The way the play portrays them is that Mencken and Darrow are the great good rationalist humanitarians and Bryan is an ultraconservative Bible-beating creationist bigot retard. Each was also deeply flawed (aren't we all). Mencken, were important, and each in their own way, great men in their time. All three real protagonists: William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow, and H.L. If you had used their real names you would have had to put in the good AND the bad. Why hide behind thinly veiled fictional names? I know why, so you can blow them up to be one dimensional cardboard cutouts and get away with it. I don't know why the writers just didn't write a play about McCarthyism or write a more factual drama about the Scope's trial. So what's so wrong with it? Its not really bad, its just not very good. It really isn't a very good drama as literature goes, relying on its political and scientific goals to believe its bombast. I guess they made us read it because of its liberal cachet during the 60s and 70s. It is really a dig at the then rampant McCarthy frenzy that was gripping the United States during the Cold War. It's ostensibly a fictionalization of the Scopes "Monkey Trial" about the illegality of teaching evolution in Tennessee. This is one of the books everyone seems to be forced to read in school in the United States. Overrated piece of political claptrap with thinly veiled characters that smears the reputation of some of the actual people it portrays. deserves respect."- The Columbus Dispatch … ( more) provides two of the juiciest roles in American theater."- Copley News Service " historical drama. We're still arguing this case-all the way to the White House."- Chicago Tribune "Powerful.
Inherit the Wind is a perpetually prescient courtroom battle over the legality of teaching evolution. Lee were classic Broadway scribes who knew how to crank out serious plays for thinking Americans.
Praise for Inherit the Wind "A tidal wave of a drama."- New York World-Telegram And Sun "Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. One of the most moving and meaningful plays of our generation. At stake was the freedom of every American. The spectators sat uneasily in the sweltering heat with murder in their hearts, barely able to restrain themselves. Like two bull elephants locked in mortal combat, they bellowed and roared imprecations and abuse. The chief gladiators were two great legal giants of the century. A classic work of American theatre, based on the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, which pitted Clarence Darrow against William Jennings Bryan in defense of a schoolteacher accused of teaching the theory of evolution The accused was a slight, frightened man who had deliberately broken the law.
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