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Author : Alan S. Downer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Alan Seymour Downer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:911699376
Author : Alan Seymour Downer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:463507157
Author : C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521794102
New edition of Modern American Drama completes the survey and comes up to 2000.
Author : Thomas F. Connolly
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0838637809
"Readers drawn to the "Roaring Twenties," gossip about the Great White Way, discussion of high, middle, and low-brow culture will seek out this book."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Tice L. Miller
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780809387489
In this survey of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American drama, Tice L. Miller examines American plays written before a canon was established in American dramatic literature and provides analyses central to the culture that produced them. Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries evaluates plays in the early years of the republic, reveals shifts in taste from the classical to the contemporary in the 1840s and 1850s, and considers the increasing influence of realism at the end of the nineteenth century. Miller explores the relationship between American drama and societal issues during this period. While never completely shedding its English roots, says Miller, the American drama addressed issues important on this side of the Atlantic such as egalitarianism, republicanism, immigration, slavery, the West, Wall Street, and the Civil War. In considering the theme of egalitarianism, the volume notes Alexis de Tocqueville’s observation in 1831 that equality was more important to Americans than liberty. Also addressed is the Yankee character, which became a staple in American comedy for much of the nineteenth century. Miller analyzes several English plays and notes how David Garrick’s reforms in London were carried over to the colonies. Garrick faced an increasingly middle-class public, offers Miller, and had to make adjustments to plays and to his repertory to draw an audience. The volumealso looks at the shift in drama that paralleled the one in political power from the aristocrats who founded the nation to Jacksonian democrats. Miller traces how the proliferation of newspapers developed a demand for plays that reflected contemporary society and details how playwrights scrambled to put those symbols of the outside world on stage to appeal to the public. Steamships and trains, slavery and adaptations of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and French influences are presented as popular subjects during that time. Entertaining the Nation effectively outlines the civilizing force of drama in the establishment and development of the nation, ameliorating differences among the various theatergoing classes, and provides a microcosm of the changes on and off the stage in America during these two centuries.
Author : Gerald M. Berkowitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317901730
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.
Author : Jürgen Wolter
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1993-09-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313290282
This book seeks to bring to life the prolonged dawning of American drama, to outline America's continued quest for a national drama and theatre, and to provide a survey of the development of dramatic criticism in the United States. For more than a century, dramatists and critics alike were in search of a distinct American drama. Wolter reconstructs this search through the contemporary writing that reflected the attitudes and values of the period and attempted to define the future of the country's theatre. After a historical survey of theatrical criticism in America, Wolter provides a comprehensive anthology of representative texts on the state of America theatre prior to 1915. This is followed by a bibliography of more than 500 articles from over 150 years of American theatrical criticism. Augmented by an index of names and key terms referred to in the texts, the volume is an essential guide for scholars of American theatre and cultural history.
Author : Montrose Jonas Moses
Publisher : New York : Cooper Square Publishers, 1967 [c1934]
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCAL:B4379488
Author : Susan C. W. Abbotson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313027239
American playwrights have made enormous contributions to world drama during the last century, and their works are widely read and performed. This reference conveniently introduces 10 of the most important modern American plays read by students. An introductory essay concisely overviews modern American drama, and each of the chapters that follow examines a particular play. Among the plays discussed are Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, and August Wilson's The Piano Lesson. Each chapter includes a biography, a plot summary, an analysis of the play's themes, characters, and dramatic art, and a review of its historical background and reception. Chapters list works for further reading, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.
Author : Various
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997-08-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0140435883
This unique volume includes eight early dramas that mirror American literary, social, and cultural history: Royall Tylers The Contrast (1789); William Dunlap'sAndre (1798); James Nelson Barker's The Indian Princess (1808); Robert Montgomery Bird's The Gladiator (1831); William Henry Smith's The Drunkard(1844); Anna Cora Mowatt's Fashion (1845); George Aiken's Uncle Tom's Cabin(1852); and Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon (1859). For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Helen H. Palmer,Anne Jane Dyson
Publisher : Hamden, Conn., Shoe String Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : American drama
ISBN : UOM:39015034618945
Author : Jackson R. Bryer,Mary C. Hartig
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 2466 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : American drama
ISBN : 9781438140766
Provides a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to American classics such as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Thornton Wilder's Our Town to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.
Author : Brenda Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1987-08-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521327113
The importance of Native American realism is traced through a study of the evolution of dramatic theory from the early 1890s through World War I and the uniquely American innovations in realistic drama between world wars.
Author : Gilbert Debusscher,Henry I. Schvey,Marc Maufort
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : American drama
ISBN : 9051831072
