Essays On Modern American Drama

Author : Dorothy Parker
Publisher : Sterling/Main Street
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034297387

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Essays on Modern American Drama by Dorothy Parker Pdf

This anthology gathers some of Modern Drama's most distinguished pieces on America's four most important playwrights since Eugene O'Neill: Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, and Sam Shepard. While Parker has chosen these authors "as representative of the main stream of American dramatic tradition," she does not offer a general overview of the plays or playwrights, nor any general orientation to aid the reader. These essays are written by scholars for serious students of American drama. The majority of the essays concentrate on a single play, and while they appeared decades ago, all were major articles in the field. Old but solid, they should still be of interest to students and scholars alike.

Author : Hedwig Bock,Albert Wertheim
Publisher : Munich : M. Hueber
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : American drama
ISBN : UCAL:B4949122

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

Author : William Edwards Taylor
Publisher : DeLand, Fla. : Everett/Edwards
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : American drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035038996

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Modern American Drama: Essays in Criticism by William Edwards Taylor Pdf

Author : Drew Eisenhauer,Brenda Murphy
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476601403

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Intertextuality in American Drama by Drew Eisenhauer,Brenda Murphy Pdf

The new essays in this collection, on such diverse writers as Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, Maurine Dallas Watkins, Sophie Treadwell, and Washington Irving, fill an important conceptual gap. The essayists offer numerous approaches to intertextuality: the influence of the poetry of romanticism and Shakespeare and of histories and novels, ideological and political discourses on American playwrights, unlikely connections between such writers as Miller and Wilder, the problems of intertexts in translation, the evolution in historical and performance contexts of the same tale, and the relationships among feminism, the drama of the courtroom, and the drama of the stage. Intertextuality has been an under-explored area in studies of dramatic and performance texts. The innovative findings of these scholars testify to the continuing vitality of research in American drama and performance.

Author : Alfonso Ceballos Muñoz,,Ramón Espejo Romero,Bernardo Muñoz Martinez
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786488971

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Violence in American Drama by Alfonso Ceballos Muñoz,,Ramón Espejo Romero,Bernardo Muñoz Martinez Pdf

This interdisciplinary collection of 19 essays addresses violence on the American stage. Topics include the revolutionary period and the role of violence in establishing national identity, violence by and against ethnic groups, and females as perpetrators and victims, as well as state and psychological violence and violence within the family. The book works to assess whether representing violence may cause its cessation, or whether it generates further destruction. Featured playwrights include Susan Glaspell, Sophie Treadwell, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Amiri Baraka, Luis Valdes, Cherríe Moraga, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Neil LaBute, John Guare, Rebecca Gilman, and Heather MacDonald.

Author : Julie Adam
Publisher : Springer
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349213634

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Versions of Heroism in Modern American Drama by Julie Adam Pdf

Taking as its starting-point the 'death of tragedy' debate, and focusing on the supposed disappearance from the stage of the individual tragic hero, the book views selected plays and writings on the theatre by Miller, Williams, Maxwell Anderson and O'Neill as exemplifying four versions of heroism: idealism, martyrdom, self-reflection and survival. Julie Adam shows that these diverse playwrights share a desire to redefine tragic heroism in individualistic liberal terms.

Author : Felicia Hardison Londré
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350017498

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Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1940s by Felicia Hardison Londré Pdf

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 : Dorothy Parker
Publisher : Sterling/Main Street
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015010421934

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Essays on Modern American Drama by Dorothy Parker Pdf

This anthology gathers some of Modern Drama's most distinguished pieces on America's four most important playwrights since Eugene O'Neill: Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, and Sam Shepard. While Parker has chosen these authors "as representative of the main stream of American dramatic tradition," she does not offer a general overview of the plays or playwrights, nor any general orientation to aid the reader. These essays are written by scholars for serious students of American drama. The majority of the essays concentrate on a single play, and while they appeared decades ago, all were major articles in the field. Old but solid, they should still be of interest to students and scholars alike.

Author : Alvin B. Kernan
Publisher : Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005349100

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The Modern American Theater by Alvin B. Kernan Pdf

Author : Patricia R. Schroeder
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : William Edwards Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : American drama
ISBN : OCLC:164512961

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Modern American drama by William Edwards Taylor Pdf

Author : June Schlueter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003793630

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Modern American Drama by June Schlueter Pdf

This collection presents twenty essays on twentieth-century plays by women, from Rachel Crothers to Meredith Monk, as well as overview essays on their predecessors. At least a dozen of the essays explicitly treat particular women's texts as dramas of rejection and rebellion.

Author : Mike Sell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350153615

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Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1960s by Mike Sell Pdf

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 plays to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * Edward Albee: The American Dream (1960), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966) and Tiny Alice (1964 ); * Amiri Baraka: Dutchman (1964), The Slave (1964) and Slaveship (1967); * Adrienne Kennedy: Funnyhouse of a Negro (1964), Cities in Bezique (The Owl Answers and A Beast's Story, 1969), and A Rat's Mass (1967); * Jean-Claude van Itallie: American Hurrah (1966), The Serpent (1968) and War (1963).

Author : Robert J. Andreach
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780761864011

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Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre by Robert J. Andreach Pdf

This book refutes the claim that tragedy is no longer a vital and relevant part of contemporary American theatre. Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre examines plays by multiple contemporary playwrights and compares them alongside the works of America’s major twentieth-century tragedians: Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams. The book argues that tragedy is not only present in contemporary American theatre, but issues from an expectation fundamental to American culture: the pressure on characters to create themselves. Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre concludes that tragedy is vital and relevant, though not always in the Aristotelian model, the standard for traditional evaluation.

Author : Gilbert Debusscher,Henry I. Schvey,Marc Maufort
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : American drama
ISBN : 9051831072

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New Essays on American Drama by Gilbert Debusscher,Henry I. Schvey,Marc Maufort Pdf