Callahan, exhalting in his great fortune at finding the story of "the most beautiful murderess," precisely characterizes Watkins's satirical take on murder and its aftermath--a view she formed while covering two similar and equally sensational murder trials for the Chicago Tribune.
Watkins opens this comic drama with a brutal dramatization of the same situation the women in her articles faced: a vengeful Roxie has slain her lover for mistreating her. And then the fun begins. A boring, run-of-the-mill murderess until her frank confession creates an opportunity for profit, Roxie begins a transformation to rival that of Pygmalion's statue. She becomes, as Thomas H. Pauly points out in his introduction, a "tabloid Cinderella."
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0809321297
ISBN13:9780809321292
Release Date:October 1997
Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press
Length:200 Pages
Weight:0.66 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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