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Author : Alan S. Downer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book American Drama and Its Critics written by Alan S. Downer and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Seymour Downer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (911 download)
Download or read book American Drama and Its Critics written by Alan Seymour Downer and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Montrose Jonas Moses
Publisher : New York : Cooper Square Publishers, 1967 [c1934]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The American Theatre as Seen by Its Critics, 1752-1934 written by Montrose Jonas Moses and published by New York : Cooper Square Publishers, 1967 [c1934]. This book was released on 1967 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Seymour Downer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (463 download)
Download or read book American Drama and Its Critics written by Alan Seymour Downer and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tice L. Miller
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809387484
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Entertaining the Nation written by Tice L. Miller and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this survey of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American drama, Tice L. Miller examines American plays written before a canon was established in American dramatic literature and provides analyses central to the culture that produced them. Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries evaluates plays in the early years of the republic, reveals shifts in taste from the classical to the contemporary in the 1840s and 1850s, and considers the increasing influence of realism at the end of the nineteenth century. Miller explores the relationship between American drama and societal issues during this period. While never completely shedding its English roots, says Miller, the American drama addressed issues important on this side of the Atlantic such as egalitarianism, republicanism, immigration, slavery, the West, Wall Street, and the Civil War. In considering the theme of egalitarianism, the volume notes Alexis de Tocqueville’s observation in 1831 that equality was more important to Americans than liberty. Also addressed is the Yankee character, which became a staple in American comedy for much of the nineteenth century. Miller analyzes several English plays and notes how David Garrick’s reforms in London were carried over to the colonies. Garrick faced an increasingly middle-class public, offers Miller, and had to make adjustments to plays and to his repertory to draw an audience. The volumealso looks at the shift in drama that paralleled the one in political power from the aristocrats who founded the nation to Jacksonian democrats. Miller traces how the proliferation of newspapers developed a demand for plays that reflected contemporary society and details how playwrights scrambled to put those symbols of the outside world on stage to appeal to the public. Steamships and trains, slavery and adaptations of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and French influences are presented as popular subjects during that time. Entertaining the Nation effectively outlines the civilizing force of drama in the establishment and development of the nation, ameliorating differences among the various theatergoing classes, and provides a microcosm of the changes on and off the stage in America during these two centuries.
Author : Thomas F. Connolly
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838637807
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (378 download)
Download or read book George Jean Nathan and the Making of Modern American Drama Criticism written by Thomas F. Connolly and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Readers drawn to the "Roaring Twenties," gossip about the Great White Way, discussion of high, middle, and low-brow culture will seek out this book."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Jürgen Wolter
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Dawning of American Drama written by Jürgen Wolter and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1993-09-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to bring to life the prolonged dawning of American drama, to outline America's continued quest for a national drama and theatre, and to provide a survey of the development of dramatic criticism in the United States. For more than a century, dramatists and critics alike were in search of a distinct American drama. Wolter reconstructs this search through the contemporary writing that reflected the attitudes and values of the period and attempted to define the future of the country's theatre. After a historical survey of theatrical criticism in America, Wolter provides a comprehensive anthology of representative texts on the state of America theatre prior to 1915. This is followed by a bibliography of more than 500 articles from over 150 years of American theatrical criticism. Augmented by an index of names and key terms referred to in the texts, the volume is an essential guide for scholars of American theatre and cultural history.
Author : Helen H. Palmer
Publisher : Hamden, Conn., Shoe String Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Drama Criticism written by Helen H. Palmer and published by Hamden, Conn., Shoe String Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerald M. Berkowitz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317901738
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book American Drama of the Twentieth Century written by Gerald M. Berkowitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Professor Berkowitz studies the diversity of American drama from the stylistic, experimental plays of O'Neill, through verse, tragedy and community theatre, to the theatre of the 1990s. The discussions range through dramatists, plays, genres and themes, with full supporting appendix material. It also examines major dramatists such as Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, Sam Shephard, Tennessee Williams and August Wilson and covers not only the Broadway scene but also off Broadway movements and fringe theatres and such subjects as women's and African-American drama.
Author : Bert Cardullo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781443800358
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)
Download or read book American Drama/Critics written by Bert Cardullo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American Drama/Critics: Writings and Readings" is a collection of essays on acknowledged classics of American drama such as "Death of a Salesman," "The Glass Menagerie," and "Our Town," and on newer but no less esteemed works like David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross" and Sam Shepard's "Buried Child." Included are interviews with the great American drama critics Eric Bentley and Stanley Kauffmann; a consideration of the practice of American dramaturgy; an analysis of the adaptation to film of several American dramas; and an examination of experimental playwriting and production in the United States, as seen in the work of Gertrude Stein as well as that of other, lesser-known avant-garde dramatists. This book's thesis is not only the generally accepted one that American drama is essentially a representational one and that its avant-garde experiments are just that--experimental detours that ultimate lead back to the main highway of realism and naturalism. The thesis of "Americam Drama/Critics" is also that the decline of American drama in the late twentieth to early twenty-first century is paralleled by, and even attributable to, the decline or disappearance of American dramatic criticism.
Author : Floyd Eugene Eddleman
Publisher : Hamden, Conn. : Shoe String Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Drama Criticism written by Floyd Eugene Eddleman and published by Hamden, Conn. : Shoe String Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpretations and criticism of plays by American dramatists published from 1890 to 1977 are indexed by author with indices of critics and playwrights and lists of books and periodicals drawn upon.
Author : Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438129661
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book The Facts on File Companion to American Drama written by Jackson R. Bryer and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.
Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Realist in the American Theatre written by William Dean Howells and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Dean Howells has long been recognized as the chief spokesman for post-1880s American Realism. Most of his writing appeared in popular magazines, however, and has been lost to us. This collection brings together for the first time his most significant essays about American drama written between 1875 and 1919 and a full bibliography of his writings on drama and theatre. The essays have been generously annotated and provide production and publication information on the plays Howells reviewed and biographical notes on the playwrights and actors whose work he described. Howells's commentary, the most literate treatment of American theatre of the time, defines and defends his theory of the evolutionary development of realism in modern drama. Because he reviewed more than on hundred fifty productions, which represent the full range of theatre that was available to him, his insights are based on invaluable first-hand knowledge of both self-consciously literary drama and the popular forms of performance that were central to America's entertainment before World War I. Howells's essays had a powerful influence on the serious playwrights and theatre practitioners who came of age at the turn of the century, and whose work in turn enabled playwrights like Eugene O'Neill and Susan Glaspell to develop a new realism during the teens. The essays in this volume are the core of Howells's theory of dramatic realism and will be interesting to scholars, students, and teachers of theatre history and literary criticism.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Drama Criticism : Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Floyd Eugene Eddleman
Publisher : Hamden, Conn. : Shoe String Press
ISBN 13 : 9780208022707
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (227 download)
Download or read book American Drama Criticism written by Floyd Eugene Eddleman and published by Hamden, Conn. : Shoe String Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third supplement (second was 1989) to the second edition (1979) of American drama criticism lists references to American plays published in books, periodicals, and monographs through 1990. This supplement is longer than the earlier ones, although it covers fewer years, mainly because of the app
Author : Susan C. W. Abbotson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313027234
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Masterpieces of 20th-Century American Drama written by Susan C. W. Abbotson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American playwrights have made enormous contributions to world drama during the last century, and their works are widely read and performed. This reference conveniently introduces 10 of the most important modern American plays read by students. An introductory essay concisely overviews modern American drama, and each of the chapters that follow examines a particular play. Among the plays discussed are Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, and August Wilson's The Piano Lesson. Each chapter includes a biography, a plot summary, an analysis of the play's themes, characters, and dramatic art, and a review of its historical background and reception. Chapters list works for further reading, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.
Author : Julie Adam
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349213632
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Versions of Heroism in Modern American Drama written by Julie Adam and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking as its starting-point the 'death of tragedy' debate, and focusing on the supposed disappearance from the stage of the individual tragic hero, the book views selected plays and writings on the theatre by Miller, Williams, Maxwell Anderson and O'Neill as exemplifying four versions of heroism: idealism, martyrdom, self-reflection and survival. Julie Adam shows that these diverse playwrights share a desire to redefine tragic heroism in individualistic liberal terms.
