Modern Drama Scholarship and Criticism 1981-1990

Modern Drama Scholarship and Criticism 1981-1990
Author: Charles A. Carpenter
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 676
Release: 1997
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

A selective list of publications for the period, offering some 25,200 entries (no annotations) arranged by nationality and linguistic groups. Most entries concern literary currents in drama since the last third of the 19th century, playwrights who lived at least part of their lives in the 20th century, noted directors, and performance theory. For students and scholars of modern dramatic literature. While annual supplements of recent publications appear in the journal Modern Drama, new compilers took a publication date of 1991 as their starting point for listings, leaving some 2,000 items collected after 1992 appearing only in this volume. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre

The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre
Author: Katherine Brisbane
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 703
Release: 2005-08-16
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1134929781

This volume featrues over 250,000 words and more than 125 photographs identifying and defining theatre in more than 30 countries from India to Uzbekistan, from Thailand to New Zealand and featuring extensive documentation on contemporary Chinese, Japanese, Indian and Australian theatre.

Textual Scholarship

Textual Scholarship
Author: David C. Greetham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2015-10-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1136755799

First published in 1994. This fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling Textual Scholarship covers all aspects of textual theory and scholarly editing for students and scholars. As the definitive introduction to the skills of textual scholarship, the new edition addresses the revolutionary shift from print to digital textuality and subsequent dramatic changes in the emphasis and direction of textual enquiry.

American Drama of the Twentieth Century

American Drama of the Twentieth Century
Author: Gerald M. Berkowitz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317901738

In this book Professor Berkowitz studies the diversity of American drama from the stylistic, experimental plays of O'Neill, through verse, tragedy and community theatre, to the theatre of the 1990s. The discussions range through dramatists, plays, genres and themes, with full supporting appendix material. It also examines major dramatists such as Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, Sam Shephard, Tennessee Williams and August Wilson and covers not only the Broadway scene but also off Broadway movements and fringe theatres and such subjects as women's and African-American drama.

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre Volume 4: The Arab World

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre Volume 4: The Arab World
Author: Don Rubin (Series Editor)
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1134929854

One of the first internationally published overviews of theatrical activity across the Arab World. Includes 160,000 words and over 125 photographs from 22 different Arab countries from Africa to the Middle East.

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre
Author: Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer)
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1344
Release: 2013-10-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1136119086

An annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.

The Facts on File Guide to Research

The Facts on File Guide to Research
Author: Jeff Lenburg
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 593
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1438110405

The Facts On File Guide to Research is a comprehensive guide to doing thorough and accurate research. It includes a detailed listing of available resources and explains general research methods and proper citation of sources. An invaluable reference, this book helps researchers make use of the many new resources available today. Divided into four sections, this easy-to-use guide helps students and general readers prepare for research papers and class studies. Step-by-step guides, detailed explanations, and valuable appendixes covering style guides, such as APA. MLA, and The Chicago Manual of Style, combine to create an incredibly authoritative accessible reference.

Contemporary British Drama, 1970–90

Contemporary British Drama, 1970–90
Author: Hersh Zeifman
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 361
Release: 1993-04-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1349108197

This book focuses exclusively on the exciting and provocative plays produced in England in the last two decades. The primary aim of the collection is to celebrate the truly remarkable range of British drama since 1970, by examining the work of fourteen important and representative playwrights. This emphasis on range applies not only to the dramatists chosen for inclusion but to the critics as well - specifically to the diversity of critical methodology demonstrated in their essays.

The Cambridge History of American Theatre

The Cambridge History of American Theatre
Author: Don B. Wilmeth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 626
Release: 1998
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521651790

The second volume of the authoritative, multi-volume Cambridge History of American Theatre, first published in 1999, begins in the post-Civil War period and traces the development of American theatre up to 1945. It covers all aspects of theatre from plays and playwrights, through actors and acting, to theatre groups and directors. Topics examined include vaudeville and popular entertainment, European influences, theatre in and beyond New York, the rise of the Little Theatre movement, changing audiences, modernism, the Federal Theatre movement, scenography, stagecraft, and architecture. Contextualising chapters explore the role of theatre within the context of American social and cultural history, and the role of American theatre in relation to theatre in Europe and beyond. This definitive history of American theatre includes contributions from the following distinguished academics - Thomas Postlewait, John Frick, Tice L. Miller, Ronald Wainscott, Brenda Murphy, Mark Fearnow, Brooks McNamara, Thomas Riis, Daniel J. Watermeier, Mary C. Henderson, and Warren Kliewer.

Routledge Revivals: David Rabe (1988)

Routledge Revivals: David Rabe (1988)
Author: Philip C. Kolin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2016-11-10
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1351983709

In the twenty years that preceded the publication of this book in 1988, David Rabe was in the vanguard of playwrights who shaped American theatre. As the first full-length work on Rabe, this book laid the groundwork for later critical and biographical studies. The first part consists of an essay that covers three sections: a short biography, a summary and evaluation of his formative journalism for the New Haven Register, and a detailed and cohesive stage history of his work. The second part presents the most comprehensive and authoritative primary bibliography of Rabe to date, with the third section containing a secondary bibliography — including a section on biographical studies.