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Author : C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1982-07-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521271169
Eugene O'Neill - Clifford Odets - Left-wing theatre - Black drama - Thornton Wilder - Lillian Hellman - Luigi Pirandello - Arthur Miller.
Author : Alan S. Downer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : American drama
ISBN : OCLC:500551594
Author : Alan Seymour Downer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : American drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045024747
Author : Walter J. Meserve
Publisher : Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Reference
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037437279
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415342716
Author : Don Shiach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000-02-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0521655919
Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. This book is written for those beginning a study of American literature as part of an advanced course in English, or for anyone interested in American drama in the 20th century. It aims to encourage readers to explore beyond the few well-known playwrights, and to place the plays as they are read within the context of the development of American society during the 20th century.
Author : Don B. Wilmeth,Christopher Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998-02-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521472040
The Cambridge History of American Theatre is an authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theatre in all its dimensions, from theatre building to play writing, directors, performers, and designers. Engaging the theatre as a performance art, a cultural institution, and a fact of American social and political life, the History recognizes changing styles of presentation and performance and addresses the economic context that conditions the drama presented. The History approaches its subject with a full awareness of relevant developments in literary criticism, cultural analysis, and performance theory. At the same time, it is designed to be an accessible, challenging narrative. Volume One deals with the colonial inceptions of American theatre through the post-Civil War period: the European antecedents, the New World influences of the French and Spanish colonists, and the development of uniquely American traditions in tandem with the emergence of national identity.
Author : Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520051610
This ambitious undertaking is designed to acquaint students, teachers, and researchers with reference sources in any branch of English studies, which Marcuse defines as "all those subjects and lines of critical and scholarly inquiry presently pursued by members of university departments of English language and literature.'' Within each of 24 major sections, Marcuse lists and annotates bibliographies, guides, reviews of research, encyclopedias, dictionaries, journals, and reference histories. The annotations and various indexes are models of clarity and usefulness, and cross references are liberally supplied where appropriate. Although cost-conscious librarians will probably consider the several other excellent literary bibliographies in print, such as James L. Harner's Literary Research Guide (Modern Language Assn. of America, 1989), larger academic libraries will want Marcuse's volume.-- Jack Bales, Mary Washington Coll. Lib., Fredericksburg, Va. -Library Journal.
Author : C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608164208
Author : Kent G. Gallagher
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111370712
No detailed description available for "The foreigner in early American drama".
Author : Jacqueline Foertsch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137605290
An essential introductory textbook that guides students through 300 years of American plays, as well as their remarkable engagement with texts from across the Atlantic. Divided into seven historical periods, Jacqueline Foertsch offers unique overviews of 38 American plays and their reception, from Robert Hunter's Androboros (c.1714) to Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton (2015). Each historical section begins with an overseas play that proved influential to American playwrights in that period, demonstrating to students an astonishing dialogue taking place across the Atlantic. This is an ideal core text for modules on American Drama – or a supplementary text for broader modules on American Literature – which may be offered at the upper levels of an undergraduate literature, drama, theatre studies or American studies degree. In addition it is a crucial resource for students who may be studying American drama as part of a taught postgraduate degree in literature, drama or American studies.
Author : Gerald M. Berkowitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317901723
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 : Felicia Hardison Londré
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350017498
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 works to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * Eugene O'Neill: The Iceman Cometh (1946), A Moon for the Misbegotten (1947), Long Day's Journey Into Night (written 1941, produced 1956), and A Touch of the Poet (written 1942, produced 1958); * Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie (1944), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Summer and Smoke (1948); * Arthur Miller: All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), and The Crucible (1953); * Thornton Wilder: Our Town (1938), The Skin of Our Teeth (1942), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), and The Alcestiad (written 1940s).
Author : Various
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Jackson R. Bryer,Mary C. Hartig
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 53,6 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.
