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Author : Kathryn Ann Berney,N. G. Templeton
Publisher : Saint James Press
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015032200639
Concise discussions of the lives and principal works of contemporary British playwrights, written by subject experts.
Author : Christopher Innes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521016754
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Author : Dan Rebellato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134657827
It is said that British Drama was shockingly lifted out of the doldrums by the 'revolutionary' appearance of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court in May 1956. But had the theatre been as ephemeral and effeminate as the Angry Young Men claimed? Was the era of Terence Rattigan and 'Binkie' Beaumont as repressed and closeted as it seems? In this bold and fascinating challenge to the received wisdom of the last forty years of theatrical history, Dan Rebellato uncovers a different story altogether. It is one where Britain's declining Empire and increasing panic over the 'problem' of homosexuality played a crucial role in the construction of an enduring myth of the theatre. By going back to primary sources and rigorously questioning all assumptions, Rebellato has rewritten the history of the Making of Modern British Drama.
Author : John Russell Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015008714530
Essays on Osborne, Pinter, Wesker, Beckett, Whiting, and other modern British dramatists.
Author : Kimball King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136521195
This comprehensive collection gathers critical essays on the major works of the foremost American and British playwrights of the 20th century, written by leading figures in drama/performance studies.
Author : David Lane
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748686797
This book offers an extended analysis of writers and theatre companies in Britain since 1995, and explores them alongside recent cultural, social and political developments. Referencing well-known practitioners from modern theatre, this book is an excelle
Author : Hersh Zeifman,Cynthia Zimmerman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1993-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349108190
This book focuses exclusively on the exciting and provocative plays produced in England in the last two decades. The primary aim of the collection is to celebrate the truly remarkable range of British drama since 1970, by examining the work of fourteen important and representative playwrights. This emphasis on range applies not only to the dramatists chosen for inclusion but to the critics as well - specifically to the diversity of critical methodology demonstrated in their essays.
Author : R. Barton Palmer,William Robert Bray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107652408
This collection of essays offers the first comprehensive treatment of British and American films adapted from modern British plays. Offering insights into the mutually profitable relationship between the newest performance medium and the most ancient. With each chapter written by an expert in the field, Modern British Drama on Screen focuses on key playwrights of the period including George Bernard Shaw, Somerset Maugham, Terence Rattigan, Noel Coward and John Osborne and the most significant British drama of the past century from Pygmalion to The Madness of George III. Most chapters are devoted to single plays and the transformations they underwent in the move from stage to screen. Ideally suited for classroom use, this book offers a semester's worth of introductory material for the study of theater and film in modern Britain, widely acknowledged as a world center of dramatic productions for both the stage and screen.
Author : Mary Brewer,Lynette Goddard,Deirdre Osborne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137506290
This indispensable overview of modern black British drama spans seven decades of distinctive playwriting from the 1950s to the present. Interweaving social and cultural context with close critical analysis of key dramatists' plays, leading scholars explore how these dramatists have created an enduring, transformative and diverse cultural presence.
Author : Roger Cornish,Violet Ketels
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015012204270
Author : John Russell Brown
Publisher : Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble Books ; London : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015005523843
Author : Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 081563076X
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 : Lewes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00048199
Author : Mary Luckhurst
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470751473
This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity. An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama. Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism. Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma.
Author : Mary F. Brewer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781000691511
The Bible and Modern British Drama: 1930 to the Present Day is the first full-length study to explore how playwrights in the modern period have adapted popular biblical stories, such as Abraham and Isaac, Moses and the Exodus from Egypt, and the life and death of Jesus, for the stage. The book offers detailed and accessible interpretations of the work of well-known dramatists such as Christopher Fry, Howard Brenton, and Steven Berkoff, alongside the work of writers whose plays have been neglected in recent criticism, such as James Bridie and Laurence Housman. The drama is analysed within the context of changes in religious belief and practice over the course of the modern period in Britain, comparing plays that approach the Bible from a traditional religious perspective with those that offer alternative viewpoints on the text, including the voices of gay, feminist, black, Jewish, and Muslim dramatists. In doing so, the author offers a broad and in-depth exploration that is grounded in current scholarship, ranging from the past to present, across boundaries of race and gender. Ideal for students, researchers, and general readers interested in understanding how the Bible has served as an important source text for British playwrights in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, The Bible and Modern British Drama shows how Bible-based drama has been influential in creating and disseminating ideas of what constitutes a "good" life, both on an individual and social level.