A Study of the Modern Drama
Author : Barrett Harper Clark
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 18,37 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Author : Barrett Harper Clark
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 18,37 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Author : Kenneth Pickering
Publisher : Palgrave
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 25,88 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : Barrett H. Clark
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 36,56 MB
Release : 1938
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Richard Gilman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300079029
This critical exploration of modern drama begins with Büchner and Ibsen and then discusses the major playwrights who have shaped modern theater. A new introduction by the author assesses developments of recent years.
Author : Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 42,94 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0199658773
This book tells the story of modern drama through its seminal, groundbreaking plays and performances, and the artistic diversity that these represent. Exploring the new note of artistic hostility between dramatists and their audience, Shepherd-Barr draws on a range of theories and performances to reveal what makes modern drama 'modern'.
Author : W. B. Worthen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 34,19 MB
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0520286871
The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert "styles." Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W. B. Worthen instead sees drama as the interplay of text, stage production, and audience. How are audiences manipulated? What makes drama meaningful? Worthen identifies three rhetorical strategies that distinguish an O'Neill play from a Yeats, or these two from a Brecht. Where realistic theater relies on the "natural" qualities of the stage scene, poetic theater uses the poet's word, the text, to control performance. Modern political theater, by contrast, openly places the audience at the center of its rhetorical designs, and the drama of the postwar period is shown to develop a range of post-Brechtian practices that make the audience the subject of the play. Worthen's book deserves the attention of any literary critic or serious theatergoer interested in the relationship between modern drama and the spectator.
Author : Barrett Harper Clark
Publisher :
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 1930
Category : Drama
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Author : Una Chaudhuri
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 38,31 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472065899
The first book-length study of the notion of place and its implications in modern drama
Author : Leslie Kane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,88 MB
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1136791701
The 12 original and two classic essays offer a dialectic on performance and structure, and substantially advance our knowledge of this seminal playwright. The commentaries examine feminism, pernicious nostalgia, ethnicity, the mythological land motif, the discourse of anxiety, gendered language, and Mamet's vision of America, providing insights on the theatricality, originality, and universality of the work. Although the dominant focus is on Glengarry Glen Ross, several essays look at the play against the background of Mamet's Edmund, Reunion, and American Buffalo, whereas others find fascinating parallels in Emerson, Baudrillard, Conrad, Miller, and Churchill. The book also includes an interview with Sam Mendes, the director of the highly acclaimed 1994 revival of Glengarry Glen Ross in London, conducted specifically for this collectio. A chronology of major productions and the most current and comprehensive bibliography of secondary references from 1983-1995 complete the volume.
Author : Paul Rosefeldt
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 26,58 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN :
"From the Freudians to the feminists, the role of the absent or hidden father figure has played a part in narrative and cultural theory. This work presents the first full-length examination of the absent father in modern drama. It closely analyzes major works by Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Williams, Miller, Shepard, Rabe, Henley, Norman, Pielmeier, Shaffer, Osborne, Churchill, and Fugard. Using the critical framework of psychological, deconstructive, and myth criticism, this book demonstrates how the consistent focus on an imposing father figure who never physically appears onstage affects the psychological, social, and metaphysical structure of major modern dramas."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved