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Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov

Author : Stella Adler
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307787931
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov written by Stella Adler and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her long-awaited book, the legendary acting teacher Stella Adler gives us her extraordinary insights into the work of Henrik Ibsen ("The creation of the modern theater took a genius like Ibsen. . .Miller and Odets, Inge and O'Neill, Williams and Shaw, swallowed the whole of him"), August Strindberg ("He understood and predicted the forces that would break in our lives"), and Anton Chekhov ("Chekhov doesn't want a play, he wants what happens in life. In life, people don't usually kill each other. They talk"). Through the plays of these masters, Adler discusses the arts of playwriting and script interpretation ("There are two aspects of the theater. One belongs to the author and the other to the actor. The actor thinks it all belongs to the author. . .The curtain goes up and all he knows are the lines. . .It is not enough. . .Script interpretation is your profession"). She looks into aspects of society and class, and into our cultural past, as well as the evolution of the modern spirit ("The actor learns from Ibsen what is modern in the modern theater. There are no villains, no heroes. Ibsen understands, more than anything, there is more than one truth"). Stella Adler--daughter of Jacob Adler, who was universally acknowledged to be the greatest actor of the Yiddish theater, and herself a disciple of Stanislavsky--examines the role of the actor and brings to life the plays from which all modern theater derives: Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, An Enemy of the People, and A Doll's House; Strindberg's Miss Julie and The Father; Chekhov's The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, and Three Sisters ("Masha is the sister who is the mystery. You cannot reach her. You cannot reach the artist. There is no logical way. Keep her in a special pocket of feelings that are complex and different"). Adler discusses the ideas behind these plays and explores the world of the playwrights and the history--both familial and cultural--that informed their work. She illumines not only the dramatic essence of each play but its subtext as well, continually asking questions that deepen one's understanding of the work and of the human spirit. Adler's book, brilliantly edited by Barry Paris, puts her famous lectures into print for the first time.

Modernism in European Drama

Author : Frederick J. Marker
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802082060
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Modernism in European Drama written by Frederick J. Marker and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays, originally published over the last forty years in the journal Modern Drama, explores the drama of four of the most influential European proponents of modernism in the European Drama: Ibsen, Strandberg, Pirandello and Beckett.

The Making of Modern Drama

Author : Richard Gilman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300079029
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Modern Drama written by Richard Gilman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical exploration of modern drama begins with Büchner and Ibsen and then discusses the major playwrights who have shaped modern theater. A new introduction by the author assesses developments of recent years.

Plays by August Strindberg

Author : August Strindberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Plays by August Strindberg written by August Strindberg and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Questioning the Father

Author : Ross Shideler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780804735605
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Questioning the Father written by Ross Shideler and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the intellectual and historical context of Darwin’s theory of evolution and its concomitant questioning of a divine father, this book analyzes dramatic and narrative representations of crises in the nineteenth-century patriarchal family and the gradual rise of the independent or New Woman in works by Zola, Ibsen, Strindberg, and Hardy. The introduction establishes the book’s critical foundation, which is based on the thought of Darwinian scholars, family and psychoanalytic theorists, and a variety of feminist critics. This is followed by a brief overview of Darwin’s challenge to Creationist beliefs, suggesting how evolutionary theory served as a focal point for European literary depictions of patriarchal families in turmoil. The author then discusses works by Auguste Comte, Hippolyte Taine, and Emile Zola, whose Thérèse Raquin features a strong and sexual woman paired with a weak man. The book’s middle chapters focus on the changing world of men and women in Scandinavia, with emphasis on the writings of Georg Brandes and J. P. Jacobsen, precursors of Ibsen and Strindberg. Analysis of four Ibsen plays—Pillars of Society, A Doll House, Ghosts, and Hedda Gabler—reveals a Darwinian universe in which women struggle to break free of patriarchal restrictions, typified by Nora’s forgery of her father’s name in A Doll House. A subsequent discussion highlights Strindberg’s prose and drama—from Son of a Servant to The Fathers, Creditors, The Dance of Death, and The Pelican—which reflect the nineteenth-century bourgeois male’s resistance to the loss of the privileged role of the father and the weakening of the nuclear family. The final chapter demonstrates how Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure lay bare the destructive heritage of the father’s name and the fatal effects of patriarchal traditions; the author shows how Hardy builds his narratives on the inevitably conflictual relationships between men and women restricted by outdated gender roles defined by social and religious institutions.

Miss Julie

Author : August Strindberg
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486111970
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Miss Julie written by August Strindberg and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest classics of modern theater concerns a willful young aristocrat's seduction of her father's valet during a Midsummer's Eve celebration. Complete with Strindberg's highly-regarded critical preface.

Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett

Author : Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231538928
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Book Synopsis Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett by : Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr

Download or read book Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett written by Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolutionary theory made its stage debut as early as the 1840s, reflecting a scientific advancement that was fast changing the world. Tracing this development in dozens of mainstream European and American plays, as well as in circus, vaudeville, pantomime, and "missing link" performances, Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett reveals the deep, transformative entanglement among science, art, and culture in modern times. The stage proved to be no mere handmaiden to evolutionary science, though, often resisting and altering the ideas at its core. Many dramatists cast suspicion on the arguments of evolutionary theory and rejected its claims, even as they entertained its thrilling possibilities. Engaging directly with the relation of science and culture, this book considers the influence of not only Darwin but also Lamarck, Chambers, Spencer, Wallace, Haeckel, de Vries, and other evolutionists on 150 years of theater. It shares significant new insights into the work of Ibsen, Shaw, Wilder, and Beckett, and writes female playwrights, such as Susan Glaspell and Elizabeth Baker, into the theatrical record, unpacking their dramatic explorations of biological determinism, gender essentialism, the maternal instinct, and the "cult of motherhood." It is likely that more people encountered evolution at the theater than through any other art form in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Considering the liveliness and immediacy of the theater and its reliance on a diverse community of spectators and the power that entails, this book is a key text for grasping the extent of the public's adaptation to the new theory and the legacy of its representation on the perceived legitimacy (or illegitimacy) of scientific work.

The Theatre of Revolt

Author : Robert Brustein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0929587537
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Revolt written by Robert Brustein and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1991 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1964 by Little, Brown. First Elephant paperback with a new preface by the author.

Strindberg and Modernist Theatre

Author : Frederick J. Marker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521039390
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book Strindberg and Modernist Theatre written by Frederick J. Marker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a detailed critical analysis of Strindberg's major works in performance, created after his psychic upheaval, which he called his "Inferno." Ranging from the early productions of Max Reinhardt and Olof Molander to the reinterpretations of Robert Lepage, Robert Wilson, and Ingmar Bergman, the study explores the crucial impact of this dramatist's method of playwriting. Each chapter ends with a section devoted to innovative Strindberg performances on the contemporary stage.

A Pocket Guide to Ibsen, Chekhov and Strindberg

Author : Michael Pennington
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571214754
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book A Pocket Guide to Ibsen, Chekhov and Strindberg written by Michael Pennington and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2004 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential, concise and readable guide to the plays of Ibsen, Chekhov and Strindberg. Are you looking for an overview of the major work of these three leading playwrights? Are you going to see a play by Ibsen, Chekhov or Strindberg and want a run-down of the storyline? Do you want to know why these three are considered major writers? A Pocket Guide to Ibsen, Chekhov and Strindberg gives you all this and more: An introduction to each playwright Historical and theatrical context to their plays A synopsis for and analysis of each of the major plays Details of productions around the world A chronology of plays during the period Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) and August Strindberg (1848-1912) are acknowledged masters of their craft. This handy reference book aims to tell you why they should be considered as such, as well as giving you a snapshot view of the plays and a considered view of the writers. Faber's 'Pocket Guide' series includes: A Pocket Guide to Shakespeare's Plays, A Pocket Guide to the 20th Century Theatre, A Pocket Guide to Opera and A Pocket Guide to Alan Ayckbourn's Plays.

Spectral Characters

Author : Sarah Balkin
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472131486
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Spectral Characters written by Sarah Balkin and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theater’s materiality and reliance on human actors has traditionally put it at odds with modernist principles of aesthetic autonomy and depersonalization. Spectral Characters argues that modern dramatists in fact emphasized the extent to which humans are fictional, made and changed by costumes, settings, props, and spoken dialogue. Examining work by Ibsen, Wilde, Strindberg, Genet, Kopit, and Beckett, the book takes up the apparent deadness of characters whose selves are made of other people, whose thoughts become exteriorized communication technologies, and whose bodies merge with walls and furniture. The ghostly, vampiric, and telepathic qualities of these characters, Sarah Balkin argues, mark a new relationship between the material and the imaginary in modern theater. By considering characters whose bodies respond to language, whose attempts to realize their individuality collapse into inanimacy, and who sometimes don’t appear at all, the book posits a new genealogy of modernist drama that emphasizes its continuities with nineteenth-century melodrama and realism.

Ibsen, Scandinavia and the Making of a World Drama

Author : Narve Fulsås
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316992799
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Ibsen, Scandinavia and the Making of a World Drama written by Narve Fulsås and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henrik Ibsen's drama is the most prominent and lasting contribution of the cultural surge seen in Scandinavian literature in the later nineteenth century. When he made his debut in Norway in 1850, the nation's literary presence was negligible, yet by 1890 Ibsen had become one of Europe's most famous authors. Contrary to the standard narrative of his move from restrictive provincial origins to liberating European exile, Narve Fulsås and Tore Rem show how Ibsen's trajectory was preconditioned on his continued embeddedness in Scandinavian society and culture, and that he experienced great success in his home markets. This volume traces how Ibsen's works first travelled outside Scandinavia and studies the mechanisms of his appropriation in Germany, Britain and France. Engaging with theories of book dissemination and world literature, and re-assessing the emergence of 'peripheral' literary nations, this book provides new perspectives on the work of this major figure of European literature and theatre.

The Drama of Ibsen and Strindberg

Author : Frank Laurence Lucas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Drama of Ibsen and Strindberg written by Frank Laurence Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plays of both Scandinavian dramatists are analyzed. A final chapter contrasts their personalities and work.

Ibsen's Kingdom

Author : Evert Sprinchorn
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300256248
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Ibsen's Kingdom written by Evert Sprinchorn and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major biography of one of the most important figures in modern drama, evoked through a biographical reading of his playsNorwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen achieved unparalleled success in his lifetime and remains one of the most important figures in modern drama. The culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, Evert Sprinchorn’s biography constructs Ibsen’s life through a biographical reading of his plays with provocative and insightful analyses of his works, placing them and their author within the social, political, and intellectual foment of nineteenth-century Europe. This thought-provoking book will captivate anyone interested in the history of drama and the foundations of modernism.

Ibsen, Strindberg and the Intimate Theatre

Author : Egil Törnqvist
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789053563717
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (637 download)

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Download or read book Ibsen, Strindberg and the Intimate Theatre written by Egil Törnqvist and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Part 2 : Strindberg (s. 106-184) behandlas TV-teaterföreställningar av Fadren (s. 106-116), Fröken Julie (s. 117-126), Den starkare (s. 127-133), Ett drömspel (s. 134-145), Oväder (s. 146-154), Spöksonaten (s. 155-171) och Pelikanen (s. 172-184).

After Miss Julie

Author : Patrick Marber
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822224396
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book After Miss Julie written by Patrick Marber and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2010 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: AFTER MISS JULIE transposes August Strindberg's 1888 play about sex and class to an English country house on the eve of Labour's historic landslide in 1945.

The Methuen Drama Book of Naturalist Plays

Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 : 9781408128435
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book The Methuen Drama Book of Naturalist Plays written by Henrik Ibsen and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of Naturalist theatre remains a staple and often foundational part of the curriculum at all levels of drama education. This anthology of six of the most commonly studied and revived Naturalist plays from the European repertoire offers a unique compendium that will serve as required reading for drama courses and is ideal for theatre practitioners and fans. The selected plays perfectly reflect the formal and geographical diversity of Naturalist theatre as well as its major philosophical, political and theatrical preoccupations. A critical introduction by Dr Chris Megson contextualises the emergence of Naturalist theatre in the late nineteenth century, identifying its principal aims and methods; provides an analysis of the selected plays, mapping their key preoccupations, and ends by considering Naturalism's enduring legacy and resonance today.