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Author : Hedwig Bock
Publisher : Munich : M. Hueber
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Essays on Contemporary American Drama written by Hedwig Bock and published by Munich : M. Hueber. This book was released on 1981 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dorothy Parker
Publisher : Sterling/Main Street
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Essays on Modern American Drama written by Dorothy Parker and published by Sterling/Main Street. This book was released on 1987 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology gathers some of Modern Drama's most distinguished pieces on America's four most important playwrights since Eugene O'Neill: Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, and Sam Shepard. While Parker has chosen these authors "as representative of the main stream of American dramatic tradition," she does not offer a general overview of the plays or playwrights, nor any general orientation to aid the reader. These essays are written by scholars for serious students of American drama. The majority of the essays concentrate on a single play, and while they appeared decades ago, all were major articles in the field. Old but solid, they should still be of interest to students and scholars alike.
Author : Marc Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780801856303
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (563 download)
Download or read book The Other American Drama written by Marc Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays provides an alternative to the accepted account of the development of American drama. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Drew Eisenhauer
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786463910
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Intertextuality in American Drama written by Drew Eisenhauer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new essays in this collection, on such diverse writers as Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, Maurine Dallas Watkins, Sophie Treadwell, and Washington Irving, fill an important conceptual gap. The essayists offer numerous approaches to intertextuality: the influence of the poetry of romanticism and Shakespeare and of histories and novels, ideological and political discourses on American playwrights, unlikely connections between such writers as Miller and Wilder, the problems of intertexts in translation, the evolution in historical and performance contexts of the same tale, and the relationships among feminism, the drama of the courtroom, and the drama of the stage. Intertextuality has been an under-explored area in studies of dramatic and performance texts. The innovative findings of these scholars testify to the continuing vitality of research in American drama and performance.
Author : Robert J. Andreach
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761864016
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre written by Robert J. Andreach and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book refutes the claim that tragedy is no longer a vital and relevant part of contemporary American theatre. Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre examines plays by multiple contemporary playwrights and compares them alongside the works of America’s major twentieth-century tragedians: Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams. The book argues that tragedy is not only present in contemporary American theatre, but issues from an expectation fundamental to American culture: the pressure on characters to create themselves. Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre concludes that tragedy is vital and relevant, though not always in the Aristotelian model, the standard for traditional evaluation.
Author : Konstantinos Blatanis
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838640081
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Popular Culture Icons in Contemporary American Drama written by Konstantinos Blatanis and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discussion addresses the task of theater images in a cultural field where the real is mistaken for its reflection, originality constantly played against seriality, at a moment when simulacra, clones, and emulations of selves and texts become firmly established as the norm. The accommodation of pop icons on stage and the results this framing yields constitute this work's primary interests and aims."--Jacket.
Author : Christopher Innes
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408134810
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights written by Christopher Innes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unrivalled in its coverage of recent work and writers, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights surveys and analyses the breadth, vitality and development of theatrical work to emerge from America over the last fifty years. This authoritative guide leads you through the work of 25 major contemporary American playwrights, discussing more than 140 plays in detail. Written by a team of 25 eminent international scholars, each chapter provides: · a biographical introduction to the playwright's work; · a survey and concise analysis of the writer's most important plays; · a discussion of their style, dramaturgical concerns and critical reception; · a bibliography of published plays and a select list of critical works. Among the many Tony, Obie and Pulitzer prize-winning playwrights included are Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Suzan-Lori Parks, August Wilson, Paula Vogel and Neil LaBute. The abundance of work analysed enables fresh, illuminating conclusions to be drawn about the development of contemporary American playwriting.
Author : Lynda Hart
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472063895
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (638 download)
Download or read book Making a Spectacle written by Lynda Hart and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first scholarly collection to discuss the intersection of feminism and dramatic theory
Author : Jeffrey H. Richards
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199731497
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of American Drama written by Jeffrey H. Richards and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the history of American drama from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It describes origins of early republican drama and its evolution during the pre-war and post-war periods. It traces the emergence of different types of American drama including protest plays, reform drama, political drama, experimental drama, urban plays, feminist drama and realist plays. This volume also analyzes the works of some of the most notable American playwrights including Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller and those written by women dramatists.
Author : C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521794107
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (941 download)
Download or read book Modern American Drama, 1945-2000 written by C. W. E. Bigsby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-21 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition of Modern American Drama completes the survey and comes up to 2000.
Author : David Krasner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405137347
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama written by David Krasner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion provides an original and authoritative surveyof twentieth-century American drama studies, written by some of thebest scholars and critics in the field. Balances consideration of canonical material with discussion ofworks by previously marginalized playwrights Includes studies of leading dramatists, such as TennesseeWilliams, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill and Gertrude Stein Allows readers to make new links between particular plays andplaywrights Examines the movements that framed the century, such as theHarlem Renaissance, lesbian and gay drama, and the soloperformances of the 1980s and 1990s Situates American drama within larger discussions aboutAmerican ideas and culture
Author : Sarah Ruhl
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374711976
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write written by Sarah Ruhl and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write is an incisive, idiosyncratic collection on life and theater from major American playwright Sarah Ruhl. This is a book in which chimpanzees, Chekhov, and child care are equally at home. A vibrant, provocative examination of the possibilities of the theater, it is also a map to a very particular artistic sensibility, and an unexpected guide for anyone who has chosen an artist's life. Sarah Ruhl is a mother of three and one of America's best-known playwrights. She has written a stunningly original book of essays whose concerns range from the most minimal and personal subjects to the most encompassing matters of art and culture. The titles themselves speak to the volume's uniqueness: "On lice," "On sleeping in the theater," "On motherhood and stools (the furniture kind)," "Greek masks and Bell's palsy."
Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN 13 : 9781559361873
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (618 download)
Download or read book The Ground on which I Stand written by August Wilson and published by Theatre Communications Grou. This book was released on 2001 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August Wilson's radical and provocative call to arms.
Author : Deborah R. Geis
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472066230
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (662 download)
Download or read book Approaching the Millennium written by Deborah R. Geis and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading critics, scholars, and theater practictioners consider the most talked-about play of the 1990s
Author : Sandra G. Shannon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350153648
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1980s written by Sandra G. Shannon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Decades of Modern American Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major playwrights and their plays to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: David Mamet: Edmond (1982), Glengarry Glen Ross (1984), Speed-the-Plow (1988) and Oleanna (1992); David Henry Hwang: Family Devotions (1981), The Sound of a Voice (1983) and M. Butterfly (1988); Maria Irene Fornès: The Danube (1982), Mud (1983) and The Conduct of Life (1985); August Wilson: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1984), Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1984) and Fences (1987).
Author : Philip C. Kolin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135866481
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Contemporary African American Women Playwrights written by Philip C. Kolin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last 50 years, American and World theatre have been challenged and enriched by the rise to prominence of numerous female African American dramatists. Contemporary African American Women Playwrights is the first critical volume to explore the contexts and influences of these writers, and their exploration of black history and identity through a wealth of diverse, courageous and visionary dramas.
Author : Jeanne Marie Colleran
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472066711
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (667 download)
Download or read book Staging Resistance written by Jeanne Marie Colleran and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh perspectives on political theater and its essential contribution to contemporary culture. Focused studies of individual plays complement broad-based discussions of the place of theater in a radically democratic society. This consistently challenging collection describes the art of change confronting the actual processes of change. 17 photos.
