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Understanding John Guare

Author : William Demastes
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611177391
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Understanding John Guare written by William Demastes and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of an award-winning playwright known for unconventional blending of genres John Guare, one of the most innovative and influential contemporary American playwrights of the last sixty years, is best known for such works as House of Blue Leaves, winner of an Obie Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play, and four Tony Awards, and Six Degrees of Separation, recipient of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play and the Olivier Best Play Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. In Understanding John Guare, William W. Demastes provides a concise biography and analyzes the playwright's career from his earliest works produced off-off Broadway in the 1960s to his most recent Broadway play, A Free Man of Color, a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Often compared to his contemporaries Sam Shepard and David Mamet, who have distinctive voices tied to their mastery of realistic, idiomatic American English, Guare has a style that is perhaps more varied, Demastes speculates, the result of his formal training in theater. After earning a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University, Guare earned an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama. He then polished his theater craft in New York City during the exciting and turbulent 1960s, breaking from realist conventions and creating an unlikely blend of comedy, burlesque, stand-up comedy, and absurdly incongruous plotlines. The result has been a theater of surprise that is rich in stage action and experimentally invigorating. Demastes examines Guare's tools and techniques such as mixing serious with comic, creating characters who break into song and dance, inserting stand-up comedy routines, and drawing from the most absurd incongruities of everyday life. In doing so, Guare has created plays about the best and worst of humanity, about lost souls, and about delusional ideals.

The House of Blue Leaves

Author : John Guare
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573610288
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis The House of Blue Leaves by : John Guare

Download or read book The House of Blue Leaves written by John Guare and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1971 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artie Shaugnessy is a songwriter with visions of glory. Toiling by day as a zoo-keeper, he suffers in seedy lounges by night, plying his wares at piano bars in Queens, New York where he lives with his wife, Bananas. Who is. Much to the chagrin of Artie's downstairs mistress, Bunny Flingus who'll sleep with him anytime but refuses to cook until they are married. On the day the Pope is making his first visit to the city, Artie's son Ronny goes AWOL from Fort Dix stowing a home made-bomb intended to blow up the Pope in Yankee Stadium. Also arriving are Artie's old school chum, now a successful Hollywood producer, Billy Einhorn with starlet girlfriend in tow, who holds the key to Artie's dreams of getting out of Queens and away from the life he so despises. But like many dreams, this promise of glory evaporates amid the chaos of ordinary lives.

A Free Man of Color

Author : John Guare
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802145663
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis A Free Man of Color by : John Guare

Download or read book A Free Man of Color written by John Guare and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Guare’s new play is astonishing, raucous and panoramic. A Free Man of Color is set in boisterous New Orleans prior to the historic Louisiana Purchase. Before law and order took hold, and class, racial and political lines were drawn, New Orleans was a carnival of beautiful women, flowing wine and pleasure for the taking. At the center of this Dionysian world is the mulatto Jacques Cornet, who commands men, seduces women and preens like a peacock. But, it is 1801 and the map of New Orleans is about to be redrawn. The Louisiana Purchase brings American rule and racial segregation to the chaotic, colorful world of Jacques Cornet and all that he represents, turning the tables on freedom and liberty.

A Study Guide for John Guare's "A Free Man of Color"

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410392651
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis A Study Guide for John Guare's "A Free Man of Color" by : Gale, Cengage Learning

Download or read book A Study Guide for John Guare's "A Free Man of Color" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for John Guare's "A Free Man of Color", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama for Students for all of your research needs.

A Few Stout Individuals

Author : John Guare
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802140029
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book A Few Stout Individuals written by John Guare and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest work from award-winning playwright John Guare, author of House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation, addresses ideas of history and memory, fame and ignominy, reason and insanity with his trademark Guare imagination. In a Fifth Avenue brownstone in 1880s New York, Ulysses S. Grant is penniless, dying of throat cancer, and attempting to finish his memoirs while he's cajoled and pestered by everyone from his wife and children to his publisher Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) and, via his drugged hallucinations, the emperor of Japan. Although the memoirs are eventually completed, the audience is left questioning their accuracy and, ultimately, the authenticity of history itself.

A Study Guide for John Guare's "Six Degrees of Separation" (1993, lit-to-film)

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 141039252X
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis A Study Guide for John Guare's "Six Degrees of Separation" (1993, lit-to-film) by : Gale, Cengage Learning

Download or read book A Study Guide for John Guare's "Six Degrees of Separation" (1993, lit-to-film) written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for John Guare's "Six Degrees of Separation" (1993, lit-to-film), excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama for Students for all of your research needs.

A Study Guide for John Guare's "House of Blue Leaves"

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410348458
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis A Study Guide for John Guare's "House of Blue Leaves" by : Gale, Cengage Learning

Download or read book A Study Guide for John Guare's "House of Blue Leaves" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for John Guare's "House of Blue Leaves," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

A Study Guide for John Guare's "Six Degrees of Separation"

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410358119
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis A Study Guide for John Guare's "Six Degrees of Separation" by : Gale, Cengage Learning

Download or read book A Study Guide for John Guare's "Six Degrees of Separation" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for John Guare's "Six Degrees of Separation," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Marco Polo Sings a Solo

Author : John Guare
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822207337
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis Marco Polo Sings a Solo by : John Guare

Download or read book Marco Polo Sings a Solo written by John Guare and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1977 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The time is 1999, the place an island off the coast of Norway. Stony McBride, a young movie director and adopted son of an aging Hollywood star, is writing a film about Marco Polo, in which, it is hoped, his father will make a comeback.

Kissing Sweet, and A Day for Surprises

Author : John Guare
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822202769
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (27 download)

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Book Synopsis Kissing Sweet, and A Day for Surprises by : John Guare

Download or read book Kissing Sweet, and A Day for Surprises written by John Guare and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1971 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: KISSING SWEET. First presented on New York's Channel 13 (Educational Television) as part of FOUL!, a special program on pollution and conservation, this madcap spoof of TV advertising has been specially adapted and expanded by the auth

Chaucer in Rome

Author : John Guare
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822218401
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (184 download)

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Book Synopsis Chaucer in Rome by : John Guare

Download or read book Chaucer in Rome written by John Guare and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2002 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: In the Holy Year of 2000 in Rome, Matt has learned that his painting has given him a curable form of cancer. In return for survival, he must abandon paint for a new artistic medium. Ultimately he chooses to dress in religious garb, video

Muzeeka

Author : John Guare
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822207962
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Muzeeka written by John Guare and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1968 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: As the New York Times outlines, It is done almost as a comedy, yet it isn't quite. Jack Argue is the 'hero,' the middle-class man from Connecticut who works for Muzeeka, a piped-music company that inflicts its bland tunes on all America. He is the man who has made it, who tries to assuage his conscience through hypocritical verbiage. There is a series of episodes-Argue chanting a hymn to a penny, Argue loving his wife, Argue loving a prostitute, Argue fighting in Vietnam. If he could have been wherever he chose to be, he says, he would have chosen to be an Etruscan, one of those ancient people who came and went 'a million years ago,' 'a whole civilization danced out of the earth.' Mr. Guare has written with thought, craftsmanship and beauty. His allusions are poetic-the traffic lights, for instance, that make the streets go from grass to blood.

Four Baboons Adoring the Sun

Author : John Guare
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822210344
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Four Baboons Adoring the Sun written by John Guare and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary tragicomedy of race, class and manners. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

John Guare’s Theatre

Author : Robert J. Andreach
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144380391X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book John Guare’s Theatre written by Robert J. Andreach and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1960s to the present day, John Guare’s plays have ranged from one-act to cyclic, realistic to surrealistic, naturalistic to experimental, and tragic to comic dramas. This study’s approach to the cornucopia the playwright himself provided when in an interview he gave a fundamental aesthetic principle of his craft. Like a person—and Guare’s plays develop the personal as well as the artistic self—a play must be grounded in reality; only then can it soar. The ground is traditional theatre with characters, no matter how larger than life they can be, and plot, no matter how illogical it can be. The soaring is in interrupting the action with monological narratives and musical interludes, bringing characters back from the dead, and having the action take hairpin turns into a mixture of genres and styles, modes and tones. In verbal and visual images, the flight invokes works by authors as varied as Aeschylus and Whitman, Dante and Feydeau, Verdi and Romberg. Soaring from ground to new ground, the theatre creates the transmission of the American heritage in Lake Hollywood, an idealism corrupted by a fraudulent American Dream in Lydie Breeze, and the recovery of the past in A Few Stout Individuals. As Guare said about his plays: they “interconnect.”

Six Degrees of Separation

Author : John Guare
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679734813
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Six Degrees of Separation written by John Guare and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1990-11-14 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this soaring and deeply provacative tragicomedy of race, class, and manners, John Guare has created the msot important American play in years. Six Degrees of Separation is one of those rare works that capture both the supercharged pulse of our present era and the deepest and most mysterious movements of the human heart. Six Degrees of Separation won the 1990 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, as well as the Hull Warriner Award and the Obie.

The Black Comedy of John Guare

Author : Gene A. Plunka
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874137637
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (376 download)

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Book Synopsis The Black Comedy of John Guare by : Gene A. Plunka

Download or read book The Black Comedy of John Guare written by Gene A. Plunka and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first full-length study of Guare's theater, will make his plays more accessible through an examination of the often unnerving type of black comedy that makes his plays work.".

Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context [4 volumes]

Author : Linda De Roche
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2067 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context [4 volumes] written by Linda De Roche and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 2067 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume reference work surveys American literature from the early 20th century to the present day, featuring a diverse range of American works and authors and an expansive selection of primary source materials. Bringing useful and engaging material into the classroom, this four-volume set covers more than a century of American literary history—from 1900 to the present. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context profiles authors and their works and provides overviews of literary movements and genres through which readers will understand the historical, cultural, and political contexts that have shaped American writing. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context provides wide coverage of authors, works, genres, and movements that are emblematic of the diversity of modern America. Not only are major literary movements represented, such as the Beats, but this work also highlights the emergence and development of modern Native American literature, African American literature, and other representative groups that showcase the diversity of American letters. A rich selection of primary documents and background material provides indispensable information for student research.