Matt Cornish is assistant professor of theater history at Ohio University. His first book, on German theater after 1989, is forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press.
Matt Cornish
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Comedy of Faith
“All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.” —Flannery O’Connor1 Grace is an ideal engine for a play, which must represent people struggling towards transformation, whether through marriage or revenge or, sometimes, faith. Flannery O’Connor, as deeply Catholic and embedded in Georgia as playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis is Catholic and embedded in […]
