Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 46,61 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1410359468
A Study Guide for Elmer Rice's "Street Scene," 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 : Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 22,11 MB
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780815629399
Sanford Sternlicht presents a comprehensive survey of modern American drama beginning with its antecedents in Victorian melodrama through the present. He discusses the work and achievement of more than seventy playwrights, from Eugene O’Neill to Suzan-Lori Parks—from the golden era of Broadway to the rise of Off-Broadway and regional theater. Stern-licht shows how world theater influenced the American stage, and how the views of American dramatists reflected the great American social movements of their times. In addition, he describes the contributions of early experimental theater, the Federal Theater of the 1930s, African American, feminist, and gay and lesbian drama—and the joyous trends and triumphs of American musical theater.
Author : Margaret Notley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 16,42 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1351555790
The articles reprinted in this volume treat operas as opera and from some sort of critical angle; none of the articles uses methodology appropriate for another kind of musical work. Additional criteria used in selecting the articles were that they should not have been reprinted widely before and that taken together they should cover an extended array of significant operas and critical questions about them. Trends in Anglophone scholarship on post-1900 opera then determined the structure of the volume. The anthologized articles are organized according to the place of origin of the opera discussed in each of them; the introduction, however, follows a thematic approach. Themes considered in the introduction include questions of genre and reception; perspectives on librettos and librettists; words, lyricism, and roles of the orchestra; and modernism and other political contexts.
Author : Dominic Head
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1241 pages
File Size : 31,26 MB
Release : 2006-01-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521831792
This illustrated and fully updated Third Edition of The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English is the most authoritative and international survey of world literature in English available. The Guide covers everything from Old English to contemporary writing from all over the English-speaking world. There are entries on writers from Britain and Ireland, the USA, Canada, India, Africa, South Africa, New Zealand, the South Pacific and Australia, as well as on many important poems, novels, literary journals and plays. This new edition has been brought completely up to date with more than 280 new author entries, most of them for living authors. The general reader will find it fascinating to browse and to discover many new writers and works, while students will find it an invaluable resource for daily use. This is a unique work of reference for the twenty-first century that no reader or library should be without.
Author : Amanda Holden
Publisher : Viking Canada
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 48,41 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN :
Author : Amanda Holden
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 43,11 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN :
Presents a comprehensive guide to some of the most popular operas from the classic period to the present; and explores the careers of the great composers as well as descriptions of their operas.
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Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Paperbacks
ISBN :
Author : Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 25,74 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1438129661
Features a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.
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Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Libraries
ISBN :
Author : Amanda Holden
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 1338 pages
File Size : 45,52 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Music
ISBN :
The book, which was published early this year and is available unbundled from the CD-ROM for $69.95, contains information on more than 800 composers and examines some 1,500 operas in detail. Each composer's musical career is outlined, with an assessment of his or her overall contribution to opera. Opera entries include cast lists and orchestral forces, a commentary on the background of the work, a synopsis of the plot, and a musical analysis identifying musical highlights and points of interest. Recording and edition information is included. For those who don't like to turn pages, prefer to read from the screen, or just like the click-click of the mouse, the CD-ROM provides computer access via Windows to the information and pictures (small black and whites) of the book. The CD-ROM holds some enhancements: notably, three hours of music excerpts (unheard by this reviewer who lacks the needed 16-bit sound card; some, according to the press release, are as long as three to five minutes). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
