Modern International Drama

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015067453970

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Modern International Drama by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael L. Greenwald
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0321107918

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The Longman Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Drama by Michael L. Greenwald Pdf

This collection of 31 American and international plays offers a truly global perspective of the drama and theater that has been produced during the past 150 years. In addition to essential plays from the West's modern canon, this anthology offers a richly varied selection of plays from regions underrepresented in other texts, such as Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The book's pedagogical features all work together to provide students with the historical and cultural background they need to read plays into context. Accessible, interesting, and inclusive, the broad range of plays in this anthology will inspire, intrigue, and provoke readers to understand more deeply the literary and production history of modern and contemporary drama. One reviewer says, The coverage is great: in terms of geography, gender, race, aesthetics, and cultural issues, the editors have selected plays that are recognized for their importance within an ongoing narrative history of world drama. I've seen no other anthology like this on the market. Matthew Roudan, Georgia State University

Author : Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Martin Middeke,Peter Paul Schnierer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408176719

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The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary South African Theatre by Martin Middeke,Peter Paul Schnierer Pdf

South Africa has a uniquely rich and diverse theatre tradition which has responded energetically to the country's remarkable transition, helping to define the challenges and contradictions of this young democracy. This volume considers the variety of theatre forms, and the work of the major playwrights and theatre makers producing work in democratic South Africa. It offers an overview of theatre pioneers and theatre forms in Part One, before concentrating on the work of individual playwrights in Part Two. Through its wide-ranging survey of indigenous drama written predominantly in the English language and the analysis of more than 100 plays, a detailed account is provided of post-apartheid South African theatre and its engagement with the country's recent history. Part One offers six overview chapters on South African theatre pioneers and theatre forms. These include consideration of the work of artists such as Barney Simon, Mbongeni Ngema, Phyllis Klotz; the collaborations of William Kentridge and the Handspring Puppet Company; the work of Magnet Theatre, and of physical and popular community theatre forms. Part Two features chapters on twelve major playwrights, including Athol Fugard, Reza de Wet, Lara Foot, Zakes Mda, Yaël Farber, Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom, Mike van Graan and Brett Bailey. It includes a survey of emerging playwrights and significant plays, and the book closes with an interview with Aubrey Sekhabi, the Artistic Director of the South African State Theatre in Pretoria. Written by a team of over twenty leading international scholars, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary South African Theatre is a unique resource that will be invaluable to students and scholars from a range of different disciplines, as well as theatre practitioners.

Author : J. L. Styan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521296285

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Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 1, Realism and Naturalism by J. L. Styan Pdf

This 1981 volume begins with the French revolt against naturalism in theatre and then covers the European realist movement.

Author : Gene A. Plunka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139477413

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Holocaust Drama by Gene A. Plunka Pdf

The Holocaust - the systematic attempted destruction of European Jewry and other 'threats' to the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945 - has been portrayed in fiction, film, memoirs, and poetry. Gene Plunka's study will add to this chronicle with an examination of the theatre of the Holocaust. Including thorough critical analyses of more than thirty plays, this book explores the seminal twentieth-century Holocaust dramas from the United States, Europe, and Israel. Biographical information about the playwrights, production histories of the plays, and pertinent historical information are provided, placing the plays in their historical and cultural contexts.

Author : Patt Leonard,Rebecca Routh
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1563247518

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The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies for 1994 by Patt Leonard,Rebecca Routh Pdf

This text provides a source of citations to North American scholarships relating specifically to the area of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It indexes fields of scholarship such as the humanities, arts, technology and life sciences and all kinds of scholarship such as PhDs.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1432 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027087480

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : American drama
ISBN : UOM:39015085477209

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Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Teresa Cajiao Salas,Margarita Vargas
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438418506

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Women Writing Women by Teresa Cajiao Salas,Margarita Vargas Pdf

While these playwrights articulate concerns similar to those of their male counterparts—social injustice, the question of identity, the role of art, the power of writing—their feminist perspectives offer a fresh view of Spanish America by challenging traditional male representations of women. While the plays humorously reveal the cultural and social politics of each country, they also examine seriously the absurdities of everyday life. The playwrights include Isidora Aguirre (Chile), Sabina Berman (Mexico), Myrna Casas (Puerto Rico), Teresa Marichal (Puerto Rico), Diana Raznovich (Argentina), Mariela Romero (Venezuela), Beatriz Seibel (Argentina), and Maruxa Vilalta (Mexico).

Author : Jane House,Antonio Attisani
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0231071183

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Twentieth-century Italian Drama: The first fifty years by Jane House,Antonio Attisani Pdf

This volume of Twentieth-Century Italian Drama covers the period spanning from the end of the nineteenth century to that immediately following World War II, displaying the rich breadth of Italian theater in the modern age, from the comedic legacy carried on by such writers as Eduardo De Filippo to the delicate tragedy of playwrights like Federigo Tozzi.Included are seven full-length plays, five one-act plays, one variety sketch, and three futurist sintesi (sketches). Brief introductions preceding each play contextualize the piece within the various movements in Italian theater, and biographies of the editors and translators appear at the end of the volume. An extensive bibliography offers many suggestions for further reading in English.The playwrights included are Gabriele D'Annunzio, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Ettore Petrolini, Raffaele Viviani, Pier Maria Rosso di San Secondo, Federigo Tozzi, Massimo Bontempelli, Achille Campanile, Italo Svevo, Luigi Pirandello, Eduardo De Filippo, and Ugo Betti.

Author : Xiaomei Chen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231535540

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The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama by Xiaomei Chen Pdf

This condensed anthology reproduces close to a dozen plays from Xiaomei Chen's well-received original collection, The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama, along with her critical introduction to the historical, cultural, and aesthetic evolution of twentieth-century Chinese spoken drama. Comprising representative works from the Republican era to postsocialist China, the book encapsulates the revolutionary rethinking of Chinese theater and performance that began in the late Qing dynasty and vividly portrays the uncertainty and anxiety brought on by modernism, socialism, political conflict, and war. Chosen works from 1919 to 1990 also highlight the formation of national and gender identities during a period of tremendous social, cultural, and political change in China and the genesis of contemporary attitudes toward the West. PRC theater tracks the rise of communism, juxtaposing ideals of Chinese socialism against the sacrifices made for a new society. Post-Mao drama addresses the nation's socialist legacy, its attempt to reexamine its cultural roots, and postsocialist reflections on critical issues such as nation, class, gender, and collective memories. An essential, portable guide for easy reference and classroom use, this abridgment provides a concise yet well-rounded survey of China's theatricality and representation of political life. The original work not only established a canon of modern Chinese drama in the West but also made it available for the first time in English in a single volume.

Author : James R Russo
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781800858473

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Analyzing Drama by James R Russo Pdf

This play-analysis textbook contains 50 short essays on geographically diverse, historically significant dramas -- among them Major Barbara, Our Town, Hamlet, A Streetcar Named Desire, Romeo and Juliet, Miss Julie, Electra, Death of a Salesman, The Balcony, The Cherry Orchard, Mother Courage, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Old Times. The essays are supported by a Step-by-Step Approach to Play Analysis, a Glossary of Dramatic Terms, Study Guides, Topics for Writing and Discussion, Bibliographical Resources, and a comprehensive Index. Written for university and advanced high school students, these critical essays provide practical models to aid and promote writing and analytical skills. The author is a close reader committed to a detailed yet objective examination of the structure, style, imagery, and language of a play. He is concerned with dramatic analysis that can be of benefit to directors, designers, and even actors. Analysis of character, action, dialogue, and setting can thus be translated into concepts for theatrical production. The three key benefits of ANALYZING DRAMA are: 1. Most so-called play analysis texts are books about the methods and techniques of play analysis but contain few (if any) actual play analyses. The book describes the methods and techniques of play analysis while at the same time providing numerous examples of such analysis. 2. The Topics for Writing and Discussion and Study Guides provide a wide range of set tasks for students. 3. Readings are not biased by any particular social or political doctrine. Aimed at students, teachers, educated readers, and drama aficionados with an interest in world drama in particular and drama studies in general, as well as at theatregoers with an interest in the practice of play analysis and criticism.

Author : Nishan Parlakian
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231502664

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Modern Armenian Drama by Nishan Parlakian Pdf

Available in English for the first time, Modern Armenian Drama presents seven classic works from the Armenian stage. Spanning over a century (1871–1992), the plays explore such diverse themes science and religion, socioeconomic injustice, women's emancipation, and political reform through the medium of all the major European dramatic genres. Nishan Parlakian and S. Peter Cowe provide a comprehensive introduction to the history of Armenian drama, giving a valuable overview of its importance and development in Armenia, as well as a brief biography for each playwright. A preface to each play helps in placing the work within the context of historical and cultural issues of the time. Like the plays of Ibsen and O'Neill, the plays presented in this anthology are considered modern classics. They have an enduring quality and appeal to audiences who see them today. The editors have collected translations of the best examples of Armenian theater from its renaissance in the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

Author : Derek Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 10599 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781136798634

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Censorship by Derek Jones Pdf

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.