Modern Drama By Women 1880s 1930s

Author : Katherine E. Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134802371

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Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s by Katherine E. Kelly Pdf

Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s offers the first direct evidence that women playwrights helped create the movement known as Modern Drama. It contains twelve plays by women from the Americas, Europe and Asia, spanning a national and stylistic range from Swedish realism to Russian symbolism. Six of these plays are appearing in their first English-language translation. Playwrights include: * Anne-Charlotte Leffler Edgren (Sweden) * Amelai Pincherle Rosselli (Italy) * Elsa Berstein (Germany) * Elizabeth Robins (Britain) * Marie Leneru (France) * Alfonsina Storni (Argentina) * Hella Wuolijoki (Finland) * Hasegawa Shigure (Japan) * Rachilde (France) * Zinaida Gippius (Russia) * Djuna Barnes (USA) * Marita Bonner (USA) This groundbreaking anthology explodes the traditional canon. In these plays, the New Woman represents herself and her crises in all of the styles and genres available to the modern dramatist. Unprecedented in diversity and scope, it is a collection which no scholar, student or lover of modern drama can afford to miss.

Author : CHARLES M. KELLY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0415124948

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Modern Drama by Women 1880s - 1930s by CHARLES M. KELLY Pdf

Author : Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199658770

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Modern Drama by Kirsten Shepherd-Barr Pdf

This book tells the story of modern drama through its seminal, groundbreaking plays and performances, and the artistic diversity that these represent. Exploring the new note of artistic hostility between dramatists and their audience, Shepherd-Barr draws on a range of theories and performances to reveal what makes modern drama 'modern'.

Author : David Krasner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444343748

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A History of Modern Drama, Volume I by David Krasner Pdf

Covering the period 1879 to 1959, and taking in everything from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is volume one of a two-part comprehensive examination of the plays, dramatists, and movements that comprise modern world drama. Contains detailed analysis of plays and playwrights, connecting themes and offering original interpretations Includes coverage of non-English works and traditions to create a global view of modern drama Considers the influence of modernism in art, music, literature, architecture, society, and politics on the formation of modern dramatic literature Takes an interpretative and analytical approach to modern dramatic texts rather than focusing on production history Includes coverage of the ways in which staging practices, design concepts, and acting styles informed the construction of the dramas

Author : John Henry Ottemiller,Denise L. Montgomery
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780810877207

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Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections by John Henry Ottemiller,Denise L. Montgomery Pdf

The standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States since the beginning of the 20th century, Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections has undergone seven previous editions, the latest in 1988, covering 1900 through 1985. In this new edition, Denise Montgomery has expanded the volume to include collections published in the entire English-speaking world through 2000 and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors. Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume is a valuable resource for libraries worldwide.

Author : Cicely Hamilton
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781770481145

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Diana of Dobson's by Cicely Hamilton Pdf

Very successful when first performed in London in 1908, Diana of Dobson's introduces its audience to the overworked and underpaid female assistants at Dobson's Drapery Emporium, whose only alternative to their dead-end jobs is the unlikely prospect of marriage. Although Cicely Hamilton calls the play "a romantic comedy," like George Bernard Shaw she also criticizes a social structure in which so-called self-made men profit from the cheap labour of others, and men with good educations, but insufficient inherited money, look for wealthy wives rather than for work. This Broadview edition also includes excerpts from Hamilton's autobiography Life Errant (1935) and Marriage as a Trade (1909), her witty polemic on "the woman question"; historical documents illustrating employment options for women and women's work in the theatre; and reviews of the original production of the play.

Author : Anu Koivunen
Publisher : Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789522227713

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Performative Histories, Foundational Fictions by Anu Koivunen Pdf

Films are integral to national imagination. Promotional publicity markets “domestic films” not only as entertaining, exciting, or moving, but also as topical and relevant in different ways. Reviewers assess new films with reference to other films and cultural products as well as social and political issues. Through such interpretive framings by contemporaries and later generations, popular cinema is embedded both in national imagination and endless intertextual and intermedial frameworks. Moreover, films themselves become signs to be cited and recycled as illustrations of cultural, social, and political history as well as national mentality. In the age of television, “old films” continue to live as history and memory. In Performative Histories, Foundational Fictions, Anu Koivunen analyzes the historicity as well as the intertextuality and intermediality of film reception by focusing on a cycle of Finnish family melodrama and its key role in thinking about gender, sexuality, nation, and history. Close-reading posters, advertisements, publicity-stills, trailers, review journalism, and critical commentary, she demonstrates how The Women of Niskavuori (1938 and 1958), Loviisa (1946), Heta Niskavuori (1952), Aarne Niskavuori (1954), Niskavuori Fights (1957), and Niskavuori (1984) have operated as sites for imagining “our agrarian past”, our Heimat and heritage as well as “the strong Finnish woman” or “the weak man in crisis”. Based on extensive empirical research, Koivunen argues that the Niskavuori films have mobilized readings in terms of history and memory, feminist nationalism and men’s movement, left-wing allegories and right-wing morality as well as realism and melodrama. Through processes of citation, repetition, and re-cycling the films have acquired not only a heterogeneous and contradictory interpretive legacy, but also an affective force.

Author : Penny Farfan,Lesley Ferris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137270801

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Contemporary Women Playwrights by Penny Farfan,Lesley Ferris Pdf

Breaking new ground in this century, this wide-ranging collection of essays is the first of its kind to address the work of contemporary international women playwrights. The book considers the work of established playwrights such as Caryl Churchill, Marie Clements, Lara Foot-Newton, Maria Irene Fornes, Sarah Kane, Lisa Kron, Young Jean Lee, Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Djanet Sears, Caridad Svich, and Judith Thompson, but it also foregrounds important plays by many emerging writers. Divided into three sections-Histories, Conflicts, and Genres-the book explores such topics as the feminist history play, solo performance, transcultural dramaturgies, the identity play, the gendered terrain of war, and eco-drama, and encompasses work from the United States, Canada, Latin America, Oceania, South Africa, Egypt, and the United Kingdom. With contributions from leading international scholars and an introductory overview of the concerns and challenges facing women playwrights in this new century, Contemporary Women Playwrights explores the diversity and power of women's playwriting since 1990, highlighting key voices and examining crucial critical and theoretical developments within the field.

Author : M. Cody Poulton
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780824833411

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A Beggar's Art by M. Cody Poulton Pdf

Essential reading for the growing number of Westerners interested in the roots of modern Japanese theatre

Author : William W. Demastes,Katherine Kelly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313032653

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British Playwrights, 1880-1956 by William W. Demastes,Katherine Kelly Pdf

From 1880 to 1956, when John Osborne transformed the British theater world with Look Back in Anger, British playwrights made numerous lasting contributions and provided a foundation for the innovations of dramatists during the latter half of the 20th century. This reference profiles the life and work of some 40 British playwrights active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many of whom are also known for their work as novelists and poets. Included are figures such as W. H. Auden, Max Beerbohm, Noel Coward, T. S. Eliot, John Galsworthy, Graham Greene, D. H. Lawrence, W. Somerset Maugham, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde. Each entry provides a biographical overview; a list of major plays and summaries of their critical reception; a list of minor plays, adaptations, and productions; an assessment of the playwright's career; and archival and bibliographical information. Included in this reference book are alphabetically arranged entries for some 40 British playwrights active from 1880 through 1956. Entries are written by expert contributors, with each entry providing a biographical overview; a list of major plays, premieres, and significant revivals, along with a summary of the critical reception of these works; a listing of additional plays, adaptations, and productions; an assessment of the playwright's career and contributions, with reference to published evaluations in magazines, journals, dissertations, and books; a listing of locations housing unpublished archival material, if available; a selected bibliography of the dramatist's published plays and of essays and articles by the playwright on aspects of the theater; a selected bibliography of secondary sources; and, when available, a listing of previously published bibliographies on the playwright.

Author : Rebecca D'Monte
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408166017

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British Theatre and Performance 1900-1950 by Rebecca D'Monte Pdf

British theatre from 1900 to 1950 has been subject to radical re-evaluation with plays from the period setting theatres alight and gaining critical acclaim once again; this book explains why, presenting a comprehensive survey of the theatre and how it shaped the work that followed. Rebecca D'Monte examines how the emphasis upon the working class, 'angry' drama from the 1950s has led to the neglect of much of the century's earlier drama, positioning the book as part of the current debate about the relationship between war and culture, the middlebrow, and historiography. In a comprehensive survey of the period, the book considers: - the Edwardian theatre; - the theatre of the First World War, including propaganda and musicals; -the interwar years, the rise of commercial theatre and influence of Modernism; - the theatre of the Second World War and post-war period. Essays from leading scholars Penny Farfan, Steve Nicholson and Claire Cochrane give further critical perspectives on the period's theatre and demonstrate its relevance to the drama of today. For anyone studying 20th-century British Drama this will prove one of the foundational texts.

Author : Emmanuel S. Nelson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313052897

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African American Dramatists by Emmanuel S. Nelson Pdf

Despite their significant contributions to the American theater, African American dramatists have received less critical attention than novelists and poets. This reference offers thorough critical assessments of the lives and works of African American playwrights from the 19th century to the present. The book alphabetically arranges entries on more than 60 dramatists, including James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Ossie Davis, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a summary of the playwright's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography. African American dramatists have made enormous contributions to the theater and their works are included in numerous editions and anthologies. Some of the most popular plays of the 20th century have been written by African Americans, and high school students and undergraduates study their works. But for all their popularity and influence, African American playwrights have received less critical attention than poets and novelists. This reference offers thorough critical assessments of more than 60 African American dramatists from the 19th century to the present.

Author : Christopher Innes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998-09-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521566339

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The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw by Christopher Innes Pdf

This volume covers all aspects of Shaw's drama, focusing both on the political and theatrical context, while the illustrations showcase productions from the Shaw Festival in Canada.

Author : Penny Farfan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521837804

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Women, Modernism, and Performance by Penny Farfan Pdf

Women, Modernism, and Performance is an interdisciplinary 2004 study that looks at a variety of texts and modes of performance in order to clarify the position of women within - and in relation to - modern theatre history. Considering drama, fiction and dance, as well as a range of performance events such as suffrage demonstrations, lectures, and legal trials, Penny Farfan expands on theatre historical narratives that note the centrality of female characters in male-authored modern plays but that do not address the efforts of women artists to develop alternatives both to mainstream theatre practice and to the patriarchal avant garde. Focusing on Henrik Ibsen, Elizabeth Robins, Ellen Terry, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, Edith Craig, Radclyffe Hall and Isadora Duncan, Farfan identifies different objectives, strategies, possibilities and limitations of feminist-modernist performance practice and suggests how the artists in question transformed the representation of gender in art and life.

Author : Katherine E. Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521645921

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The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard by Katherine E. Kelly Pdf

Companion to the work of playwright Tom Stoppard who also co-authored screenplay of Shakespeare in Love.