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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0787681288
Author : John Stanley Bull
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119944119
Embraces the work of writers working in theatrical traditions ranging from the classic well-made play to the most radical avant-garde pieces. This variety is indicative of the fact that this period is one of the most important in British drama, comparable to the late-Elizabethan/Jacobean and post-Restoration eras in terms of the quantity and quality of new work and surpassing both of them in the sheer variety of theatrical offerings.
Author : John Stanley Bull
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Dramatists, English
ISBN : 0787681288
Author : H. Kosok
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230590649
The Theatre of War surveys more than two hundred plays about the First World War written, published and/or performed in Britain and Ireland between 1909 and 1998. Perspectives discussed include: subject matter, technique and evaluation. The result is an understanding of the First World War as a watershed in international history.
Author : David Ian Rabey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317875383
English Drama Since 1940 considers the bids of successive post-war dramatists to find language and images of remorseless disclosure, appropriate to the public manifestation of sensed crisis and the interrogation of the ideal of renewal. This book introduces the period and its discourse whilst redefining them, to give proper consideration to developments of themes, styles, concerns and contexts from the 80s to the present. The book offers succinct and analytical introductions to the work of 60 dramatists, whilst arguing for (re)appraisal of many dates critical perspectives, in order to stimulate further argument in the field.
Author : James Acheson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349227624
The fifteen essays in this collection, published here for the first time, survey the work of some of the major British and Irish dramatists since 1960. Included are four dramatists - Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Peter Shaffer and Peter Nichols - who began writing plays before 1960, and whose work since then has continued to develop interestingly. Most of the dramatists considered here, however, are those who have begun writing more recently, and who illustrate some of the distinctive characteristics of British and Irish drama of our time.
Author : Greg J. Matthews
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810863675
Literary Research and Irish Literature: Strategies & Sources explores primary and secondary research resources relevant to the study of Irish literary authors, works, genres, and history. Sources covered include general literary research guides; union library catalogs; print and online bibliographies; manuscripts and archives; microfilm and digitization projects; scholarly journals; periodicals, newspapers, and reviews; and electronic and Web resources. To ease comparison and evaluation of references, each chapter addresses how to choose and utilize research methods and tools to yield the most relevant information. This guide also examines the strengths and weaknesses of core and specialized electronic and print research tools and standard search techniques and_when appropriate_covers the historical and cultural contexts and usability issues of unique reference sources. This volume, number 5 in the series, raises trenchant issues in Irish literary scholarship, such as the problem of defining what Irish literature is; gaps in criticism and secondary literature devoted to Irish literature; neglected areas of scholarly inquiry, including Irish literature by women and lesser-known writers; and the rewards of interdisciplinary research. It concludes with a brief consideration of a scenario illustrating how a scholar might use strategies and sources covered in the text to solve a research problem.
Author : Brian Harrison
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191606786
In this, the first of two self-standing volumes bringing The New Oxford History of England up to the present, Brian Harrison begins in 1951 with much of the empire intact and with Britain enjoying high prestige in Europe. The United Kingdom could still then claim to be a great power, whose welfare state exemplified compromise between Soviet planning and the USA’s free market. When the volume ends in 1970, no such claims carried conviction. The empire had gone, central planning was in trouble, and even the British political system had become controversial. In an unusually wide-ranging, yet impressively detailed volume, Harrison approaches the period from unfamiliar directions. He explains how British politicians in the 1950s and 1960s responded to this transition by pursuing successive roles for Britain: worldwide as champion of freedom, and in Europe as exemplar of parliamentary government, the multi-racial society, and economic planning. His main focus, though, rests not on the politicians but on the decisions the British people made largely for themselves: on their environment, social structure and attitudes, race relations, family patterns, economic framework, and cultural opportunities. By 1970 the consumer society had supplanted postwar austerity, the socialist vision was fading, and 'the sixties' (the theme of his penultimate chapter) had introduced new and even exotic themes and values. Having lost an empire, Britain was still resourcefully seeking a role: it had yet to find it.
Author : Martin Middeke,Peter Paul Schnierer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408113462
A thorough and insightful study of the work of twenty-five important Irish playwrights.
Author : Brian Harrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199548750
Seven analytic chapters in this book pursue the massive changes wrought in Britain between 1970 and 1990. They look in detail at the changes in international relations, landscape and townscape, social framework, family and welfare structures, economic policies and realities and government which had occurred by 1990.
Author : Maggie B. Gale,John F. Deeney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317596226
Fifty Modern and Contemporary and Dramatists is a critical introduction to the work of some of the most important and influential playwrights from the 1950s to the present day. The figures chosen are among the most widely studied by students of drama, theatre and literature and include such celebrated writers as: • Samuel Beckett • Caryl Churchill • Anna Deavere Smith • Jean Genet • Sarah Kane • Heiner Müller • Arthur Miller • Harold Pinter • Sam Shephard Each short essay is written by one of an international team of academic experts and offers a detailed analysis of the playwright’s key works and career. The introduction provides an historical and theatrical context to the volume, which provides an invaluable overview of modern and contemporary drama.
Author : Gioia Angeletti
Publisher : Mimesis
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-18T00:00:00+01:00
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9788869772054
From the late 1960s until the present day, a significant number of women playwrights have emerged in Scottish theatre who have made a pioneering contribution to dramatic innovation and experimentation. Despite the critical reassessment of some of these authors in the last twenty years, their invaluable achievement in playwriting, within and outside Scotland, still deserves more thorough investigations and fuller acknowledgement. This work explores what is still uncharted territory by examining a selection of representative texts by Ann Marie di Mambro, Marcella Evaristi, Sue Glover, Jackie Kay, Liz Lochhead, Sharman Macdonald, and Joan Ure. The three macro-thematic areas of the book – the rewriting of the Shakespearean canon; the representation of female communities and minorities; and the conflicts between the self and society – find significant and paradigmatic expression in their dramas. All seven writers examined in this book have explored new theatrical methods, introduced aesthetic innovations and opened new perspectives to engage with the complexities of national, community and individual identities. This study will surely contribute to wider recognition of their achievement, so that their work can never again be described as “uncharted territory”.
Author : James Richard Giles,Wanda H. Giles
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0787660221
Contains biographical sketches of writers who either began writing novels after 1945 or have done their most important work since then.
Author : D. Rabey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230582033
Barker has been acclaimed as 'England's greatest living dramatist' in The Times and as 'the Shakespeare of our age' by Sarah Kane. His uniquely stylish work brings together startlingly original forms of classical discipline, moral ruthlessness and catastrophic eroticism. This study considers the full range of his theatrical achievements.
Author : Elaine Aston,Elin Diamond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521493222
Presents new scholarship on the innovative playwright Caryl Churchill, discussing her major plays alongside topics including sexual politics and terror.