A Study Guide for Clifford Odets's ""Waiting for Lefty""
Author : Cengage Learning Gale
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,46 MB
Release : 2016
Category :
ISBN : 9781535842266
Author : Cengage Learning Gale
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,46 MB
Release : 2016
Category :
ISBN : 9781535842266
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release :
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1410361934
A Study Guide for Clifford Odets's "Waiting for Lefty," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Cengage Learning Gale
Publisher :
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 35,78 MB
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781375395731
A Study Guide for Clifford Odets's "Waiting for Lefty," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Clifford Odets
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 12,55 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822212157
THE STORY: The action of the play is comprised of a series of varied, imaginatively conceived episodes, which blend into a powerful and stirring mosaic. The opening scene is a hiring hall where a union leader (obviously in the pay of the bosses) is trying to convince a committee of workers (who are waiting for their leader, Lefty, to arrive) not to strike. This is followed by a moving confrontation between a discouraged taxi driver, who cannot earn enough to live on, and his angry wife, who wants him to show some backbone and stand up to his employer; a revealing scene between a scheming boss and the young worker who refuses to spy on his fellow employees; a sad/funny episode centering on a young cabbie and his would-be bride, who lack the wherewithal to get married; a disturbing scene involving a senior doctor and the underpaid young intern (a labor activist) whom the doctor has been ordered to discharge; and, finally, a return to the union hall where the workers, learning that Lefty has been gunned down by the powers-that-be, resolve at last to stand up for their rights and to strike-and to stay off their jobs until their grievances are finally heard and acted upon by those who have so cynically exploited and misused them.
Author : Clifford Odets
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 38,8 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Actors
ISBN : 9780822202431
THE STORY: The title character is Georgie Elgin, a faithful, forgiving woman, whose long years of devotion to her actor husband, Frank, have almost obliterated her own personality. The life of an actor's wife is not as glamorous as many imagine. So
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1410346978
A Study Guide for Clifford Odets's "Golden Boy," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Isaac Butler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 18,19 MB
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1635574781
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, Nonfiction NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER, TIME MAGAZINE, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, VOX, SALON, LIT HUB, AND VANITY FAIR “Entertaining and illuminating.”--The New Yorker * “Compulsively readable.”--New York Times * “Delicious, humane, probing.”--Vulture * “The best and most important book about acting I've ever read.”--Nathan Lane The critically acclaimed cultural history of Method acting-an ebullient account of creative discovery and the birth of classic Hollywood. On stage and screen, we know a great performance when we see it. But how do actors draw from their bodies and minds to turn their selves into art? What is the craft of being an authentic fake? More than a century ago, amid tsarist Russia's crushing repression, one of the most talented actors ever, Konstantin Stanislavski, asked these very questions, reached deep into himself, and emerged with an answer. How his “system” remade itself into the Method and forever transformed American theater and film is an unlikely saga that has never before been fully told. Now, critic and theater director Isaac Butler chronicles the history of the Method in a narrative that transports readers from Moscow to New York to Los Angeles, from The Seagull to A Streetcar Named Desire to Raging Bull. He traces how a cohort of American mavericks--including Stella Adler, Lee Strasberg, and the storied Group Theatre--refashioned Stanislavski's ideas for a Depression-plagued nation that had yet to find its place as an artistic powerhouse. The Group's feuds and rivalries would, in turn, shape generations of actors who enabled Hollywood to become the global dream-factory it is today. Some of these performers the Method would uplift; others, it would destroy. Long after its midcentury heyday, the Method lives on as one of the most influential--and misunderstood--ideas in American culture. Studded with marquee names--from Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, and Elia Kazan, to James Baldwin, Ellen Burstyn, and Dustin Hoffman--The Method is a spirited history of ideas and a must-read for any fan of Broadway or American film.
Author : Richard Nelson
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1559368705
“An extraordinary theatrical event in which the personal and the political combine in a way that suggests a contemporary Chekhov.” —Michael Billington, Guardian This intimate and landmark series follows the Gabriel family of Rhinebeck, New York, through the momentous and divisive 2016 election year. While preparing meals in their kitchen, together they grapple in real time with issues of money, history, art, politics and family, as well as the fear of having been left behind.
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 49,13 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1410356892
A Study Guide for Clifford Odets's "Rocket to the Moon," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Michael Herr
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 48,39 MB
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0525562370
Fresh in his boots and three days in-country, Michael Herr is in a Chinook when a young soldier across from him is gunned. “It took me a month to lose that feeling of being a spectator to something that was part game, part show.” Written in unforgettable and unflinching detail, Herr captures the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Selected from Dispatches, one of "the best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review) and an instant classic straight from the front lines. A Vintage Shorts Vietnam Selection. An ebook short.