The Presence Of The Past In Modern American Drama

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The Presence of the Past in Modern American Drama

Author : Patricia R. Schroeder
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838633328
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book The Presence of the Past in Modern American Drama written by Patricia R. Schroeder and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams, who, within the overall framework of formal realism, reshaped dramatic form to depict a past that interacts with the present in complex and often surprising ways. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Award in Modern Drama.

American Drama and the Postmodern

Author :
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621969843
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book American Drama and the Postmodern written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Facts on File Companion to American Drama

Author : Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438129661
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Book Synopsis The Facts on File Companion to American Drama by : Jackson R. Bryer

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.

Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition

Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817308377
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition written by William W. Demastes and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1996-08-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconsiders realism on the American stage by addressing the great variety and richness of the plays that form the American theatre canon.

Masterpieces of 20th-Century American Drama

Author : Susan C. W. Abbotson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313027234
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Masterpieces of 20th-Century American Drama by : Susan C. W. Abbotson

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.

Encyclopedia of American Drama

Author : Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438140762
Total Pages : 2466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Drama written by Jackson R. Bryer and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 2466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to American classics such as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Thornton Wilder's Our Town to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.

Nostalgia in Jewish-American Theatre and Film, 1979-2004

Author : Ben Furnish
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820461977
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (619 download)

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Book Synopsis Nostalgia in Jewish-American Theatre and Film, 1979-2004 by : Ben Furnish

Download or read book Nostalgia in Jewish-American Theatre and Film, 1979-2004 written by Ben Furnish and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nostalgia, a bittersweet yearning for the past, is an important element in Jewish-American performances of the late twentieth century. Numerous plays and films of this time use nostalgia to engage Jewish, including Yiddish, cultural themes and images. Nostalgia offers audiences a window through which to examine past and current social changes. These include American Jews' departure from Europe to America, the city for the suburbs, Yiddish for English, as well as the civil rights, women's, peace, and gay and lesbian movements, and other transformations. These performances illustrate how theatre and film transmit culture from generation to generation and between one ethnic community and the wider American scene.

The Cambridge History of American Theatre

Author : Don B. Wilmeth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521651790
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of American Theatre written by Don B. Wilmeth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of the authoritative, multi-volume Cambridge History of American Theatre, first published in 1999, begins in the post-Civil War period and traces the development of American theatre up to 1945. It covers all aspects of theatre from plays and playwrights, through actors and acting, to theatre groups and directors. Topics examined include vaudeville and popular entertainment, European influences, theatre in and beyond New York, the rise of the Little Theatre movement, changing audiences, modernism, the Federal Theatre movement, scenography, stagecraft, and architecture. Contextualising chapters explore the role of theatre within the context of American social and cultural history, and the role of American theatre in relation to theatre in Europe and beyond. This definitive history of American theatre includes contributions from the following distinguished academics - Thomas Postlewait, John Frick, Tice L. Miller, Ronald Wainscott, Brenda Murphy, Mark Fearnow, Brooks McNamara, Thomas Riis, Daniel J. Watermeier, Mary C. Henderson, and Warren Kliewer.

The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights

Author : Brenda Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139825615
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights written by Brenda Murphy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the work of women playwrights throughout the history of the American theatre, from the early pioneers to contemporary feminists. Each chapter introduces the reader to the work of one or more playwrights and to a way of thinking about plays. Together they cover significant writers such as Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Lillian Hellman, Sophie Treadwell, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Megan Terry, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Wendy Wasserstein, Marsha Norman, Beth Henley and Maria Irene Fornes. Playwrights are discussed in the context of topics such as early comedy and melodrama, feminism and realism, the Harlem Renaissance, the feminist resurgence of the 1970s and feminist dramatic theory. A detailed chronology and illustrations enhance the volume, which also includes bibliographical essays on recent criticism and on African-American women playwrights before 1930.

Student Companion to Eugene O'Neill

Author : Steven F. Bloom Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313049092
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Student Companion to Eugene O'Neill written by Steven F. Bloom Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-06-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugene O'Neill is the only American dramatist ever to have received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He wrote over 50 plays; a number are virtually unknown by the general public; several are considered classics of the American stage; all of them demonstrate, in one way or another, how O'Neill challenged the conventional boundaries of the drama of his time and thereby paved the way for modern American theatre. This volume will provide guides to eight of O'Neill's plays that are most often studied in schools and colleges: The Hairy Ape, Anna Christie, The Emperor Jones, Desire Under the Elms, Ah, Wilderness!, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey Into Night, and A Moon for the Misbegotten. More than almost any other author in any fictional genre, O'Neill's works are highly autobiographical. The love/hate relationships he had with the members of his own family resonate throughout his dramatic works. The son of an alcoholic and a morphine addict, he struggled with chemical dependency throughout his life, but determined to be an artist or nothing, he eventually gave up drinking and fulfilled his artistic ambitions, transforming the traumatic experiences of his life into compelling drama. O'Neill's drama provides insights into the complexities of human behavior and raises questions about the forces, both external and internal, that shape human lives.

Versions of Heroism in Modern American Drama

Author : Julie Adam
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349213632
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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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.

Memory in Play

Author : A. Favorini
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230617166
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Memory in Play written by A. Favorini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-12-08 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study examines the role of memory in the history of theatre and drama. Favorini analyzes issues of memory in self-construction, collective memory, the clash of memory and history and even explores what the work of cognitive scientists can teach us about brain function and our response to drama.

Reader's Guide to Literature in English

Author : Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135314179
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Reader's Guide to Literature in English written by Mark Hawkins-Dady and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.

Self and Space in the Theater of Susan Glaspell

Author : Noelia Hernando-Real
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786488328
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Book Synopsis Self and Space in the Theater of Susan Glaspell by : Noelia Hernando-Real

Download or read book Self and Space in the Theater of Susan Glaspell written by Noelia Hernando-Real and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founding member of the Provincetown Players, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, best-selling novelist and short story writer Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) was a great contributor to American literature. An exploration of eleven plays written between the years 1915 and 1943, this critical study focuses on one of Glaspell's central themes, the interplay between place and identity. This study examines the means Glaspell employs to engage her characters in proxemical and verbal dialectics with the forces of place that turn them into victims of location. Of particular interest are her characters' attempts to escape the influence of territoriality and shape identities of their own.

Agitated States

Author : Anthony Kubiak
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472068111
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Agitated States written by Anthony Kubiak and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American history as theater, and theater as the heart of American life

Winter's Tales

Author : Kathleen George
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874139167
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Winter's Tales written by Kathleen George and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winter's Tales tackles the question of whether narrative and drama are as different from each other as some scholars have assumed. By examining everything from voice and tense to "scene and summary," George, a theater professor and novelist, analyzes the many choices a writer has when framing a story. She addresses narrative theoretical ground before focusing on contemporary plays that are "novelistic." She finishes the study by examining the problems of adaptation from novel to stage. Her account is-by way of its essayistic style-personal, at times a writer's journal of reading and writing discoveries. In Winter's Tales, George demonstrates, among other things, the ways the diegetic is evident in the very content of frame plays and divided plays: she distinguishes between kinds of memory plays by cataloguing the possible stances of the narrator: she also covers subjects like multiple narration, and she gives accounts of the epic, dramatic, and lyric solutions to adapting novels. Kathleen George is a Professor in the Theatre Arts Department at the University of Pittsburgh.

The American Stage

Author : Ron Engle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521412384
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book The American Stage written by Ron Engle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-05-06 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the economic and social forces which shaped American theatre throughout its history. Alone or as a collection, these essays, written by leading theatre historians and critics of the American theatre, will stimulate discussions concerning the traditionally held views of America's theatrical heritage.