The American Play
Download The American Play full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free The American Play ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : Suzan-Lori Parks |
Publisher | : Theatre Communications Group |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2013-10-15 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1559367369 |
"Parks has burst through every known convention to invent a new theatrical language, like a jive Samuel Beckett, while exploding American cultural myths and stereotypes along the way.... She's passionate and jokey and some kind of genius."--Vogue A collection of plays and essays by one of America's premier playwrights. Includes the essays "Possession," "from Elements of Style," and "An Equation for Black People Onstage," and the plays Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, Betting on Dust Commander, Pickling, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Devotees in the Garden of Love, and The America Play.
Author | : Suzan-Lori Parks |
Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780822214236 |
THE STORY: Once upon a time there was a theme park called the Great Hole of History. It was a popular spot for honeymooners who, in search of post-nuptial excitement, would visit this hole and watch the daily historical parades. One of these visi
Author | : Marc Robinson |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0300170041 |
In this brilliant study, Marc Robinson explores more than two hundred years of plays, styles, and stagings of American theater. Mapping the changing cultural landscape from the late eighteenth century to the start of the twenty-first, he explores how theater has--and has not--changed and offers close readings of plays by O'Neill, Stein, Wilder, Miller, and Albee, as well as by important but perhaps lesser known dramatists such as Wallace Stevens, Jean Toomer, Djuna Barnes, and many others. Robinson reads each work in an ambitiously interdisciplinary context, linking advances in theater to developments in American literature, dance, and visual art. The author is particularly attentive to the continuities in American drama, and expertly teases out recurring themes, such as the significance of visuality. He avoids neatly categorizing nineteenth- and twentieth-century plays and depicts a theater more restive and mercurial than has been recognized before. Robinson proves both a fascinating and thought-provoking critic and a spirited guide to the history of American drama.
Author | : Marc Robinson |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2009-05-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 030015612X |
In this brilliant study, Marc Robinson explores more than two hundred years of plays, styles, and stagings of American theater. Mapping the changing cultural landscape from the late eighteenth century to the start of the twenty-first, he explores how theater has--and has not--changed and offers close readings of plays by O'Neill, Stein, Wilder, Miller, and Albee, as well as by important but perhaps lesser known dramatists such as Wallace Stevens, Jean Toomer, Djuna Barnes, and many others. Robinson reads each work in an ambitiously interdisciplinary context, linking advances in theater to developments in American literature, dance, and visual art. The author is particularly attentive to the continuities in American drama, and expertly teases out recurring themes, such as the significance of visuality. He avoids neatly categorizing nineteenth- and twentieth-century plays and depicts a theater more restive and mercurial than has been recognized before. Robinson proves both a fascinating and thought-provoking critic and a spirited guide to the history of American drama.
Author | : Todd London |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : American drama |
ISBN | : 9780984310906 |
Author | : Howard P. Chudacoff |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2008-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814716652 |
Introduction: Play -- Childhood and play in colonial America -- Domesticating children, 1800-1850 -- The arrival of toys, 1850-1900 -- The invasion of children's play culture, 1900-1950 -- The golden age, 1900-1950 -- The commercialization of children's play, 1950 to the present -- Children's play goes underground, 1950 to the present -- Conclusion
Author | : Shannon Rhodes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : American Play Company |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Theater |
ISBN | : |
Author | : American Play Company |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Theater |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas S. Hischak |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2017-03-06 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1442256060 |
Theatre in America has had a rich history—from the first performance of the Lewis Hallam Troupe in September 1752 to the lively shows of modern Broadway. Over the past few centuries, significant works by American playwrights have been produced, including Abie’s Irish Rose, Long Day’s Journey into Night, A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, A Raisin in the Sun, Fences, and Angels in America. In 100 Greatest American Plays, Thomas S. Hischak provides an engaging discussion of the best stage productions to come out of the United States. Each play is discussed in the context of its original presentation as well as its legacy. Arranged alphabetically, the entries for these plays include: plot details production history biography of the playwright literary aspects of the drama critical reaction to the play major awards the play’s influence cast lists of notable stage and film versions The plays have been selected not for their popularity but for their importance to American theatre and include works by Edward Albee, Harvey Fierstein, Lorraine Hansberry, Lillian Hellman, Tony Kushner, David Mamet, Arthur Miller, Eugene O’Neill, Sam Shepard, Neil Simon, Gore Vidal, Wendy Wasserstein, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, and August Wilson. This informative volume also includes complete lists of Pulitzer Prize winners for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for American Plays, and the Tony Award for Best Play. Providing critical information about the most important works produced since the eighteenth century, 100 Greatest American Plays will appeal to anyone interested in the cultural history of theatre.