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| Author | : Jeffrey H. Richards |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 593 |
| Release | : 2014-02 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 0199731497 |
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 | : Marc Robinson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : American drama |
| ISBN | : 9780801856303 |
This collection of essays provides an alternative to the accepted account of the development of American drama. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
| Author | : Brian Nelson |
| Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 452 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9781557833143 |
(Applause Books). Includes: Amy Hill: Tokyo Bound ; David Henry Hwang: Bondage ; Velina Hasu Houston: As Sometimes in a Dead Man's Face ; Lane Nishikawa and Victor Talmadge: The Gate of Heaven ; Dwight Okita: The Rainy Season .
| Author | : Michael Cotsell |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780820474663 |
The Theater of Trauma is a groundbreaking rereading of the relations between psychology and drama in the age of Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, and their many brilliant contemporaries. American modernist Theater of Trauma drew its vision from the psychological investigation of trauma and its consequences - among them hysteria and dissociation - made by French and American psychiatrists such as the great Pierre Janet, Alfred Binet, William James, Morton Prince, and W.E.B. Du Bois; the European and American «dissociationist culture» that developed around their work; and the resulting trauma of World War I. American dramatists' deep resistance to Freud's suppression of trauma challenges the equation of Freud and modernism that has become commonplace in modernist criticism.
| Author | : Gerald Martin Bordman |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 840 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : |
Gerald Bordman's American Musical Theatre has become a landmark book since its publication in 1978. It chronicles American musicals, show by show and season by season, and offers a running commentary and assessment as well as providing the basic facts about each production. This updated edition includes the new shows that have opened on Broadway since the original publication. Also included are over a hundred musicals that were turn-of-the-century, cheap-priced touring shows which never played Broadway, but were the training ground for many theatre greats.
| Author | : Annette Saddik |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2007-09-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 074863066X |
This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts that experiment with form and content, discussing influential playwrights and performance artists such as Tennessee Williams, Adrienne Kennedy, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Charles Ludlum, Anna Deavere Smith, Karen Finley and Will Power, alongside avant-garde theatre groups. Saddik traces the development of contemporary drama since 1945, and discusses the cross-cultural impact of postwar British and European innovations on American theatre from the 1950s to the present day in order to examine the performance of American identity. She argues that contemporary American theatre is primarily a postmodern drama of inclusion and diversity that destabilizes the notion of fixed identity and questions the nature of reality.
| Author | : Thomas F. Connolly |
| Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
| Total Pages | : 186 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780838637807 |
"Readers drawn to the "Roaring Twenties," gossip about the Great White Way, discussion of high, middle, and low-brow culture will seek out this book."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : Leo Huberman |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 387 |
| Release | : 1932-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1583674845 |
A history of labour and the labour movement in the USA, originally published in the 1930s. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents Include: Here They Come! - Beginnings - Are All Men Equal? - Molasses and Tea - "In Order To Form a More Perfect Union" - A Rifle, An Axe - A Strange, Colourful Frontier, The Last - The Manufacturing North - The Agricultural South - Landlords Fight Money Lords - Materials, Men, Machinery, Money - More Materials, Men, Machinery, Money - The Have-nots vs The Haves - From Rags To Riches - From Riches To Rags - The New Deal..Relief - . Recovery - .Reform - .Foreign Policy - "You Guys Gotta Organize" -
| Author | : Various |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 564 |
| Release | : 1997-08-01 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780140435887 |
This unique volume includes eight early dramas that mirror American literary, social, and cultural history: Royall Tylers The Contrast (1789); William Dunlap'sAndre (1798); James Nelson Barker's The Indian Princess (1808); Robert Montgomery Bird's The Gladiator (1831); William Henry Smith's The Drunkard(1844); Anna Cora Mowatt's Fashion (1845); George Aiken's Uncle Tom's Cabin(1852); and Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon (1859). For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
| Author | : David Krasner |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 600 |
| Release | : 2008-04-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1405137347 |
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
