Twentieth Century American Drama

Author : David Krasner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405137348

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A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama by David Krasner Pdf

This Companion provides an original and authoritative surveyof twentieth-century American drama studies, written by some of thebest scholars and critics in the field. Balances consideration of canonical material with discussion ofworks by previously marginalized playwrights Includes studies of leading dramatists, such as TennesseeWilliams, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill and Gertrude Stein Allows readers to make new links between particular plays andplaywrights Examines the movements that framed the century, such as theHarlem Renaissance, lesbian and gay drama, and the soloperformances of the 1980s and 1990s Situates American drama within larger discussions aboutAmerican ideas and culture

Author : Susan C. W. Abbotson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313027239

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Masterpieces of 20th-Century American Drama by Susan C. W. Abbotson Pdf

American playwrights have made enormous contributions to world drama during the last century, and their works are widely read and performed. This reference conveniently introduces 10 of the most important modern American plays read by students. An introductory essay concisely overviews modern American drama, and each of the chapters that follow examines a particular play. Among the plays discussed are Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, and August Wilson's The Piano Lesson. Each chapter includes a biography, a plot summary, an analysis of the play's themes, characters, and dramatic art, and a review of its historical background and reception. Chapters list works for further reading, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.

Author : C. W. E. Bigsby,Christopher William Edgar Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1984-11-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521277175

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A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: Volume 2, Williams, Miller, Albee by C. W. E. Bigsby,Christopher William Edgar Bigsby Pdf

Dr Bigsby analyses the early unpublished plays and the major works of Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller and Edward Albee.

Author : C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1985-05-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521278961

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A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: Volume 3, Beyond Broadway by C. W. E. Bigsby Pdf

The final volume of Christopher Bigsby's critical account of American drama in the twentieth century.

Author : Prentice Hall PTR
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0130501972

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Twentieth-Century American Dramas by Prentice Hall PTR Pdf

Author : Nadja Klopsch
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640471102

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The American Dream in 20th Century American Drama by Nadja Klopsch Pdf

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Department of English and American Studies), language: English, abstract: Every year thousands of people from all over the world migrate to the United States of America. For most people escaping war, poverty, ecological destruction and other dangers, the United States constitute a safe harbor where their hopes of a better life come true. Ever since the settling of what is today the US, people came to live in the New World and to lead a better life than in their countries of origin. The hopes connected with this better and happier live are all joined in the concept of the "American Dream", which became one of most powerful creation myths of a country. People migrating to the United States have certain dreams or hopes of a better life but in reality these promises often turn out to be not as strong as people originally believed them to be. Only a very small amount of people achieve the famous idea of "rising from rags to riches" whereas many people fail to attain their goal of a better life. Hence it is not surprising that the American culture not only is shaped by the glorious American Dream but also by the grim truth of its failing or being flunked. Of course, such an important concept deeply influences American culture. Continuously the ideas of the American Dream can be found in television, movies, literature, and arts for instance in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby or Gabriele Muccino's film The Pursuit of Happiness. This paper aims to examine the presentment and importance of the American Dream for twentieth century American drama. Drama in general was selected because of its importance as one of the three main literary genres. Temporal narrowing in form of 20th century was chosen because drama as a literary genre is characterized by experimentation with form and content in this period. Furthermore, some of the be

Author : Edward David Latham
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574412499

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Tonality as Drama by Edward David Latham Pdf

Drawing on the fields of dramaturgy, music theory, and historical musicology, this book answers a question about twentieth-century music: Why does tonality persist in opera, even after it has been abandoned in other genres?

Author : L. Bailey McDaniel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137299574

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(Re)Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth-Century American Drama by L. Bailey McDaniel Pdf

Looking at a century of American theatre, McDaniel investigates how race-based notions of maternal performance become sites of resistance to cultural and political hierarchies. This book considers how the construction of mothering as universally women's work obscures additional, equally constructed subdivisions based in race and class.

Author : Gerald M. Berkowitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317901730

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American Drama of the Twentieth Century by Gerald M. Berkowitz Pdf

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 : Alexander Feldman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136155000

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Dramas of the Past on the Twentieth-Century Stage by Alexander Feldman Pdf

This book defines and exemplifies a major genre of modern dramatic writing, termed historiographic metatheatre, in which self-reflexive engagements with the traditions and forms of dramatic art illuminate historical themes and aid in the representation of historical events and, in doing so, formulates a genre. Historiographic metatheatre has been, and remains, a seminal mode of political engagement and ideological critique in the contemporary dramatic canon. Locating its key texts within the traditions of historical drama, self-reflexivity in European theatre, debates in the politics and aesthetics of postmodernism, and currents in contemporary historiography, this book provides a new critical idiom for discussing the major works of the genre and others that utilize its techniques. Feldman studies landmarks in the theatre history of postwar Britain by Weiss, Stoppard, Brenton, Wertenbaker and others, focusing on European revolutionary politics, the historiography of the World Wars and the effects of British colonialism. The playwrights under consideration all use the device of the play-within-the-play to explore constructions of nationhood and of Britishness, in particular. Those plays performed within the framing works are produced in places of exile where, Feldman argues, the marginalized negotiate the terms of national identity through performance.

Author : C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1982-07-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521271169

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A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: Volume 1, 1900-1940 by C. W. E. Bigsby Pdf

Eugene O'Neill - Clifford Odets - Left-wing theatre - Black drama - Thornton Wilder - Lillian Hellman - Luigi Pirandello - Arthur Miller.

Author : M. Malburne-Wade
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137441614

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Revision as Resistance in Twentieth-Century American Drama by M. Malburne-Wade Pdf

American dramas consciously rewrite the past as a means of determined criticism and intentional resistance. While modern criticism often sees the act of revision as derivative, Malburne-Wade uses Victor Turner's concept of the social drama and the concept of the liminal to argue for a more complicated view of revision.

Author : Thaddeus Wakefield
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015058097232

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The Family in Twentieth-century American Drama by Thaddeus Wakefield Pdf

The central subject of American drama is, arguably, the American family. From Royall Tyler's colonial comedy The Contrast (1787) to August Wilson's King Hedley II (2000), relationships between husbands, wives, and their children have been used consistently by American playwrights to explore and illuminate the American experience. This study of the family in twentieth-century American drama explores how filial relationships are affected by the capitalistic culture of consumption that permeates twentieth-century American society. By analyzing relationships within both traditional and nontraditional families, this book examines how family members in American plays perceive themselves and others as «things» in American twentieth-century capitalistic society.

Author : John H. Houchin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521818192

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Censorship of the American Theatre in the Twentieth Century by John H. Houchin Pdf

John Houchin explores the impact of censorship in twentieth-century American theatre. He argues that theatrical censorship coincides with significant challenges to religious, political and cultural traditions. Along with the well-known instance of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s, other almost equally influential events shaped the course of the American stage during the century. The book is arranged in chronological order. It provides a summary of censorship in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America and then analyses key political and theatrical events between 1900 and 2000. These include a discussion of the 1913 riot after the Abbey Theatre touring produdtion of Playboy of the Western World; protests against Clifford Odet's Waiting for Lefty, performed by militant workers during the Depression; and reactions to the recent play Angels in America.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : American drama
ISBN : OCLC:156991722

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Twentieth-century American Drama by Anonim Pdf