American Drama Of The Twentieth Century

Author : Gerald M. Berkowitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317901723

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American Drama of the Twentieth Century by Gerald M. Berkowitz Pdf

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 : Susan C. W. Abbotson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313027239

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Masterpieces of 20th-Century American Drama by Susan C. W. Abbotson Pdf

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 : C. W. E. Bigsby,Christopher William Edgar Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1984-11-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521277175

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A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: Volume 2, Williams, Miller, Albee by C. W. E. Bigsby,Christopher William Edgar Bigsby Pdf

Dr Bigsby analyses the early unpublished plays and the major works of Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller and Edward Albee.

Author : Gerald M. Berkowitz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0582016010

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American Drama of the Twentieth Century by Gerald M. Berkowitz Pdf

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 : David Krasner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405137348

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A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama by David Krasner Pdf

This Companion provides an original and authoritative surveyof twentieth-century American drama studies, written by some of thebest scholars and critics in the field. Balances consideration of canonical material with discussion ofworks by previously marginalized playwrights Includes studies of leading dramatists, such as TennesseeWilliams, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill and Gertrude Stein Allows readers to make new links between particular plays andplaywrights Examines the movements that framed the century, such as theHarlem Renaissance, lesbian and gay drama, and the soloperformances of the 1980s and 1990s Situates American drama within larger discussions aboutAmerican ideas and culture

Author : C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1985-05-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521278961

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A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: Volume 3, Beyond Broadway by C. W. E. Bigsby Pdf

The final volume of Christopher Bigsby's critical account of American drama in the twentieth century.

Author : Prentice Hall PTR
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0130501972

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Twentieth-Century American Dramas by Prentice Hall PTR Pdf

Author : Alexander Feldman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136155000

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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.

Author : Edward David Latham
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574412499

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Tonality as Drama by Edward David Latham Pdf

Drawing on the fields of dramaturgy, music theory, and historical musicology, this book answers a question about twentieth-century music: Why does tonality persist in opera, even after it has been abandoned in other genres?

Author : L. Bailey McDaniel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137299574

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(Re)Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth-Century American Drama by L. Bailey McDaniel Pdf

Looking at a century of American theatre, McDaniel investigates how race-based notions of maternal performance become sites of resistance to cultural and political hierarchies. This book considers how the construction of mothering as universally women's work obscures additional, equally constructed subdivisions based in race and class.

Author : Jeffrey H. Richards,Heather S. Nathans
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199731497

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The Oxford Handbook of American Drama by Jeffrey H. Richards,Heather S. Nathans Pdf

This volume explores the history of American drama from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It describes origins of early republican drama and its evolution during the pre-war and post-war periods. It traces the emergence of different types of American drama including protest plays, reform drama, political drama, experimental drama, urban plays, feminist drama and realist plays. This volume also analyzes the works of some of the most notable American playwrights including Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller and those written by women dramatists.

Author : C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1982-07-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521271169

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A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: Volume 1, 1900-1940 by C. W. E. Bigsby Pdf

Eugene O'Neill - Clifford Odets - Left-wing theatre - Black drama - Thornton Wilder - Lillian Hellman - Luigi Pirandello - Arthur Miller.

Author : Paul Thifault
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000598698

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The Routledge Introduction to American Drama by Paul Thifault Pdf

This volume provides an accessible and engaging guide to the study of American dramatic literature. Designed to support students in reading, discussing, and writing about commonly assigned American plays, this text offers timely resources to think critically and originally about key moments on the American stage. Combining comprehensive coverage of the core plays from the post-Revolutionary era to the present, each chapter includes: historical and cultural context of each of the plays and their distinctive literary features clear introductions to the ongoing critical debates they have provoked collaborative prompts for classroom or online discussion annotated bibliographies for further research With its accessible prose style and clear structure, this introduction spotlights specific plays while encouraging students to contemplate timely questions of American identity across its selected span of US theatrical history.

Author : Nadja Klopsch
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640471102

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The American Dream in 20th Century American Drama by Nadja Klopsch Pdf

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Department of English and American Studies), language: English, abstract: Every year thousands of people from all over the world migrate to the United States of America. For most people escaping war, poverty, ecological destruction and other dangers, the United States constitute a safe harbor where their hopes of a better life come true. Ever since the settling of what is today the US, people came to live in the New World and to lead a better life than in their countries of origin. The hopes connected with this better and happier live are all joined in the concept of the "American Dream", which became one of most powerful creation myths of a country. People migrating to the United States have certain dreams or hopes of a better life but in reality these promises often turn out to be not as strong as people originally believed them to be. Only a very small amount of people achieve the famous idea of "rising from rags to riches" whereas many people fail to attain their goal of a better life. Hence it is not surprising that the American culture not only is shaped by the glorious American Dream but also by the grim truth of its failing or being flunked. Of course, such an important concept deeply influences American culture. Continuously the ideas of the American Dream can be found in television, movies, literature, and arts for instance in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby or Gabriele Muccino's film The Pursuit of Happiness. This paper aims to examine the presentment and importance of the American Dream for twentieth century American drama. Drama in general was selected because of its importance as one of the three main literary genres. Temporal narrowing in form of 20th century was chosen because drama as a literary genre is characterized by experimentation with form and content in this period. Furthermore, some of the be

Author : Michael Cotsell
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0820474665

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The Theater of Trauma by Michael Cotsell Pdf

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.