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Author : Thomas F. Connolly
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Bert Cardullo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : American drama
ISBN : 144380035X
"American Drama/Critics: Writings and Readings" is a collection of essays on acknowledged classics of American drama such as "Death of a Salesman," "The Glass Menagerie," and "Our Town," and on newer but no less esteemed works like David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross" and Sam Shepard's "Buried Child." Included are interviews with the great American drama critics Eric Bentley and Stanley Kauffmann; a consideration of the practice of American dramaturgy; an analysis of the adaptation to film of several American dramas; and an examination of experimental playwriting and production in the United States, as seen in the work of Gertrude Stein as well as that of other, lesser-known avant-garde dramatists. This book's thesis is not only the generally accepted one that American drama is essentially a representational one and that its avant-garde experiments are just that--experimental detours that ultimate lead back to the main highway of realism and naturalism. The thesis of "Americam Drama/Critics" is also that the decline of American drama in the late twentieth to early twenty-first century is paralleled by, and even attributable to, the decline or disappearance of American dramatic criticism.
Author : Michael Cotsell
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0820474665
The Theater of Trauma is a groundbreaking rereading of the relations between psychology and drama in the age of Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, and their many brilliant contemporaries. American modernist Theater of Trauma drew its vision from the psychological investigation of trauma and its consequences - among them hysteria and dissociation - made by French and American psychiatrists such as the great Pierre Janet, Alfred Binet, William James, Morton Prince, and W.E.B. Du Bois; the European and American «dissociationist culture» that developed around their work; and the resulting trauma of World War I. American dramatists' deep resistance to Freud's suppression of trauma challenges the equation of Freud and modernism that has become commonplace in modernist criticism.
Author : Alan Seymour Downer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : American drama
ISBN : LCCN:gb66002083
Author : Jürgen Wolter
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : American drama
ISBN : UVA:X000157608
Author : Helen H. Palmer,Anne Jane Dyson
Publisher : Hamden, Conn., Shoe String Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : American drama
ISBN : UOM:39015034618945
Author : Floyd Eugene Eddleman
Publisher : Hamden, Conn. : Shoe String Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : American drama
ISBN : 0208022708
This third supplement (second was 1989) to the second edition (1979) of American drama criticism lists references to American plays published in books, periodicals, and monographs through 1990. This supplement is longer than the earlier ones, although it covers fewer years, mainly because of the app
Author : Alan Seymour Downer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:911699376
Author : Jane F. Bonin
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J : Scarecrow Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015022229317
Author : Montrose Jonas Moses
Publisher : New York : Cooper Square Publishers, 1967 [c1934]
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCAL:B4379488
Author : Jackson R. Bryer,Mary C. Hartig
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438129662
Features a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.
Author : Susan C. W. Abbotson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Tice L. Miller
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0809327783
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 : Julia Listengarten,Cindy Rosenthal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350024755
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 plays to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * Theresa Rebeck: Omnium Gatherum (2003), Mauritius (2007), and The Understudy (2008); * Sarah Ruhl: Eurydice (2003), Clean House (2004), and In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) (2009); * Lynn Nottage: Intimate Apparel (2003), Fabulation or Re-Education of Undine (2004), and Ruined (2008); * Charles Mee: Big Love (2000), Wintertime (2005), and Hotel Cassiopeia (2006).
