Contemporary Dramatists
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Author | : Maggie B. Gale |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2014-11-27 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1317596226 |
Fifty Modern and Contemporary and Dramatists is a critical introduction to the work of some of the most important and influential playwrights from the 1950s to the present day. The figures chosen are among the most widely studied by students of drama, theatre and literature and include such celebrated writers as: • Samuel Beckett • Caryl Churchill • Anna Deavere Smith • Jean Genet • Sarah Kane • Heiner Müller • Arthur Miller • Harold Pinter • Sam Shephard Each short essay is written by one of an international team of academic experts and offers a detailed analysis of the playwright’s key works and career. The introduction provides an historical and theatrical context to the volume, which provides an invaluable overview of modern and contemporary drama.
Author | : James Vinson |
Publisher | : London : St. James Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 1114 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Lauren Gunderson |
Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 95 |
Release | : 2018-06-18 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0822237725 |
Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their lives. They’ll just have to borrow, beg, and band together to get it done. Amidst the noise and color of Elizabethan London, THE BOOK OF WILL finds an unforgettable true story of love, loss, and laughter, and sheds new light on a man you may think you know.
Author | : Duncan Wu |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 1996-12-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 134925231X |
`A most illuminating study.' - John Bayley Six Contemporary Dramatists explores, in a straightforward manner, the central concerns of six of the most important contemporary dramatists. It demonstrates how the work of Alan Bennett, Dennis Potter, Simon Gray, Howard Brenton, David Hare and Alan Ayckbourn is essentially moral, and relates their aspirations to the British romantic tradition of the last century. At the same time, Duncan Wu explores how each writer has responded to the changes that took place in personal and public ethics during the 1980s as a result of Thatcherism. He also includes an interview with Alan Ayckbourn, published here for the first time, in which the volume's themes are focused and summarised. For the paperback edition, a substantial preface discussing Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, David Hare's Skylight and David Edgar's Pentecost has been added. This is an essential and readable guide to televised and theatrical drama for students and theatregoers alike.
Author | : Kimball King |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2013-04-03 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1136521194 |
This comprehensive collection gathers critical essays on the major works of the foremost American and British playwrights of the 20th century, written by leading figures in drama/performance studies.
Author | : Thomas Herbert Dickinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 696 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
For contents, see Author Catalog.
Author | : Thomas H. Dickinson |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 744 |
Release | : 2009-12-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1434407780 |
"Chief Contemporary Dramatists" (second series) features 18 plays from England, Ireland, America, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Russia, and Scandinavia, selected and edited by Thomas H. Dickinson. Facsimile reprint, 1921 edition.
Author | : James Vinson |
Publisher | : London : St. James Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 948 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780900997174 |
Extensive reference guide to the most important living playwrights in the English language.
Author | : Thomas H. Dickinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anne García-Romero |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2016-05-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0816533865 |
A key way to view Latina plays today is through the foundational frame of playwright and teacher Maria Irene Fornes, who has trained a generation of theatre artists and transformed the field of American theatre. Fornes, author of Fefu and Her Friends and Sarita and a nine-time Obie Award winner, is known for her plays that traverse cultural, spiritual, and aesthetic borders. In The Fornes Frame: Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the Legacy of Maria Irene Fornes, Anne García-Romero considers the work of five award-winning Latina playwrights in the early twenty-first century, offering her unique perspective as a theatre studies scholar who is also a professional playwright. The playwrights in this book include Pulitzer Prize–winner Quiara Alegría Hudes; Obie Award–winner Caridad Svich; Karen Zacarías, resident playwright at Arena Stage in Washington, DC; Elaine Romero, member of the Goodman Theatre Playwrights Unit in Chicago, Illinois; and Cusi Cram, company member of the LAByrinth Theater Company in New York City. Using four key concepts—cultural multiplicity, supernatural intervention, Latina identity, and theatrical experimentation—García-Romero shows how these playwrights expand past a consideration of a single culture toward broader, simultaneous connections to diverse cultures. The playwrights also experiment with the theatrical form as they redefine what a Latina play can be. Following Fornes’s legacy, these playwrights continue to contest and complicate Latina theatre.