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Author : B. D. Joshi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Major Plays of Barry and Behrman written by B. D. Joshi and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study on two American playwrights.
Author : John Gassner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486410982
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Best Plays of the Early American Theatre, 1787-1911 written by John Gassner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen works from American theater, 1787 1911: "Charles the Second" (1824); "Fashion "(1845); "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852); "The Count of Monte Cristo" (1883); "The Mouse-Trap" (1889); "The Great Divide" (1906); more. Background essay. "
Author : Robert F. Gross
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book S. N. Behrman written by Robert F. Gross and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1992-10-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behrman's prolific career as a Broadway playwright and Hollywood screenwriter spans a period from the 1920s to the mid-1960s. As a writer for popular performance, he had to contend with commercial influences and with producers and directors involved in the dynamics of the collaborative process. Though eminently successful, his works have not received adequate critical scrutiny. His ouevre probably will never be fully determined because of collaboration, numerous rewrites, and the many unpublished and unproduced plays and scripts. Author Robert F. Gross here provides an immensely detailed record of the primary materials, published and unpublished, including plays, filmscripts, fiction, and essays, and of the critical response, both reviews and analytical studies. Focusing on Behrman as a dramatist, Gross has written extensive plot summaries and critical overviews for each of fifty-one plays. Where applicable, full production credits are given for premieres and revivals, and references are made to reviews and commentary about specific productions as well as to the plays in general. The annotated secondary bibliography is divided into chronologically organized sections for reviews and for books, parts of books, and articles. Fully cross-referenced, the material is also accessible through an author index to the secondary bibliography and a general subject index. In an opening appraisal, Gross expresses his appreciation for Behrman, whose high comedies he finds to be informed by a probing ethical conscience and whose goal of scrupulosity he emulates in his own work. This scrupulous playwright is here given his due in a comprehensive sourcebook of value for theatre historians and theatre professionals.
Author : Donald R. Anderson
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809385902
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Shadowed Cocktails written by Donald R. Anderson and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important and prolific playwright, Philip Barry wrote hit plays such as The Philadelphia Story and Holiday. However, he has been largely forgotten and no book-length analysis of his work has appeared in more than forty years. With this book, Donald R. Anderson rescues the playwright from obscurity. Although Barry’s successes were with comedies of manners, he also wrote dramatic and experimental works. Anderson analyzes all of Barry’s plays (twenty-one in total) and questions the traditional characterization of the American playwright’s work. He begins with Barry’s early plays concerning intergenerational tensions and lessons learned from the Great War. Subsequent chapters explore Barry’s preoccupation with fidelity and infidelity, his struggles with his Catholic beliefs, and his investigations into sources of evil and despair. Anderson also looks at the plays of the late 1930s and the 1940s, including the posthumously produced Second Threshold. One chapter is devoted to Barry’s synergistic relationship with Katharine Hepburn: her role in lifting the playwright out of a mid-1930s slump and his role in rescuing her from the label of “box-office poison” with both The Philadelphia Story and the World War II drama Without Love. Anderson places Barry within the context of his times but also shows him drawing on past influences and anticipating theatrical developments of the latter part of the twentieth century. Part cultural history, part literary analysis, Shadowed Cocktails is sure to revitalize interest in this remarkable American author. and his role in rescuing her from the label of 'box-office poison' with both The Philadelphia Story and the World War II drama Without Love.
Author : Gerald M. Berkowitz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317901738
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book American Drama of the Twentieth Century written by Gerald M. Berkowitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Professor Berkowitz studies the diversity of American drama from the stylistic, experimental plays of O'Neill, through verse, tragedy and community theatre, to the theatre of the 1990s. The discussions range through dramatists, plays, genres and themes, with full supporting appendix material. It also examines major dramatists such as Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, Sam Shephard, Tennessee Williams and August Wilson and covers not only the Broadway scene but also off Broadway movements and fringe theatres and such subjects as women's and African-American drama.
Author : Thomas S. Hischak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442256060
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book 100 Greatest American Plays written by Thomas S. Hischak and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre in America has had a rich history—from the first performance of the Lewis Hallam Troupe in September 1752 to the lively shows of modern Broadway. Over the past few centuries, significant works by American playwrights have been produced, including Abie’s Irish Rose, Long Day’s Journey into Night, A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, A Raisin in the Sun, Fences, and Angels in America. In 100 Greatest American Plays, Thomas S. Hischak provides an engaging discussion of the best stage productions to come out of the United States. Each play is discussed in the context of its original presentation as well as its legacy. Arranged alphabetically, the entries for these plays include: plot details production history biography of the playwright literary aspects of the drama critical reaction to the play major awards the play’s influence cast lists of notable stage and film versions The plays have been selected not for their popularity but for their importance to American theatre and include works by Edward Albee, Harvey Fierstein, Lorraine Hansberry, Lillian Hellman, Tony Kushner, David Mamet, Arthur Miller, Eugene O’Neill, Sam Shepard, Neil Simon, Gore Vidal, Wendy Wasserstein, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, and August Wilson. This informative volume also includes complete lists of Pulitzer Prize winners for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for American Plays, and the Tony Award for Best Play. Providing critical information about the most important works produced since the eighteenth century, 100 Greatest American Plays will appeal to anyone interested in the cultural history of theatre.
Author : Otis L. Guernsey
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879101831
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Best Plays of 1993-1994 written by Otis L. Guernsey and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Featuring scenes from the ten best plays"--Jacket.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Warren French
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134916416X
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Twentieth Century American Literature written by Warren French and published by Springer. This book was released on 1980-11-01 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Trussler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134917064X
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Twentieth Century Drama written by Simon Trussler and published by Springer. This book was released on 1983-04-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of information on all the main events, individuals, political groupings and issues of the 20th century. It provides a guide to current thinking on important historical topics and personalities within the period, and offers a guide to further reading.
Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Playwrights, 1880-1945 written by William W. Demastes and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1995 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the years 1880 to 1945, American theatre grew up, moving from entertainment-driven motives and melodramatic formulas to serious confrontations with issues of its time and to an experimentation with forms that would allow those confrontations to be frank and earnest. Many of the playwrights of this time wrote works of lasting significance, while others have impacted the work of contemporary dramatists. This reference is a guide to American theatre during this formative period. The volume includes alphabetically arranged entries for 40 American playwrights active between 1880 and 1945. Included are the most frequently canonized figures, as well as previously neglected women and minority playwrights whose work is a vital part of American theatre history. Each entry includes a biographical overview, a summary of the critical reception of major productions and significant revivals, a critical assessment of the playwright's career, and a listing of archival, primary, and secondary bibliographic material.
Author : John Gassner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Twenty Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre written by John Gassner and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Gassner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Twenty-Five Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre written by John Gassner and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carl Edmund Rollyson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Critical Survey of Drama: Kobo Abe - Albert Camus written by Carl Edmund Rollyson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines, updates, and expands two earlier Salem Press reference sets: Critical survey of drama, Rev. ed., English language series, published in 1994, and Critical survey of drama, Foreign language series, published in 1986. This new 8 vol. set contains 602 essays, of which 538 discuss individual dramatists and 64 cover broad overview topics. The dramatist profiles contain more than 310 photographs and drawings.
Author : Jeffrey Eric Jenkins
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879103460
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Best Plays Theater Yearbook written by Jeffrey Eric Jenkins and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers plays produced in New York, theater awards, details of productions, prizes, people, and publications, as well as the editors' choices of the ten best plays.
Author : Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438129661
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
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.
Author : Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher : Chicago : St. James Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book International Dictionary of Theatre: Playwrights written by Mark Hawkins-Dady and published by Chicago : St. James Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dictionary of playwrights which contains 485 entries, each of which includes biographical information on the playwright, complete lists of published works (with dates of performance) and a bibliography of critical studies on the playwright.
