Contemporary American Drama

Author : Annette Saddik
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748630660

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Contemporary American Drama by Annette Saddik Pdf

This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts that experiment with form and content, discussing influential playwrights and performance artists such as Tennessee Williams, Adrienne Kennedy, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Charles Ludlum, Anna Deavere Smith, Karen Finley and Will Power, alongside avant-garde theatre groups. Saddik traces the development of contemporary drama since 1945, and discusses the cross-cultural impact of postwar British and European innovations on American theatre from the 1950s to the present day in order to examine the performance of American identity. She argues that contemporary American theatre is primarily a postmodern drama of inclusion and diversity that destabilizes the notion of fixed identity and questions the nature of reality.

Author : Carla J. McDonough
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786427369

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Staging Masculinity by Carla J. McDonough Pdf

The men in plays such as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman or Sam Shephard's True West are often presented as universal; little attention is given to the gender dynamics involved in the characters. This work looks at how contemporary playwrights, including Miller, Shepard, Eugene O'Neill, David Mamet, and August Wilson, stage masculinity in their works. It becomes apparent that male playwrights return often to the issues of troubled manhood, usually masked in other issues such as war, business or family. The plays indicate both the attractiveness of the model of traditional masculinity and the illusive nature of this image, which all too often fractures and fails the characters who pursue it. O'Neill's play The Hairy Ape and the character Yank receive much attention.

Author : C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000-12-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521794102

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Modern American Drama, 1945-2000 by C. W. E. Bigsby Pdf

New edition of Modern American Drama completes the survey and comes up to 2000.

Author : Gary A. Richardson
Publisher : Heinle & Heinle Publishers
Page : 1218 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : American drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016932688

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American Drama by Gary A. Richardson Pdf

American Drama: Colonial to Contemporary is intended for students of American Drama in English, Theatre, and American Studies courses. Its primary aim is to provide students with a broad historical sense of the transofrmations of American drama from its beginnings to the presnt, making certain that this historical sense is as diverse as possible. As the most comprehensive anthology of American drama available for classroom use, it is a hope that this anthology will foster in the reader an appreciation of the diversity and vitality of the American experience as expressed through drama.

Author : David Palmer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474276948

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Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama by David Palmer Pdf

This volume responds to a renewed focus on tragedy in theatre and literary studies to explore conceptions of tragedy in the dramatic work of seventeen canonical American playwrights. For students of American literature and theatre studies, the assembled essays offer a clear framework for exploring the work of many of the most studied and performed playwrights of the modern era. Following a contextual introduction that offers a survey of conceptions of tragedy, scholars examine the dramatic work of major playwrights in chronological succession, beginning with Eugene O'Neill and ending with Suzan-Lori Parks. A final chapter provides a study of American drama since 1990 and its ongoing engagement with concepts of tragedy. The chapters explore whether there is a distinctively American vision of tragedy developed in the major works of canonical American dramatists and how this may be seen to evolve over the course of the twentieth century through to the present day. Among the playwrights whose work is examined are: Susan Glaspell, Langston Hughes, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, August Wilson, Marsha Norman and Tony Kushner. With each chapter being short enough to be assigned for weekly classes in survey courses, the volume will help to facilitate critical engagement with the dramatic work and offer readers the tools to further their independent study of this enduring theme of dramatic literature.

Author : Hedwig Bock,Albert Wertheim
Publisher : Munich : M. Hueber
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015005888329

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Essays on Contemporary American Drama by Hedwig Bock,Albert Wertheim Pdf

Author : William Herman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003781361

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Understanding Contemporary American Drama by William Herman Pdf

Author : C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521668077

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Contemporary American Playwrights by C. W. E. Bigsby Pdf

A leading writer on American theatre explores the works and influences of ten contemporary American playwrights.

Author : Patricia R. Schroeder
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0838633323

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The Presence of the Past in Modern American Drama by Patricia R. Schroeder Pdf

This study focuses on Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams, who, within the overall framework of formal realism, reshaped dramatic form to depict a past that interacts with the present in complex and often surprising ways. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Award in Modern Drama.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621969846

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American Drama and the Postmodern by Anonim Pdf

Author : Annette J. Saddik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : American drama
ISBN : 1780343485

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Contemporary American Drama by Annette J. Saddik Pdf

This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions.

Author : Christopher Innes,Peter Paul Schnierer,Martin Middeke,Matthew C. Roudané
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408134818

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The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights by Christopher Innes,Peter Paul Schnierer,Martin Middeke,Matthew C. Roudané Pdf

Unrivalled in its coverage of recent work and writers, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights surveys and analyses the breadth, vitality and development of theatrical work to emerge from America over the last fifty years. This authoritative guide leads you through the work of 25 major contemporary American playwrights, discussing more than 140 plays in detail. Written by a team of 25 eminent international scholars, each chapter provides: · a biographical introduction to the playwright's work; · a survey and concise analysis of the writer's most important plays; · a discussion of their style, dramaturgical concerns and critical reception; · a bibliography of published plays and a select list of critical works. Among the many Tony, Obie and Pulitzer prize-winning playwrights included are Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Suzan-Lori Parks, August Wilson, Paula Vogel and Neil LaBute. The abundance of work analysed enables fresh, illuminating conclusions to be drawn about the development of contemporary American playwriting.

Author : Susan C. W. Abbotson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Konstantinos Blatanis
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838640087

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Popular Culture Icons in Contemporary American Drama by Konstantinos Blatanis Pdf

The discussion addresses the task of theater images in a cultural field where the real is mistaken for its reflection, originality constantly played against seriality, at a moment when simulacra, clones, and emulations of selves and texts become firmly established as the norm. The accommodation of pop icons on stage and the results this framing yields constitute this work's primary interests and aims."--Jacket.

Author : Davida Bloom
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786470358

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Rape, Rage and Feminism in Contemporary American Drama by Davida Bloom Pdf

This first-ever study of rape in modern American drama examines portrayals of rape, raped women and rapists in 36 plays written between 1970 and 2007, the period during which the feminist movement made rape a matter of public discourse. These dramas reveal much about sexuality and masculine and feminine identity in the United States. The author traces the impact of second-wave feminism, antifeminist backlash, third-wave feminism and postfeminism on the dramatic depiction of rape. The prevalence of commonly accepted rape myths--that women who dress provocatively invite sexual assault, for example--is well documented, along with equally frequent examples which dispute these myths.