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Beth Henley's 'Crimes Of The Heart'
Beth Henley is a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and screenwriter who is most known for her first professionally produced play Crimes of the Heart. Her plays appear to be influenced by some of Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory. The themes in her plays tent to deal with contrast between kinds of love, particularly romantic love and family love. Her plays also touch on how her female characters are defined and confined by family and society. Most of her plays take place in the

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