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Book Synopsis Wesker's Comedies by : Arnold Wesker
Download or read book Wesker's Comedies written by Arnold Wesker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Wedding Feast an idealistic, altruistic shoe manufacturer arrives at an employee’s wedding, with disastrous consequences. One More Ride on the Merry-Go-Round features a comic plot involving academics who get high on a hash birthday cake, a recalcitrant daughter, and the appearance of an illegitimate son who is a magician. In Groupie 61-year-old Mattie Beancourt is shocked to discover her idol, the famous painter Mark Gorman, living alone in near poverty. She is sunny, he is curmudgeonly and the impact of their friendship is startling. Set against a scene of defiant old age, The Old Ones examines the eccentric rituals of old age and plays out the conflict between the optimistic and pessimistic spirit.
Book Synopsis Wesker's Domestic Plays by : Arnold Wesker
Download or read book Wesker's Domestic Plays written by Arnold Wesker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-07 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Friends (1970), Esther is diagnosed with leukaemia, causing her friends to reassess their working-class identity, their imagined achievements as well as their own mortality. Bluey (1993) is a play about repressed memory resurfacing and three imagined futures that the protagonist cannot muster the courage to confront. In Men Die Women Survive (1990) a trio of estranged wives gather around the dinner table. As they conduct a post-mortem on their failed relationships a tale of betrayal and revenge emerges. Telling the story of a 44-year-old actress Gertie and her influence on Sam, a black teenager working as a car-park attendant, Wild Spring (1992) explores acting as a metaphor for the false images of ourselves with which we fall in love.
Book Synopsis Wesker's Historical Plays by : Arnold Wesker
Download or read book Wesker's Historical Plays written by Arnold Wesker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented here are four epic history plays from Sir Arnold Wesker, which touch on the age-old conflicts caused by religion, science and the Establishment. Set in the Jewish ghetto of Venice, 1563, Shylock (1972) is based on the same three stories from which Shakespeare wove his play, The Merchant of Venice. The core plot remains, but the relationships and characterisations are very different. Caritas (1980) is at once the story of a monastic young woman in the fourteenth century but also a metaphor for the wrong decisions which can imprison us for life. In 1144 a young boy was found brutally murdered in Thorpe Wood. The Jews were accused of slaughtering a Christian child touse his blood for Passover and mock the crucifixion. Blood Libel (1991) investigates a calumny which persists to this day. Meanwhile Longitude (2002) tells of the eighteenth-century race to accurately measure longitude – and claim a £20,000 reward from Parliament.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Comedies of Love by : Karen Bamford
Download or read book Shakespeare's Comedies of Love written by Karen Bamford and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borrowing its title from renowned scholar Alexander Leggatt's landmark 1974 study, Shakespeare's Comedies of Love is a tribute to a critic who has shaped the way the world understands Shakespeare and his comedies. To help celebrate his distinguished career as a teacher and scholar, this collection of essays presents a wide range of new work on the Bard's comedies. The contributors cover diverse areas of inquiry, including the use of the comedies as a source of women's empowerment in nineteenth-century America; civic drama in Elizabethan London; male anxiety about women in the comedies; anti-Semitism in The Merchant of Venice; as well as some key productions of Shakespeare's comedies. Rich in detail and broad in scope, Shakespeare's Comedies of Love is a celebration of Leggatt's distinguished career, and an enduring collection of work on the world's most famous writer.
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Writers and their Works by : Christopher Riches
Download or read book A Dictionary of Writers and their Works written by Christopher Riches and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 1431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.
Download or read book The Writers Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arnold Wesker written by Arnold Wesker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad reference on London Jewish playwright Wesker (b. 1932) and his work, considering the politics in his plays, biographical aspects, historical perspectives, critical approaches, and the critical response. The 18 original essays discuss the failure and promise of socialism as personal contact in Roots, writing for radio in Yardsdale, the modernity of The Kitchen, women in his later plays, and other topics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Arnold Wesker written by Reade W. Dornan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only collection of essays on one of Britain's Angry Young Men, this book contains discussions of most of Wesker's published plays with an emphasis on the more recent works. Essays reevaluate the plays that made Wesker a household name in Britain (the Trilogy, The Kitchen , and Chips with Everything). Clive Barker, co-director of Centre 42, gives a fresh account of that movement, and playwright Paul Levitt provides a previously unrecorded history of Caritas, Blood Libel, and Shylock. A personal profile of Wesker by novelist Margaret Drabble is reprinted from an earlier article. Original essays cover the theory and practice of theatre-Wesker's in-text stage directions, British television's adaptation of his plays, and an actor's and a director's perspectives on working with the playwright. Major international Weskerian critics are assembled here: Klaus Peter Mÿller and Heiner Zimmermann from Germany; Rossana Bonadei, Angela Locatelli, and Alessandra Marzola from Italy; Keith Gore, Glenda Leeming, Martin Priestman, Jeremy Ridgman, Margaret Rose, and Robert Wilcher from Great Britain; Menakshi Ponnuswami from India; Robert Gross, Kimball King, and Robert Skloot from the United States. These essays take a wide range of critical approaches from an exploration of gender, to semiotics, biography, and the New Historicism. This is the most comprehensive collection of criticism on Arnold Wesker to date. Every major Weskerian scholar writing in English has contributed a piece to this casebook. Originating in Germany, Italy, Great Britain, India, and the United States, their essays create an international cultural context for Wesker's plays. They also position his work among his contemporaries, in his historical era, and in the political and theatrical environment that defines his world. Furthermore, they form a biographical profile of Wesker, often giving us firsthand accounts of turning points in his career. Finally, some essays evaluate and interpret the major plays, dissecting and scrutinizing the formal elements that make them distinct. Their critical approaches are varied in that they make liberal use of semiotics, Bakhtinian and communication theory, cultural studies, and traditional readings. Their contributions compose a multi-faceted view of Wesker's life and work setting out fresh arguments for all his plays.
Book Synopsis A Companion to British-Jewish Theatre Since the 1950s by : Jeanette R. Malkin
Download or read book A Companion to British-Jewish Theatre Since the 1950s written by Jeanette R. Malkin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of its kind, this companion to British-Jewish theatre brings a neglected dimension in the work of many prominent British theatre-makers to the fore. Its structure reflects the historical development of British-Jewish theatre from the 1950s onwards, beginning with an analysis of the first generation of writers that now forms the core of post-war British drama (including Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter and Arnold Wesker) and moving on to significant thematic force-fields and faultlines such as the Holocaust, antisemitism and Israel/Palestine. The book also covers the new generation of British-Jewish playwrights, with a special emphasis on the contribution of women writers and the role of particular theatres in the development of British-Jewish theatre, as well as TV drama. Included in the book are fascinating interviews with a set of significant theatre practitioners working today, including Ryan Craig, Patrick Marber, John Nathan, Julia Pascal and Nicholas Hytner. The companion addresses, not only aesthetic and ideological concerns, but also recent transformations with regard to institutional contexts and frameworks of cultural policies.
Book Synopsis Understanding Arnold Wesker by : Robert Wilcher
Download or read book Understanding Arnold Wesker written by Robert Wilcher and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Humor in Twentieth-Century British Literature by : Don Lee Fred Nilsen
Download or read book Humor in Twentieth-Century British Literature written by Don Lee Fred Nilsen and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2000-03-30 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes humor in literary works by British authors of the 20th century and provides extensive bibliographical information.
Book Synopsis Wesker on Theatre by : Arnold Wesker
Download or read book Wesker on Theatre written by Arnold Wesker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-08 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wesker On Theatre is a collection of essays by one of Britain's most well-known, prolific and controversial writers, which explores his thoughts on drama and the theatre gained from a writing career that spans fifty years. Wesker brings together for the first time an assortment of theatre pieces exploring such subjects as The DNA of a Play; The Nature of Dialogue; The Nature of Development; Can Playwrights be Taught to Write Plays; Interpretation - To Explain or Impose, and many others that attempt to elucidate the shifts of thought he has negotiated throughout his long career. Often controversial, Wesker On Theatre is a challenging and thought-provoking volume.
Book Synopsis Wesker, the Playwright by : Glenda Leeming
Download or read book Wesker, the Playwright written by Glenda Leeming and published by London ; New York : Methuen. This book was released on 1983 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis English Literature by : Martin Stephen
Download or read book English Literature written by Martin Stephen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now appearing in its third edition, Martin Stephen's classic text and course companion to English literature has been thoroughly revised and updated, taking account of the changes which have occurred in the subject since publication of the second edition.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare Survey: Volume 56, Shakespeare and Comedy by : Peter Holland
Download or read book Shakespeare Survey: Volume 56, Shakespeare and Comedy written by Peter Holland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published with academic researchers and graduate students in mind, this volume of the 'Shakespeare Survey' presents a number of contributions on the theme of Shakespeare's comedies, as well as the comedy in Shakespeare's other works.
Book Synopsis Modernity Britain by : David Kynaston
Download or read book Modernity Britain written by David Kynaston and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Austerity Britain and Family Britain, the third and fulcrum volume in David Kynaston's landmark social history of post-war Britain.
Book Synopsis Notes on Arnold Wesker's Roots by : Anthony Maxwell Aylwin
Download or read book Notes on Arnold Wesker's Roots written by Anthony Maxwell Aylwin and published by Methuen Publishing. This book was released on 1975 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
