For 10 points, identify this playwright, author of Awake and Sing! and Waiting for Lefty.
In one of his plays, one character quotes Shakespeare by telling another character that she is "green and fresh in this old world." The affair between those characters, the middle-aged dentist Ben Stark and his secretary Cleo Singer, is the subject of Rocket to the Moon. In a better-known play, Hennie marries Sam Feinschreiber after becoming pregnant, and Jacob commits suicide after his record of Enrico Caruso is smashed by Bessie Berger. "The Young Hack and his Girl," in which the lovers Sid and Flor can't afford to get married, is one scene in another play, which ends with a chorus of "Strike, strike, strike!" For 10 points, identify this playwright, author of Awake and Sing! and Waiting for Lefty.
In one of his plays, one character quotes Shakespeare by telling another character that she is "green and fresh in this old world.
Clifford {Odets}