Essays On Modern American Drama
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Author | : Dorothy Parker |
Publisher | : Sterling/Main Street |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
This anthology gathers some of Modern Drama's most distinguished pieces on America's four most important playwrights since Eugene O'Neill: Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, and Sam Shepard. While Parker has chosen these authors "as representative of the main stream of American dramatic tradition," she does not offer a general overview of the plays or playwrights, nor any general orientation to aid the reader. These essays are written by scholars for serious students of American drama. The majority of the essays concentrate on a single play, and while they appeared decades ago, all were major articles in the field. Old but solid, they should still be of interest to students and scholars alike.
Author | : Hedwig Bock |
Publisher | : Munich : M. Hueber |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Edwards Taylor |
Publisher | : DeLand, Fla. : Everett/Edwards |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : American drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alfonso Ceballos Muñoz, |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2011-09-29 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0786488972 |
This interdisciplinary collection of 19 essays addresses violence on the American stage. Topics include the revolutionary period and the role of violence in establishing national identity, violence by and against ethnic groups, and females as perpetrators and victims, as well as state and psychological violence and violence within the family. The book works to assess whether representing violence may cause its cessation, or whether it generates further destruction. Featured playwrights include Susan Glaspell, Sophie Treadwell, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Amiri Baraka, Luis Valdes, Cherríe Moraga, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Neil LaBute, John Guare, Rebecca Gilman, and Heather MacDonald.
Author | : Drew Eisenhauer |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1476601402 |
The new essays in this collection, on such diverse writers as Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, Maurine Dallas Watkins, Sophie Treadwell, and Washington Irving, fill an important conceptual gap. The essayists offer numerous approaches to intertextuality: the influence of the poetry of romanticism and Shakespeare and of histories and novels, ideological and political discourses on American playwrights, unlikely connections between such writers as Miller and Wilder, the problems of intertexts in translation, the evolution in historical and performance contexts of the same tale, and the relationships among feminism, the drama of the courtroom, and the drama of the stage. Intertextuality has been an under-explored area in studies of dramatic and performance texts. The innovative findings of these scholars testify to the continuing vitality of research in American drama and performance.
Author | : Dorothy Parker |
Publisher | : Sterling/Main Street |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
This anthology gathers some of Modern Drama's most distinguished pieces on America's four most important playwrights since Eugene O'Neill: Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, and Sam Shepard. While Parker has chosen these authors "as representative of the main stream of American dramatic tradition," she does not offer a general overview of the plays or playwrights, nor any general orientation to aid the reader. These essays are written by scholars for serious students of American drama. The majority of the essays concentrate on a single play, and while they appeared decades ago, all were major articles in the field. Old but solid, they should still be of interest to students and scholars alike.
Author | : Felicia Hardison Londré |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2019-11-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1350017493 |
The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major playwrights and their works to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * Eugene O'Neill: The Iceman Cometh (1946), A Moon for the Misbegotten (1947), Long Day's Journey Into Night (written 1941, produced 1956), and A Touch of the Poet (written 1942, produced 1958); * Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie (1944), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Summer and Smoke (1948); * Arthur Miller: All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), and The Crucible (1953); * Thornton Wilder: Our Town (1938), The Skin of Our Teeth (1942), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), and The Alcestiad (written 1940s).
Author | : Julie Adam |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2016-07-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349213632 |
Taking as its starting-point the 'death of tragedy' debate, and focusing on the supposed disappearance from the stage of the individual tragic hero, the book views selected plays and writings on the theatre by Miller, Williams, Maxwell Anderson and O'Neill as exemplifying four versions of heroism: idealism, martyrdom, self-reflection and survival. Julie Adam shows that these diverse playwrights share a desire to redefine tragic heroism in individualistic liberal terms.
Author | : Alvin B. Kernan |
Publisher | : Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gilbert Debusscher |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : American drama |
ISBN | : 9789051831078 |