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Author : Lee A. Jacobus
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015005154391
Author : Michael Greenwald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0321077903
Author : Lee A. Jacobus
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : American drama
ISBN : IND:39000001832794
Author : Michael L. Greenwald
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0321107918
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 : Michael L. Greenwald,Roger Schultz,Roberto Darío Pomo
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110434870
The Longman Anthology of Drama and Theater, Compact Edition, is a fully-integrated text/anthology of drama with a global emphasis for the Introduction to Drama course. The Compact Edition is divided into three parts. Part One examines the roots of theater and the theoretical and critical foundations of theater and drama. Part Two, an anthology of Western Theater, and Part Three, an anthology of non-western theater, are divided into historical and geographical sections, each preceded by a brief overview of the cultural and historical context that shaped the plays. A map and timeline of key historical, cultural, and artistic events precedes each section in Parts II and III. Preceding each section of plays is a brief overview of the history of the theater from its origins in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas to the present. The ideas that inspired the dramas are considered, as well as the particulars of each performance. In the interest of creating a clean, uncluttered text, selected bibliographies are at the end of the book. Questions for Discussion and Writing are included in the accompanying Instructor's Manual, as well as more thorough bibliographies and a comprehensive list of films and videos that illustrate the ideas in the text.
Author : Don B. Wilmeth,Christopher Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521669596
Volume three of a unique three-volume history covering all aspects of American theatre.
Author : James Fisher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810878334
The Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings covers the history of early American Theatre through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on actors and actresses, directors, playwrights, producers, genres, notable plays and theatres. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the early American Theater.
Author : Gerald M. Berkowitz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0582016010
In this book Professor Berkowitz studies the diversity of American drama from the stylistic, experimental plays of O'Neill, through verse, tragedy and community theatre, to the theatre of the 1990s. The discussions range through dramatists, plays, genres and themes, with full supporting appendix material. It also examines major dramatists such as Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, Sam Shephard, Tennessee Williams and August Wilson and covers not only the Broadway scene but also off Broadway movements and fringe theatres and such subjects as women's and African-American drama.
Author : Elizabeth A. Osborne,Christine Woodworth
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780809334209
Theatre has long been an art form of subterfuge and concealment. Working in the Wings, edited by Elizabeth A. Osborne and Christine Woodworth, brings attention to what goes on behind-the-scenes in this essay collection that considers, challenges, and revises our understanding of work, theatre, and history.
Author : Philip C. Kolin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781351983709
In the twenty years that preceded the publication of this book in 1988, David Rabe was in the vanguard of playwrights who shaped American theatre. As the first full-length work on Rabe, this book laid the groundwork for later critical and biographical studies. The first part consists of an essay that covers three sections: a short biography, a summary and evaluation of his formative journalism for the New Haven Register, and a detailed and cohesive stage history of his work. The second part presents the most comprehensive and authoritative primary bibliography of Rabe to date, with the third section containing a secondary bibliography — including a section on biographical studies.
Author : Werner Sollors Professor of American Literature and Afro-American Studies Harvard University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1986-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198020721
Nothing is "pure" in America, and, indeed, the rich ethnic mix that constitutes our society accounts for much of its amazing vitality. Werner Sollors's new book takes a wide-ranging look at the role of "ethnicity" in American literature and what that literature has said--and continues to say--about our diverse culture. Ethnic consciousness, he contends, is a constituent feature of modernism, not modernism's antithesis. Discussing works from every period of American history, Sollors focuses particularly on the tension between "descent" and "consent"--between the concern for one's racial, ethnic, and familial heritage and the conflicting desire to choose one's own destiny, even if that choice goes against one's heritage. Some of the stories Sollors examines are retellings of the biblical Exodus--stories in which Americans of the most diverse origins have painted their own histories as an escape from bondage or a search for a new Canaan. Other stories are "American-made" tales of melting-pot romance, which may either triumph in intermarriage, accompanied by new world symphonies, or end with the lovers' death. Still other stories concern voyages of self-discovery in which the hero attempts to steer a perilous course between stubborn traditionalism and total assimilation. And then there are the generational sagas, in which, as if by magic, the third generation emerges as the fulfillment of their forebears' dream. Citing examples that range from the writings of Cotton Mather to Liquid Sky (a "post-punk" science fiction film directed by a Russian emigre), Sollors shows how the creators of American culture have generally been attracted to what is most new and modern. About the Author: Werner Sollors is Chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department at Harvard University and the author of Amiri Baraka: The Quest for a Populist Modernism. A provocative and original look at "ethnicity" in American literature DTCovers stories from all periods of our nation's history DTRelates ethnic literature to the principle of literary modernism DT"Grave and hilarious, tender and merciless...The book performs a public service."-Quentin Anderson
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : United States
ISBN : UVA:X001758037
Author : Jon Lance Bacon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521445299
Flannery O'Connor and Cold War Culture offers a radically new reading of O'Connor, who is known primarily as the creator of "universal" religious dramas. By recovering the historical context in which O'Connor wrote her fiction, Jon Lance Bacon reveals an artist deeply concerned with the issues that engaged other producers of American culture from the 1940s to the 1960s: a national identity, political anxiety, and intellectual freedom. Bacon takes an interdisciplinary approach, relating the stories and novels to political texts and sociological studies, as well as films, television programs, paintings, advertisements, editorial cartoons, and comic books. At a time when national paranoia ran high, O'Connor joined in the public discussion regarding a way of life that seemed threatened from outside - the American way of life. The discussion tended toward celebration, but O'Connor raised doubts about the quality of life within the United States. Specifically, she attacked the consumerism that cold warriors cited as evidence of American cultural superiority. The role of dissenter appealed greatly to O'Connor, and her identity as a Southern, Catholic writer - the very identity that has discouraged critics from considering her as an American writer - furnished a position from which to criticize the Cold War consensus.
Author : Matthew Charles Roudané
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015037829739
"In the early 1960s two leaders of the New York performance group Living Theatre were asked to define its purpose. In this survey of contemporary American drama, Matthew C. Roudane argues that the response of these two pioneers in experimental theater - Julian Beck and Judith Malina - goes a long way toward explaining the purpose of all of the rich and varied dramas to appear on the stage since 1960: "To increase conscious awareness, to stress the sacredness of life, to break down the walls."" "African-American playwrights (Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka), women playwrights (Marsha Norman, Wendy Wasserstein, Beth Henley), gay playwrights (Harvey Fierstein, Tony Kushner), and others have over the past three and a half decades entreated audiences to acknowledge the persistence of racism, sexism, homophobia, and a host of other societal ills. Other playwrights have asked audiences to confront their own mortality (Edward Albee), their compromised morality (David Mamet), their unfulfilled American Dream (Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, and countless others)." "Whatever the particularities of these playwrights' personal identities, politics, of dramatic style, they share a willingness to confront uncomfortable truths about the human condition in America since 1960. Ironically, it is in their very rebellion against any number of things American that they identify themselves and their literature as such." "Roudane takes no scattershot approach to his subject. Favoring clusters of themes and the broad sweep of movements to linear chronology, he develops a carefully aimed analysis of the work of about two dozen of the hundreds of playwrights whose dramas have, since 1960, been performed in every venue, from regional and university theaters to Off-Off-Broadway to Off-Broadway to Broadway."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Jordan Yale Miller,Winifred L. Frazer
Publisher : Twayne Publishers
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015021506574
This is a concise critical history of the era in which American dramatists developed a style of their own, distinct from their British counterparts and European forebears. The Little Theatre Movement receives close attention, as do major playwrights Eugene O'Neill and Lillian Hellman.