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- ↑ "Tiger Tiger Burning Bright (Broadway, Booth Theatre, 1962)". Playbill.
- ↑ Zolotow, Sam (31 January 1962). "FEIBLEMAN PLAY DUE NEXT SEASON; 'A Place Without Twilight' Gets Two New Sponsors". The New York Times.
- ↑ Taubman, Howard. "Play A Casualty Of Press Strike; Spoken Word Was Unable to Sustain 'Tiger, Tiger' Cliches Eliminated Does Not Preach Impressive Portrayals", The New York Times , January 22, 1963. Accessed April 14, 2024. "It is always disheartening when a play with decency, fervor and compassion expires prematurely. It becomes tragic when a work like "Tiger Tiger Burning Bright" closes as a result of forces beyond its control. If Peter S. Feibleman's drama is not reprieved, its gravestone should carry the epitaph, 'Fatally wounded by the newspaper strike in New York.'"
- ↑ "Negro in 'Tiger Tiger' Is Not a Stereotype; Theater: Honest Drama". The New York Times. 24 December 1962. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
- ↑ "A Place without Twilight by Peter S. Feibleman: Fine Hardcover (1958) 1st Edition | Argyl Houser, Bookseller". www.abebooks.com.
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