Maxwell Anderson
…itical tragedy Winterset and the comedy High Tor. Anderson enjoyed his greatest commercial success with his three stage plays focusing on the Tudors. All were written in blank verse and each one was eventually adapted for the screen. In 1930, the first of his Tudor dramas, Elizabeth the Queen, opened on Broadway with Lynn Fontanne as Elizabeth and Alfred Lunt as Lord Essex. It was a huge success. The play would later be adapted into the hit movie…