A Readers Guide To Modern British Drama
Download A Readers Guide To Modern British Drama full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free A Readers Guide To Modern British Drama ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : Sanford Sternlicht |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2004-12-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780815630760 |
This book reveals the influences of modern history and psychology on British drama; the all-important influence of Irish dramatists like Wilde, Shaw, O’Casey, and Beckett; the significance of the Independent Theatre of J. T. Grein and the early Royal Court Theatre; the gay community’s contribution to the British theater; the powerful new feminist drama; and the British festival theater. Auseful tool for readers wishing to know more about Britain’s great dramatic tradition and vital contemporary theater, for students pursuing drama studies, and for libraries in need of an accessible reference work.
Author | : Benedict Nightingale |
Publisher | : London : Heinemann ; Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
First pub 1982 by Pan as An introduction to fifty modern British plays.
Author | : John Russell Brown |
Publisher | : Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble Books ; London : Heinemann Educational Books |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sanford Sternlicht |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2002-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780815629399 |
Sanford Sternlicht presents a comprehensive survey of modern American drama beginning with its antecedents in Victorian melodrama through the present. He discusses the work and achievement of more than seventy playwrights, from Eugene O’Neill to Suzan-Lori Parks—from the golden era of Broadway to the rise of Off-Broadway and regional theater. Stern-licht shows how world theater influenced the American stage, and how the views of American dramatists reflected the great American social movements of their times. In addition, he describes the contributions of early experimental theater, the Federal Theater of the 1930s, African American, feminist, and gay and lesbian drama—and the joyous trends and triumphs of American musical theater.
Author | : Sanford Sternlicht |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1998-06 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
A Reader's Guide to Modern Irish Drama provides an introduction to one of the great dramatic and theatrical traditions of Western culture.
Author | : Catherine Rees |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2019-11-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1350309559 |
This guide offers a comprehensive account of British theatre from the 1960s to the present day. Placing critical commentary at the heart of its analysis, it explores how theatre critics and scholars have sought to understand and write about modern theatre, from the earliest reviews to revivals appearing decades later. With studies of contemporary reviews and archival material, Contemporary British Drama offers readers the opportunity to learn about British theatre in its original context and to chart shifting critical perceptions over the decades. It provides a crucial juxtaposition between the development of British theatre and its contemporaneous critical response, supplying an invaluable insight into the critical climate of recent decades. From feminist playwrighting to In-Yer-Face theatre, this is the ideal companion for undergraduate students of literature and theatre in need of an introduction to the debates surrounding contemporary British drama.
Author | : Sanford Sternlicht |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2005-08-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0313038996 |
Modern British and Irish dramatic works are among the plays most widely read by students. This volume conveniently introduces 10 major plays by British and Irish dramatists. Each chapter is devoted to a particular play and includes a brief biography, a plot synopsis, a discussion of major themes and characters, an overview of the play's historical background, an analysis of the work's dramatic style, an overview of the play's critical reception, and a list of works for further reading. Modern British and Irish dramatic works are widely enjoyed by general readers and high school students. But because they are rooted in literary Modernism and generally reflect particular historical and cultural concerns, they can also be difficult for students to understand. This volume concisely and conveniently introduces 10 masterpieces of British and Irish drama in an accessible manner.
Author | : J. L. Styan |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780820444895 |
This book introduces the elements of drama and the principles behind the reading and study of plays--classical and modern. It makes a special point of seeing drama as intended for acting and performance, and it therefore emphasizes the role of the spectator at a play and the sort of theatre for which drama was written. The performance approach to the study of plays finally clarifies the different kinds of drama (comedy, tragedy, melodrama, and farce) and identifies its forms (realism, stylization, and symbolism). The book draws on specific examples of drama, is rich in helpful charts and diagrams, and contains a comprehensive glossary. Drama will be a useful guide for students and general playgoers alike.
Author | : Stephen Unwin |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780571200146 |
If great drama flourishes in a changing world, the twentieth century may prove itself the most dramatically fruitful ever. The briefest historical outline shows a time of extraordinary upheaval, and twentieth-century drama's greatest achievement was that it managed to reflect those changes with courage, vision, and artistry. In A Pocket Guide to 20th Century Drama, Stephen Unwin and Carole Woddis examine fifty seminal works from the past one hundred years, and in the process chart some of the most profound events of that era -- from Anton Chekhov's illustration of the fin-de-siecle clash in cultural value systems in The Cherry Orchard to World War II's legacy of moral despair as voiced in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot to Tony Kushner's stark and moving exploration of the ravages of AIDS in Angels in America. For each play, a precis is provided, along with a brief essay on its historical and literary context and a rundown of pertinent productions. In addition, the authors provide both an overview of the past century in history and drama, and a chronicle of one thousand of the century's notable plays, providing an understanding of what other works were being written at the time.
Author | : Mary Luckhurst |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0470751479 |
This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity. An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama. Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism. Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma.