![]() Henry Drummond is less cynical and biting than the Darrow of Dayton that the Drummond character was based upon. Lawrence and Lee created several fictional characters, including a fundamentalist preacher and his daughter, who in the play is the fiancé of John Scopes. The stage directions set the time as "Not long ago." Place names and names of trial participants have been changed. Inherit the Wind does not purport to be a historically accurate depiction of the Scopes trial. Lawrence and Lee used the Scopes Trial, then safely a generation in the past, as a vehicle for exploring a climate of anxiety and anti-intellectualism that existed in 1950. Lee wrote Inherit the Wind as a response to the threat to intellectual freedom presented by the anti-communist hysteria of the McCarthy era. Playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. ![]() Spencer Tracy, playing Harry Drummond (based on Darrow) examines Fredric March, playing Matthew Harrison Brady (based on Bryan) in the 1960 film version of Inherit the Wind ![]()
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