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Author : Peter Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780413537270
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (372 download)
Download or read book The Best of Plays and Players, 1969-1983 written by Peter Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Roberts
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Best of Plays and Players, 1969-1983 written by Peter Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dominic Shellard
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300147910
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book British Theatre Since the War written by Dominic Shellard and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British theatre of the past fifty years has been brilliant, varied, and controversial, encompassing invigorating indigenous drama, politically didactic writing, the formation of such institutions as the National Theatre, the exporting of musicals worldwide from the West End, and much more. This entertaining and authoritative book is the first comprehensive account of British theatre in this period. Dominic Shellard moves chronologically through the half-century, discussing important plays, performers, directors, playwrights, critics, censors, and agents as well as the social, political, and financial developments that influenced the theatre world. Drawing on previously unseen material (such as the Kenneth Tynan archives), first-hand testimony, and detailed research, Shellard tackles several long-held assumptions about drama of the period. He questions the dominance of Look Back in Anger in the 1950s, arguing that much of the theatre of the ten years prior to its premiere in 1956 was vibrant and worthwhile. He suggests that theatre criticism, theatre producers, and such institutions as the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company have played key roles in the evolution of recent drama. And he takes a fresh look at the work of Terence Rattigan, Harold Pinter, Joe Orton, Alan Ayckbourn, Timberlake Wertenbaker, and other significant playwrights of the modern era. The book will be a valuable resource not only for students of theatre history but also for any theatre enthusiast.
Author : Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807119921
Total Pages : 1064 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (199 download)
Download or read book A Writer's Companion written by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1995-09-01 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Writer’s Companion, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., has drawn on his years of accumulated wisdom—as well as the advice of some fifty prominent writers from various fields—to put together in a single volume a vast array of information. Organized in such a way as to make it exceptionally easy to use, and enhanced by Rubin’s graceful and witty prose, A Writer’s Companion will merit a place on the desk of every serious wordsmith. It is also a book that will bring endless hours of pleasure to anyone who enjoys reading simply for the sake of gaining new knowledge. As Casey Stengel said, “You could look it up.”
Author : Randall Stevenson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780191588846
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (888 download)
Download or read book The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 12: The Last of England? written by Randall Stevenson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-11-10 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Literature in the 1960s soon threw off its post-war weariness and the tepid influences of the previous decade. New voices, new visions, and new commitments profoundly reshaped writing during the 60s, and throughout the rest of the century. Drama thrived on its rapidly rebuilt foundations. New freedoms of style and form revitalised fiction. Poetry, too, gradually recovered the variety and inventiveness of earlier years. As well as comprehensively charting these changes in the literary field, Randall Stevenson persuasively pinpoints their origins in the historical, social, and intellectual pressures of the times. Literary developments are revealingly related to the wider evolution and profound changes in English experience in the late twentieth-century to shadows of war and loss of empire; declining influences of class; shifting relations between the genders; emergent minority and counter-cultures; and the broadening democratization of contemporary life in general. Analyses of the rise of literary theory, of publishing and the book trade, and of the pervasive influences of modernism and postmodernism contribute further to an impressively thorough, insightful description of writing in the later twentieth-century a literary period Stevenson shows to be far more imaginative and exciting than has yet been recognised. Lucid, accessible, and engaging, this volume of the Oxford English Literary History presents a unique illumination of its age - one we have lived through, but are only just beginning to understand. The first full account of its period, it will set the agenda for discussion of late twentieth-century literature for many years to come.
Author : Roger Baker
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814712541
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Drag written by Roger Baker and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise history of the drag tradition—from 13th century to today Men have been dressing as women on stage for hundreds of years, dating back to the thirteenth century when the Church forbade the appearance of female actors but condoned that of men and boys disguised as the opposite sex. Forms of transvestism can be traced back to the dawn of theatre and are found in all corners of the world, notably in China and Japan. In recent years, of course, drag has witnessed a dramatic and widespread revival. Newsday recently observed, People are talking about all those fabulous heterosexual film idols who now can't seem to wait to get tarted up in drag and do their screen bits as fishnet queens. Drawing on a cinematic tradition popularized by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot, Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie) and Robin Williams (Mrs. Doubtfire) have each delighted mainstream audiences with their portrayals of women. Even former drag queens have experience newfound fame; witness the recent popularity of the late Divine, renowned for her oddly compelling appearances in underground John Waters films. Music, too, has been profoundly influenced by drag sensibility, from David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and the Rocky Horror Picture Show to Boy George and RuPaul (the self-proclaimed Supermodel of the World). Tracing drag tradition from the Golden Age of stage transvestism during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I in England to the current quasi-drag inclinations of American grunge bands, Drag is an entertaining overview of this popular and complex medium.
Author : Peter Buse
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719057229
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Drama + Theory written by Peter Buse and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Buse illuminates the relationship between modern British drama and contemporary critical and cultural theory. He demonstrates how theory allows fresh insights into familiar drama, pairing well-known plays with classic theory texts. The theoretical text is more than applied to the dramatic text, instead Buse shows how they reflect on each other. Drama + Theory provides not only provides new interpretations of popular plays, but of the theoretical texts as well.
Author : Philip Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521479622
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (796 download)
Download or read book The Royal Court Theatre and the Modern Stage written by Philip Roberts and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the leading forum of the modern stage; includes Foreword by former Director of the Royal Court, Max Stafford-Clark.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Literary Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Theatre Notebook written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Plays International written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard H. Palmer
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Contemporary British History Play written by Richard H. Palmer and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1998-06-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British drama since 1956 has been particularly innovative. This volume investigates how recent British history plays reflect the methods and values of New History, in contrast to traditional biographical dramas that depict the lives of great men of the past. More than 50 British playwrights are discussed, including John Osborne, John Arden, Edward Bond, Robert Bolt, Pam Gems, Howard Brenton, Caryl Churchill, Howard Barker, and Peter Shaffer. Historical drama consistently displays the sense of history prevalent when it was written: a 17th century quest for precedent and analogy; the affirmation of cosmic order in the 18th century; the Romantic search for manifestations of spiritual purpose; in Victorian times, a demonstration that humans control events; and the early 20th century promise, emulating science, to present the facts objectively. Contemporary British history plays, however, demonstrate different agendas for history itself. Marxist plays illustrate a historical dialect leading to the emergence of Communism. Oppositional history takes the point of view of the disenfranchised, the defeated, or the oppressed. Social histories refocus attention away from movers and shakers onto groups of small players. Feminist historians expose the biases of a male dominated hegemony and confront the role of gender in history. Deconstructionists debunk our confidence in historical metanarratives. Postmodernism uses anachronism and stylistic eclecticism to emphasize parallels in different historical periods or to relate historically defined metaphors and rituals to modern experience. Both playwrights and critics confront the implications of the idea that history is constructed and not simply found, and new approaches to history demand innovations in the staging and structuring of plays.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Choice written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1070 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on all aspects of Shakespeare studies, including criticism of the plays and poems, theater history, Shakespeare pedagogy, the history of Shakespeare as an institution, and studies in editing, text, canon, and bibliography. Also contains review-essays on Royal Shakespeare Company and other significant stage and film productions around the world.
Author : Charles A. Carpenter
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Modern Drama Scholarship and Criticism 1981-1990 written by Charles A. Carpenter and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selective list of publications for the period, offering some 25,200 entries (no annotations) arranged by nationality and linguistic groups. Most entries concern literary currents in drama since the last third of the 19th century, playwrights who lived at least part of their lives in the 20th century, noted directors, and performance theory. For students and scholars of modern dramatic literature. While annual supplements of recent publications appear in the journal Modern Drama, new compilers took a publication date of 1991 as their starting point for listings, leaving some 2,000 items collected after 1992 appearing only in this volume. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : David Hare
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 140817801X
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Pravda written by David Hare and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Savagely bitchy and often wildly funny" (Sheridan Morley, Punch) Pravda (which means "truth") is a comedy of excess which, for the first time puts modern Fleet Street on the stage. "Pravda is an epic comedy - part The Front Page, part Arturo Ui - in which a press baron resembling Rupert Murdoch...does battle with over 30 characters as he conquers Fleet Street journalism and by implication, liberal England's soul." (Frank Rich, New York Times) This is Howard Brenton's and David Hare's first collaboration since Brassneck in 1973. It was premiered at The National Theatre in spring 1985 and awarded the London Standard Best Play Award, the City Limits Best Play Award and the Plays and Players Best Play Award. "A sulphorous and crackling entertainment" (Observer)
Author : British Council
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 914 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book British Book News written by British Council and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes no. 53a: British wartime books for young people.
