British Drama

Author : Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 081563076X

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A Reader's Guide to Modern British Drama by Sanford Sternlicht Pdf

This book reveals the influences of modern history and psychology on British drama; the all-important influence of Irish dramatists like Wilde, Shaw, O’Casey, and Beckett; the significance of the Independent Theatre of J. T. Grein and the early Royal Court Theatre; the gay community’s contribution to the British theater; the powerful new feminist drama; and the British festival theater. Auseful tool for readers wishing to know more about Britain’s great dramatic tradition and vital contemporary theater, for students pursuing drama studies, and for libraries in need of an accessible reference work.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1804
Category : English drama
ISBN : PSU:000027022740

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The British Drama by Anonim Pdf

Author : British drama
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1811
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600019079

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The modern British drama by British drama Pdf

Author : Richard Cumberland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1817
Category : English drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015741874

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The British Drama by Richard Cumberland Pdf

Author : Michelene Wandor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134773114

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Post-war British Drama: Looking Back in Gender by Michelene Wandor Pdf

In this extensively revised and updated edition of her classic work, Look Back in Gender, Michelene Wandor confirms the symbiotic relationship between drama and gender in a provocative look at key, representative British plays from the last fifty years. Repositioning the text at the heart of hteatre studies, Wandor surveys plays by Ayckbourn, Beckett, Churchill, Daniels, Friel, Hare, Kane, Osborne, Pinter, Ravenhill, Wertenbaker, Wesker and others. Her nuanced argument, central to any analysis of contemporary drama, discusses: *the imperative of gender in the playwright's imagination *the function of gender as a major determinant of the text's structural and narrative drives *the impact of socialism and feminism on post-war British drama, and the relevance of feminist dynamics in drama *differences in the representation of the fmaily, sexuality and the mother, before and after 1968 *the impact of the slogan that the 'personal is political' on contemporary form and content.

Author : Korbinian Stöckl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110714760

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Love in Contemporary British Drama by Korbinian Stöckl Pdf

Despite the recent turn to affects and emotions in the humanities and despite the unceasing popularity of romantic and erotic love as a motif in fictional works of all genres, the subject has received surprisingly little attention in academic studies of contemporary drama. Love in Contemporary British Drama reflects the appeal of love as a topic and driving force in dramatic works with in-depth analyses of eight pivotal plays from the past three decades. Following an interdisciplinary and historical approach, the study collects and condenses theories of love from philosophy and sociology to derive persisting discourses and to examine their reoccurrence and transformation in contemporary plays. Special emphasis is put on narratives of love’s compensatory function and precariousness and on how modifications of these narratives epitomise the peculiarities of emotional life in the social and cultural context of the present. Based on the assumption that drama is especially inclined to draw on shared narratives for representations of love, the book demonstrates that love is both a window to remnants of the past in the present and a proper subject matter for drama in times in which the suitability of the dramatic form has been questioned.

Author : Elizabeth Hale Winkler
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874133580

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The Function of Song in Contemporary British Drama by Elizabeth Hale Winkler Pdf

This comprehensive study formulates an original theory that dramatic song must be perceived as a separate genre situated between poetry, music, and theater. It focuses on John Arden, Margaretta D'Arcy, Edward Bond, Peter Barnes, John Osborne, Peter Nichols, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Peter Shaffer, and John McGrath.

Author : Martin Wiggins,Catherine Richardson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199265725

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British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue by Martin Wiggins,Catherine Richardson Pdf

Volume 3 covers the years 1590-1597 and sees the start of Shakespeare's career as a dramatist.

Author : Ignacio Ramos Gay
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443868693

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Adaptations, Versions and Perversions in Modern British Drama by Ignacio Ramos Gay Pdf

This book aims to explore which plays were deemed ‘suitable’ to be reworked for foreign or local stages; what transformations – linguistic, semiotic, theatrical – were undertaken so as to accommodate international audiences; how national literary traditions are forged, altered, and diluted by means of transnational adapting techniques; and, finally, to what extent the categorical boundaries between original plays and adaptations may be blurred on the account of such adjusting textual strategies. It brings together ten articles that scrutinise the linguistic, social, political and theatrical complexities inherent in the intercultural transference of plays. The approaches presented by the different contributors investigate modern British theatre as an instance of diachronic and synchronic transnational adaptations based upon a myriad of influences originating in, and projected upon, other national dramatic traditions. These traditions, rooted in relatively distant geographies and epochs, are traced so as to illustrate the split between the state-imposed identity and personal, subjective identity caused by cultural negotiations of the self in an age of globalism. International frontiers are thus pointed at in order to claim the need to be transcended in the process of cultural re-appropriation associated with theatre performance for international audiences.

Author : Harry Derbyshire
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781535854054

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Gale Researcher Guide for: The Brechtian Turn in British Drama: Edward Bond and Caryl Churchill by Harry Derbyshire Pdf

Gale Researcher Guide for: The Brechtian Turn in British Drama: Edward Bond and Caryl Churchill is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Author : British drama
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590118671

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The British drama; a collection of the most esteemed tragedies, comedies, operas, and farces, in the English language by British drama Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1804
Category : English drama
ISBN : IOWA:31858009538210

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British Drama: pt 1-2. Tragedies. v.2, pt. 1-2. Comedies. v.3. Operas and Farces by Anonim Pdf

Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : English drama
ISBN : 0521129478

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English Drama, 1900-1930 by Allardyce Nicoll Pdf

Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521109310

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A History of English Drama 1660-1900 by Allardyce Nicoll Pdf

Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.

Author : Katharine Lee Bates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : English drama
ISBN : NYPL:33433076066517

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English Drama by Katharine Lee Bates Pdf