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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 | : William Herman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Drama |
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Author | : Hedwig Bock |
Publisher | : Munich : M. Hueber |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Robert J. Andreach |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780809321780 |
"Exploring the theatre from the 1960s to the present, Robert J. Andreach shows the various ways in which the contemporary American theatre creates a personal, theatrical, and national self." "Andreach argues that the contemporary American theatre creates multiple selves that reflect and give voice to the many communities within our multicultural society. These selves are fragmented and enclaved, however, which makes necessary a counter movement that seeks, through interaction among the various parts, to heal the divisions within, between, and among them." --Book Jacket.
Author | : Christopher Innes |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2013-12-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1408134810 |
Unrivalled in its coverage of recent work and writers, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights surveys and analyses the breadth, vitality and development of theatrical work to emerge from America over the last fifty years. This authoritative guide leads you through the work of 25 major contemporary American playwrights, discussing more than 140 plays in detail. Written by a team of 25 eminent international scholars, each chapter provides: · a biographical introduction to the playwright's work; · a survey and concise analysis of the writer's most important plays; · a discussion of their style, dramaturgical concerns and critical reception; · a bibliography of published plays and a select list of critical works. Among the many Tony, Obie and Pulitzer prize-winning playwrights included are Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Suzan-Lori Parks, August Wilson, Paula Vogel and Neil LaBute. The abundance of work analysed enables fresh, illuminating conclusions to be drawn about the development of contemporary American playwriting.
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Publisher | : Cambria Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
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ISBN | : 1621969843 |
Author | : David Brauner |
Publisher | : Edinburgh Critical Guides to L |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780748622689 |
This study of contemporary American fiction discusses work by critically-acclaimed authors such as Philip Roth, Annie Proulx and Paul Auster and situates them in a range of literary-historical contexts. It identifies trends in recent American fiction and analyzes the main developments in critical thinking of the last 20 years.
Author | : C.W.E. Bigsby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1969 |
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Author | : Annette J. Saddik |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : American drama |
ISBN | : 9781780343488 |
This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions.
Author | : C. W. E. Bigsby |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2000-12-21 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521794107 |
New edition of Modern American Drama completes the survey and comes up to 2000.