A Reader S Guide To Modern British Drama

Author : Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 081563076X

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A Reader's Guide to Modern British Drama by Sanford Sternlicht Pdf

This book reveals the influences of modern history and psychology on British drama; the all-important influence of Irish dramatists like Wilde, Shaw, O’Casey, and Beckett; the significance of the Independent Theatre of J. T. Grein and the early Royal Court Theatre; the gay community’s contribution to the British theater; the powerful new feminist drama; and the British festival theater. Auseful tool for readers wishing to know more about Britain’s great dramatic tradition and vital contemporary theater, for students pursuing drama studies, and for libraries in need of an accessible reference work.

Author : Benedict Nightingale
Publisher : London : Heinemann ; Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:49015003016897

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A Reader's Guide to Fifty Modern British Plays by Benedict Nightingale Pdf

First pub 1982 by Pan as An introduction to fifty modern British plays.

Author : Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135314170

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Reader's Guide to Literature in English by Mark Hawkins-Dady Pdf

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.

Author : John Russell Brown
Publisher : Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble Books ; London : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015005523843

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A Short Guide to Modern British Drama by John Russell Brown Pdf

Author : Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998-05-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0815605250

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A Reader's Guide to Modern Irish Drama by Sanford Sternlicht Pdf

This book includes information on the most recent and youngest playwrights working today at the Abbey, Druid, and Lyric Theatres. Sanford Sternlicht discusses the important plays of all the playwrights included and the major themes of modern Irish drama. A Readers Guide to Modern Irish Drama provides an introduction to one of the great dramatic and theatrical traditions of Western culture. Professor Sanford Stemlicht wrote this book specifically for Syracuse University Press's Reader's Guides series. As one of only a handful of comprehensive contemporary studies of Irish drama, the book includes the most recent and youngest playwrights working today at the Abbey, Druid, and Lyric Theatres. Beginning with essays on twentieth-century Irish history, The Irish Literary Theatre, and the development of the Modem ,Irish Theatre in Dublin, Belfast, Galway and other cities, the guide presents biographies and bibliographies of more than twenty-five major twentieth-century Irish dramatists from Lady Gregory, Yeats, and Synge to O'Casey, Beckett, and Behan; from Friel and McGuinness to Marina Carr and Martin McDonagh. Most significantly, Sternlicht discusses the important plays of all the playwrights included, and the major themes of modem Irish drama-the struggle for independence, the cruelty of poverty, the pains of emigration and exile, the decline of the Anglo-Irish ascendency, the power of religion, the longing for land, and the familial and gender conflicts of a people in transition. Finally, a selected bibliography completes the study.

Author : Catherine Rees
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350309555

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Contemporary British Drama by Catherine Rees Pdf

This guide offers a comprehensive account of British theatre from the 1960s to the present day. Placing critical commentary at the heart of its analysis, it explores how theatre critics and scholars have sought to understand and write about modern theatre, from the earliest reviews to revivals appearing decades later. With studies of contemporary reviews and archival material, Contemporary British Drama offers readers the opportunity to learn about British theatre in its original context and to chart shifting critical perceptions over the decades. It provides a crucial juxtaposition between the development of British theatre and its contemporaneous critical response, supplying an invaluable insight into the critical climate of recent decades. From feminist playwrighting to In-Yer-Face theatre, this is the ideal companion for undergraduate students of literature and theatre in need of an introduction to the debates surrounding contemporary British drama.

Author : Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313038990

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Masterpieces of Modern British and Irish Drama by Sanford Sternlicht Pdf

Modern British and Irish dramatic works are among the plays most widely read by students. This volume conveniently introduces 10 major plays by British and Irish dramatists. Each chapter is devoted to a particular play and includes a brief biography, a plot synopsis, a discussion of major themes and characters, an overview of the play's historical background, an analysis of the work's dramatic style, an overview of the play's critical reception, and a list of works for further reading. Modern British and Irish dramatic works are widely enjoyed by general readers and high school students. But because they are rooted in literary Modernism and generally reflect particular historical and cultural concerns, they can also be difficult for students to understand. This volume concisely and conveniently introduces 10 masterpieces of British and Irish drama in an accessible manner.

Author : Mary Luckhurst
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470751473

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A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama, 1880 - 2005 by Mary Luckhurst Pdf

This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity. An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama. Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism. Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma.

Author : Mary Brewer,Lynette Goddard,Deirdre Osborne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137506290

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Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama by Mary Brewer,Lynette Goddard,Deirdre Osborne Pdf

This indispensable overview of modern black British drama spans seven decades of distinctive playwriting from the 1950s to the present. Interweaving social and cultural context with close critical analysis of key dramatists' plays, leading scholars explore how these dramatists have created an enduring, transformative and diverse cultural presence.

Author : Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 2816 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780520321878

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A Reference Guide for English Studies by Michael J. Marcuse Pdf

Author : Ajda Bastan
Publisher : Astana Yayınları
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9786256501454

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Violence in British Theatre: The Second Half of the Twentieth Century - Expanded Second Edition by Ajda Bastan Pdf

In this expanded second edition of her book, Ajda Bastan explores the various forms of violence depicted in British theatre during the latter half of the twentieth century. She offers a comprehensive analysis that presents the complex interplay between theatre, society, and the multifaceted nature of violence in the dramatic arts. The book includes commentary on physical, emotional, sexual, economic, and self-directed violence, examining these themes in nine plays by eight prominent British playwrights. The plays covered in chronological order are "Look Back in Anger," "The Birthday Party," "Entertaining Mr. Sloane," "Saved," "Vinegar Tom," "Plenty," "Blasted," "Shopping and Fucking," and "Cleansed."

Author : Lea Jasmin Gutscher
Publisher : Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783954893324

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Revelation or Damnation? Depictions of Violence in Sarah Kane’s Theatre by Lea Jasmin Gutscher Pdf

With her controversial stage art, the young playwright Sarah Kane broke new dramaturgic ground and made a lasting impression that changed British drama forever. Even though it is part of the canon covering post-war drama, Kane’s work has often met with misunderstanding and fierce criticism due to the uncountable representations of atrocities. How can we make sense of Kane’s seemingly crude and bleak theatre? Mainly concentrating on the play Cleansed, the author examines the nature of violence in Kane’s writing. What purpose does it serve? Is it simply employed for its shock value? Or is it rather used as a metaphor? Kane herself considered her third full-length play as a play about love. In suggesting a figurative reading of the late playwright’s texts, the author shows how Kane embraces violence as a metaphor of the various sufferings both love and life perpetrate upon the human being. Locked beneath the revolting cruelties, we can find a vivid theatricality, powerful images, and a unique rhythm and sound of language.

Author : Saumya Rajan
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781543702262

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New World Order of Postmodernism in the Plays of Harold Pinter by Saumya Rajan Pdf

The book reconnoiters the New World Order of Postmodernism in five plays The Room (1957), The Birthday Party (1957), The Caretaker (1960), The Homecoming (1965) and Celebration (2000) of Harold Pinter. With culturally structured, incomprehensibly manipulated, dual and fragmented characters, Harold Pinter analyses the ambiguities of political system. It is perhaps the System that forcibly drags Stanley to a world of systems in The Birthday Party. The situation of Ruth in The Homecoming clearly indicates the inevitable grip of this System. The last play Celebration overtly ridicules the very political system we approve of wherein the strategy consultants and the corporate people define the organized mechanism of this SYSTEM! The internalization of power which the power structures of societies and politics possess, appears largely in his plays, providing postmodernism its duality. Pinter offers us a true picture of our postmodernist culture an apocalyptic world at the edge of civilization.

Author : Alexander Feldman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780415502184

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Dramas of the Past on the Twentieth-century Stage by Alexander Feldman Pdf

"This book defines and exemplifies a major genre of modern dramatic writing, termed historiographic metatheatre, in which self-reflexive engagements with the traditions and forms of dramatic art illuminate historical themes and aid in the representation of historical events and, in doing so, formulates a genre. Historiographic metatheatre has been, and remains, a seminal mode of political engagement and ideological critique in the contemporary dramatic canon. Locating its key texts within the traditions of historical drama, self-reflexivity in European theatre, debates in the politics and aesthetics of postmodernism, and currents in contemporary historiography, this book provides a new critical idiom for discussing the major works of the genre and others that utilize its techniques. Feldman studies landmarks in the theatre history of postwar Britain by Weiss, Stoppard, Brenton, Wertenbaker and others, focusing on European revolutionary politics, the historiography of the World Wars and the effects of British colonialism. The playwrights under consideration all use the device of the play-within-the-play to explore constructions of nationhood and of Britishness, in particular. Those plays performed within the framing works are produced in places of exile where, Feldman argues, the marginalized negotiate the terms of national identity through performance."--Publisher's website.

Author : A. Norman Jeffares,Michael Morony
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1986-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349185115

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Twentieth-Century English Literature by A. Norman Jeffares,Michael Morony Pdf

In revising this book for a second edition, Harry Blamires has updated his final chapters to give a thorough coverage to the work of dramatists, novelists and poets who have achieved prominence in the 1980s, either as new writers or rediscovered authors who have recently been brought back into print or revived by radio and television.