The History Of Southern Drama

Author : Charles S. Watson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780813188898

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The History of Southern Drama by Charles S. Watson Pdf

Mention southern drama at a cocktail party or in an American literature survey, and you may hear cries for "Stella!" or laments for "gentleman callers." Yet southern drama depends on much more than a menagerie of highly strung spinsters and steel magnolias. Charles Watson explores this field from its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century roots through the southern Literary Renaissance and Tennessee Williams's triumphs to the plays of Horton Foote, winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize. Such well known modern figures as Lillian Hellman and DuBose Heyward earn fresh looks, as does Tennessee Williams's changing depiction of the South—from sensitive analysis to outraged indictment—in response to the Civil Rights Movement. Watson links the work of the early Charleston dramatists and of Espy Williams, first modern dramatist of the South, to later twentieth-century drama. Strong heroines in plays of the Confederacy foreshadow the spunk of Tennessee Williams's Amanda Wingfield. Claiming that Beth Henley matches the satirical brilliance of Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor, Watson connects her zany humor to 1840s New Orleans farces. With this work, Watson has at last answered the call for a single-volume, comprehensive history of the South's dramatic literature. With fascinating detail and seasoned perception, he reveals the rich heritage of southern drama.

Author : M. Thomas Inge
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781469616643

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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture by M. Thomas Inge Pdf

Offering a comprehensive view of the South's literary landscape, past and present, this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture celebrates the region's ever-flourishing literary culture and recognizes the ongoing evolution of the southern literary canon. As new writers draw upon and reshape previous traditions, southern literature has broadened and deepened its connections not just to the American literary mainstream but also to world literatures--a development thoughtfully explored in the essays here. Greatly expanding the content of the literature section in the original Encyclopedia, this volume includes 31 thematic essays addressing major genres of literature; theoretical categories, such as regionalism, the southern gothic, and agrarianism; and themes in southern writing, such as food, religion, and sexuality. Most striking is the fivefold increase in the number of biographical entries, which introduce southern novelists, playwrights, poets, and critics. Special attention is given to contemporary writers and other individuals who have not been widely covered in previous scholarship.

Author : Robert L. Mcdonald,Linda Rohrer Paige
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015053494046

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Southern Women Playwrights by Robert L. Mcdonald,Linda Rohrer Paige Pdf

This timely collection addresses the neglected state of scholarship on southern women dramatists by bringing together the latest criticism on some of the most important playwrights of the 20th century. Coeditors Robert McDonald and Linda Rohrer Paige attribute the neglect of southern women playwrights in scholarly criticism to "deep historical prejudices" against drama itself and against women artists in general, especially in the South. Their call for critical awareness is answered by the 15 essays they include in Southern Women Playwrights, considerations of the creative work of universally acclaimed playwrights such as Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, and Lillian Hellman (the so-called "Trinity") in addition to that of less-studied playwrights, including Zora Neale Hurston, Carson McCullers, Alice Childress, Naomi Wallace, Amparo Garcia, Paula Vogel, and Regina Porter. This collection springs from a series of associated questions regarding the literary and theatrical heritage of the southern woman playwright, the unique ways in which southern women have approached the conventional modes of comedy and tragedy, and the ways in which the South, its types and stereotypes, its peculiarities, its traditions-both literary and cultural-figure in these women's plays. Especially relevant to these questions are essays on Lillian Hellman, who resisted the label "southern writer," and Carson McCullers, who never attempted to ignore her southernness. This book begins by recovering little-known or unknown episodes in the history of southern drama and by examining the ways plays assumed importance in the lives of southern women in the early 20th century. It concludes with a look at one of the most vibrant, diverse theatre scenes outside New York today-Atlanta.

Author : Margot Berthold
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015001291427

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The History of World Theater by Margot Berthold Pdf

In this survey of the development of the world of theatre up to the Baroque period, Margaret Berthold discusses such phenomena as the demon dance of a masked shaman, the tragedie classique of Corneille and Racine, the Egyptian Osiris festival ceremonies, and Italian commedia dell'arte improvizations. She looks at theatre in Islamic civilizations, Indonesia, India, China, Japan, Greece and Rome, in the Byzantine Empire and Europe of the Middle Ages."

Author : Cecelia Moore
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498526838

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The Federal Theatre Project in the American South by Cecelia Moore Pdf

The Federal Theatre Project in the American South introduces the people and projects that shaped the regional identity of the Federal Theatre Project. When college theatre director Hallie Flanagan became head of this New Deal era jobs program in 1935, she envisioned a national theatre comprised of a network of theatres across the country. A regional approach was more than organizational; it was a conceptual model for a national art. Flanagan was part of the little theatre movement that had already developed a new American drama drawn from the distinctive heritage of each region and which they believed would, collectively, illustrate a national identity. The Federal Theatre plan relied on a successful regional model – the folk drama program at the University of North Carolina, led by Frederick Koch and Paul Green. Through a unique partnership of public university, private philanthropy and community participation, Koch had developed a successful playwriting program and extension service that built community theatres throughout the state. North Carolina, along with the rest of the Southern region, seemed an unpromising place for government theatre. Racial segregation and conservative politics limited the Federal Theatre’s ability to experiment with new ideas in the region. Yet in North Carolina, the Project thrived. Amateur drama units became vibrant community theatres where whites and African Americans worked together. Project personnel launched The Lost Colony, one of the first so-called outdoor historical dramas that would become its own movement. The Federal Theatre sent unemployed dramatists, including future novelist Betty Smith, to the university to work with Koch and Green. They joined other playwrights, including African American writer Zora Neale Hurston, who came to North Carolina because of their own interest in folk drama. Their experience, told in this book, is a backdrop for each successive generation’s debates over government, cultural expression, art and identity in the American nation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : American literature
ISBN : UVA:X000611101

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The Southern Quarterly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Boston Public Library. South Boston Branch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU55872646

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Catalogue of Books in the South Boston Branch Library of the Boston Public Library by Boston Public Library. South Boston Branch Pdf

Author : William Lee Pryor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : American drama
ISBN : UGA:32108011064279

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An Examination of the Southern Milieu in Representative Plays by Southern Dramatists, 1923-1956 by William Lee Pryor Pdf

Author : Pat Conroy
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307804730

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Beach Music by Pat Conroy Pdf

An American expatriate in Rome unearths his family legacy in this sweeping novel by the acclaimed author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini A Southerner living abroad, Jack McCall is scarred by tragedy and betrayal. His desperate desire to find peace after his wife’s suicide draws him into a painful, intimate search for the one haunting secret in his family’s past that can heal his anguished heart. Spanning three generations and two continents, from the contemporary ruins of the American South to the ancient ruins of Rome, from the unutterable horrors of the Holocaust to the lingering trauma of Vietnam, Beach Music sings with life’s pain and glory. It is a novel of lyric intensity and searing truth, another masterpiece among Pat Conroy’s legendary and beloved novels. Praise for Beach Music “Astonishing . . . stunning . . . The range of passions and subjects that bring life to every page is almost endless.”—The Washington Post Book World “Magnificent . . . clearly Conroy’s best.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Blockbuster writing at its best.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Pat Conroy’s writing contains a virtue now rare in most contemporary fiction: passion.”—The Denver Post “A powerful, heartfelt tale.”—Houston Chronicle

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : English drama
ISBN : UOM:39015001599847

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The Revels History of Drama in English: Sanders, N., Southern, R., Craik, T. W. & Potter, L. 1500-1576 by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Gillette
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1377107132

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An American Drama Arranged in Four Acts and Entitled Secret Service; A Romance of the Southern Confederacy by William Gillette Pdf

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Author : Kimball King
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : UCSC:32106019056412

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Western Drama Through the Ages by Kimball King Pdf

With a focus on Western countries, the history of theater from 500 B.C. to the present is recounted, as are the contributions of different countries, specific plays, and theatrical techniques. Covers movements and issues such as African American, biblical, outdoor, and contemporary drama that addresses spiritual belief, gay theater, gender, and musical theater. Genres and styles are discussed, as well as theater in practice, with descriptions of directing, acting, voice coaching, dramaturgy, costume design, and stages.

Author : Loren Kruger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134680863

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The Drama of South Africa by Loren Kruger Pdf

Annotation Chronicles the development of dramatic writing and performance from the time South Africa was established to post-apartheid. Investigates the impact of sketches and manifestos, and the oral preservation of scripts that could not be written.

Author : Kathryn Bosher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139510332

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Theater Outside Athens by Kathryn Bosher Pdf

This volume brings together archeologists, art historians, philologists, literary scholars, political scientists, and historians to articulate the ways in which western Greek theater was distinct from that of the Greek mainland and, at the same time, to investigate how the two traditions interacted. The chapters intersect and build on each other in their pursuit of a number of shared questions and themes: the place of theater in the cultural life of Sicilian and South Italian 'colonial cities;' theater as a method of cultural self-identification; shared mythological themes in performance texts and theatrical vase-painting; and the reflection and analysis of Sicilian and South Italian theater in the work of Athenian philosophers and playwrights. Together, the essays explore central problems in the study of western Greek theater. By gathering a number of different perspectives and methods, this volume offers the first wide-ranging examination of this hitherto neglected history.

Author : John D. Cox,David Scott Kastan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0231102437

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A New History of Early English Drama by John D. Cox,David Scott Kastan Pdf

Twenty-six original essays by leading theorists and historians of the pre-seventeenth-century English stage chart a paradigmatic shift within the field. In contrast to the traditional emphasis on individual authors, the contributors to this storehouse of new historical information and critical insight explore the place of the stage within the larger society, as well as issues of performance and physical space, providing an innovative approach to both literary studies and cultural history.