| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In the Clap Shack | 1973 | William Styron | Buy |
In the Clap Shack (1973) is William Styron’s only play, set in a Navy VD ward during World War II. The title gives a fair sense of the material: dark comedy about young men stuck in a military hospital with diseases they’d rather not discuss. Styron drew on his own Marine Corps experience for the setting, and the play uses humor to get at the indignities of military institutional life.
There are 1 books in the William Styron Plays series, published in 1973.
The first book in the William Styron Plays series is In the Clap Shack, published in 1973.
In the Clap Shack (1973) is set in a Navy hospital’s venereal disease ward during World War II. The play draws on Styron’s own military service and uses dark humor to explore the dehumanizing aspects of military life and institutional medicine.
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