A Reader's Guide to Modern American Drama

A Reader's Guide to Modern American Drama
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.

Drama: A Graphic Novel

Drama: A Graphic Novel
Author: Raina Telgemeier
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2014-07-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545779960

From Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile and Sisters! Callie loves theater. And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of Moon over Mississippi, she can't really sing. Instead she's the set designer for the drama department's stage crew, and this year she's determined to create a set worthy of Broadway on a middle-school budget. But how can she, when she doesn't know much about carpentry, ticket sales are down, and the crew members are having trouble working together? Not to mention the onstage AND offstage drama that occurs once the actors are chosen. And when two cute brothers enter the picture, things get even crazier!

A Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama

A Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama
Author: Vivian Salmon
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 547
Release: 1987-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027278865

In recent years the language of Shakespearean drama has been described in a number of publications intended mainly for the undergraduate student or general reader, but the studies in academic journals to which they refer are not always easily accessible even though they are of great interest to the general reader and essential for the specialist. The purpose of this collection is therefore to bring together some of the most valuable of these studies which, in discussing various aspects of the language of the early 17th century as exemplified in Shakespearean drama, provide the reader with deeper insights into the meaning of Shakespearean text, often by reference to the social, literary and linguistic context of the time.

Reader's Guide to Literature in English

Reader's Guide to Literature in English
Author: Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1024
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1135314179

Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.

Postmodern/drama

Postmodern/drama
Author: Stephen Watt
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1998
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780472108725

Scrutinizing the critical tendency to label texts or writers as "postmodern", scholar Stephen Watt argues that "reading post modernly" merely implies reading culture more broadly. In contemporary drama, Watt considers postmodernity less a question of genre or media than a mode of subjectivity shared by both playwright and audience. 6 illustrations.

Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama

Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama
Author: Janet Ruth Heller
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1990
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780826207180

"Many nineteenth-century writers believed that the best tragedy should be read rather than performed, and they have often been attacked for their views by later critics. Through detailed analysis of Coleridge's Shakespearean Criticism, Lamb's On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, and Hazlitt's Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, Heller shows that in their concern with educating the reader these Romantics anticipate twentieth-century reader response criticism, educational theory, and film criticism."--Publishers website.

Dramatic Bibliography

Dramatic Bibliography
Author:
Publisher: 清华大学出版社有限公司
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1933
Genre: Bibliographical literature
ISBN: