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ISU Play Concordances
Searching "The Children's Hour" by Lillian Hellman
Complete Alphabetical Word List from The Children's Hour
Complete Word List Ordered by Frequency for The Children's Hour
View starting dialogue for each section from The Children's Hour to help identify location of a particular passage.
Searching the Play
In the following link, search using your browser's Find mechanism (under the Edit menu item in Netscape). All keywords are prefixed with a double-colon (::) and all speaker's names are prefixed with a colon-equals (:=) while location within the source is designated by a locator at the start of the string. Keywords are first grouped together in alphabetical order and then sequenced by their order within the play. As an example:1.3 ::AGENTS :=Mrs. Mortar: go back to the stage. I'll write to my agents tomorrow, and as soon as they haveThe keyword here is AGENTS (search for ::AGENTS) while the speaker is Mrs. Mortar and the phrase is "go back to the stage. I'll write to my agents tomorrow, and as soon as they have" which can be found in the text source under CHILD1.3.Complete Word, Speaker and Phrase List Ordered Alphabetically for The Children's Hour
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