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Book Synopsis Clifford Odets by : Margaret Brenman-Gibson
Download or read book Clifford Odets written by Margaret Brenman-Gibson and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). Clifford Odets through his plays, which include "Waiting for Lefty" and "Awake" and "Sing!", was the champion of the oppressed, avenger for the poor. He and his plays, as presented by the influential Group Theatre, were the conscience of America during the Depression. Author Margaret Brenman-Gibson, a respected psychoanalyst and close personal friend, penned what is considered the classic biography of Odets. Based on exhaustive research, including access to his personal papers, plus her own insights into the man and his career, it is at last back in prtin. The book is richly annotated, with a thorough bibliography, personal chronology, a list of Odets' works, published and unpublished, and a section of rare photographs.
Book Synopsis Clifford Odets, Playwright-poet by : Harold Cantor
Download or read book Clifford Odets, Playwright-poet written by Harold Cantor and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study takes a different approach to the work of poet-playwright Clifford Odets. Rather than focusing on biographical and political factors surrounding his works, Cantor provides a close reading of 11 of Odets' plays as a whole, grounding his study within an analysis of themes common to each text. While granting emphasis to Odets' poetic style, Cantor gives due notice to Odets' achievements as both mythmaker and voice of the Jewish middle class. Included are reprints of 'Sum and Substance, ' an interview with the writer conducted by the late Herman Harvey, and a 1998 interview by Cantor with actress/director Joanne Woodward, who has directed recent revivals of four of Odets' plays. Cantor also gives an account of other noted productions in order to illuminate the ways in which this visionary's style has influenced contemporary American theatre. Drawing both from previous works and his own research, Cantor presents a quintessential study of a prolific and influential literary artist. It will prove a useful and timely volume for scholars of theatre and American social history alike.
Book Synopsis Clifford Odets, Playwright by : Gerald Clifford Weales
Download or read book Clifford Odets, Playwright written by Gerald Clifford Weales and published by New York : Pegasus. This book was released on 1971 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Waiting for Lefty by : Clifford Odets
Download or read book Waiting for Lefty written by Clifford Odets and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1962 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The action of the play is comprised of a series of varied, imaginatively conceived episodes, which blend into a powerful and stirring mosaic. The opening scene is a hiring hall where a union leader (obviously in the pay of the bosses) is trying to convince a committee of workers (who are waiting for their leader, Lefty, to arrive) not to strike. This is followed by a moving confrontation between a discouraged taxi driver, who cannot earn enough to live on, and his angry wife, who wants him to show some backbone and stand up to his employer; a revealing scene between a scheming boss and the young worker who refuses to spy on his fellow employees; a sad/funny episode centering on a young cabbie and his would-be bride, who lack the wherewithal to get married; a disturbing scene involving a senior doctor and the underpaid young intern (a labor activist) whom the doctor has been ordered to discharge; and, finally, a return to the union hall where the workers, learning that Lefty has been gunned down by the powers-that-be, resolve at last to stand up for their rights and to strike-and to stay off their jobs until their grievances are finally heard and acted upon by those who have so cynically exploited and misused them.
Book Synopsis Clifford Odets and American Political Theatre by : Christopher J. Herr
Download or read book Clifford Odets and American Political Theatre written by Christopher J. Herr and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new consideration of Odets and his body of work reads his career - the work and the conditions of its invention - as cultural productions created during a time of political, social, and economic change.
Book Synopsis Clifford Odets by : Helene Dorman Hutchinson
Download or read book Clifford Odets written by Helene Dorman Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Clifford Odets by : William W. Demastes
Download or read book Clifford Odets written by William W. Demastes and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1991-07-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known as a revolutionary playwright of the 1930s, Clifford Odets may have reached his zenith when four of his plays were produced on Broadway in 1935: Waiting for Lefty, Till the Day I Die, Awake and Sing!, and Paradise Lost. His plays, however, also show a romantic strain and are at least as much inimate and personal as they are political, often reflecting the isolation and loneliness of individuals in family settings. Never achieving the acclaim of Eugene O'Neill, who came before, or Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, who followed, Odets bridged the gap between earlier melodramatic theatre and the mature post-World War II drama on the American stage, creating rich and varied drama well into the 1950s. That his plays continue to be appraised and performed is clearly evident in this detailed and carefully articulated sourcebook. A near-exhaustive resource for both literary and theatrical research materials on Odets's dramatic career, the volume is organized and indexed for quick reference. Included are a biographical essay; critical overview, production history, and plot summary of each dramatic product; annotated primary and secondary bibliographies and information on archival sources; and production credits. Essential for research libraries and theatre collections, the volume will be useful to theatre scholars and practitioners and to anyone interested in the work of this significant modern American playwright.
Download or read book The Big Knife written by Clifford Odets and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1976 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: We witness the last few days of Charlie Castle, a top movie star and an idealist, whose years of compromise with his beliefs for the sake of a Hollywood career have resulted in the slow destruction of his personality. We see his struggle
Book Synopsis Clifford Odets, Humane Dramatist by : Michael J. Mendelsohn
Download or read book Clifford Odets, Humane Dramatist written by Michael J. Mendelsohn and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Flowering Peach by : Clifford Odets
Download or read book The Flowering Peach written by Clifford Odets and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1954 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: As described by Atkinson is: the story of mankind living out its destiny under the benevolent eye of God. There were giants on the earth in those days of the Deluge. In spirit Noah was the greatest. It is Mr. Odets' mood not to put him
Book Synopsis Six Plays of Clifford Odets by : Clifford Odets
Download or read book Six Plays of Clifford Odets written by Clifford Odets and published by Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 1979 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Three Plays by Clifford Odets by : Clifford Odets
Download or read book Three Plays by Clifford Odets written by Clifford Odets and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1935 edition.
Book Synopsis Clifford Odets by : Robert Baird Shuman
Download or read book Clifford Odets written by Robert Baird Shuman and published by New York : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1962 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapters on the plays, pointing out the allegorical overtones and demonstrating Odet's sympathy with the proletariat over the years.
Book Synopsis The Country Girl by : Clifford Odets
Download or read book The Country Girl written by Clifford Odets and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1951 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The title character is Georgie Elgin, a faithful, forgiving woman, whose long years of devotion to her actor husband, Frank, have almost obliterated her own personality. The life of an actor's wife is not as glamorous as many imagine. So
Book Synopsis Odets, the Playwright by : Gerald Clifford Weales
Download or read book Odets, the Playwright written by Gerald Clifford Weales and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights by : Stella Adler
Download or read book Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights written by Stella Adler and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stella Adler was one of the most influential acting teachers of all time, a legendary force of nature whose generations of students include Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Anthony Quinn, Diana Ross, Robert De Niro, Warren Beatty, Annette Benning, and Mark Ruffalo. This long-awaited companion to her book on the master European playwrights brings to life America’s most revered playwrights, whom she knew, loved, and worked with. Brilliantly edited by Barry Paris, Adler’s lectures on the giants of twentieth-century theater feature her indispensable insights into such classic plays as “Long Day’s Journey into Night,” “The Skin of Our Teeth,” “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “Come Back, Little Sheba,” “The Glass Menagerie,” and “Death of a Salesman,” while shedding new light on such lesser known gems as Tennessee Williams’s “The Lady of Larkspur Lotion” and Arthur Miller’s “After the Fall.” Illuminating, revelatory, inspiring—this is Stella Adler at her electrifying best.
Book Synopsis Clifford Odets by : Margaret Lynn Becker
Download or read book Clifford Odets written by Margaret Lynn Becker and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
