American Plays and Playwrights of the Contemporary Theatre. (Third Printing.).
Author : Allan Lewis
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File Size : 28,77 MB
Release : 1966
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Author : Allan Lewis
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,77 MB
Release : 1966
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Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 14,65 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781559361873
August Wilson's radical and provocative call to arms.
Author : Philip C. Kolin
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 25,11 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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This work offers interviews with 27 American playwrights whose work has shaped the American stage since 1945. Organised into four periods, the collection includes conversations with a variety of playwrights whose work has contributed to Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway and regional drama.
Author : C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 24,61 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521668071
A leading writer on American theatre explores the works and influences of ten contemporary American playwrights.
Author : Penny Farfan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 36,77 MB
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1350316431
Breaking new ground in this century, this wide-ranging collection of essays is the first of its kind to address the work of contemporary international women playwrights. The book considers the work of established playwrights such as Caryl Churchill, Marie Clements, Lara Foot-Newton, Maria Irene Fornes, Sarah Kane, Lisa Kron, Young Jean Lee, Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Djanet Sears, Caridad Svich, and Judith Thompson, but it also foregrounds important plays by many emerging writers. Divided into three sections-Histories, Conflicts, and Genres-the book explores such topics as the feminist history play, solo performance, transcultural dramaturgies, the identity play, the gendered terrain of war, and eco-drama, and encompasses work from the United States, Canada, Latin America, Oceania, South Africa, Egypt, and the United Kingdom. With contributions from leading international scholars and an introductory overview of the concerns and challenges facing women playwrights in this new century, Contemporary Women Playwrights explores the diversity and power of women's playwriting since 1990, highlighting key voices and examining crucial critical and theoretical developments within the field.
Author : Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,24 MB
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476616329
William Inge's popular plays of the 1950s received Tony nominations (Bus Stop [1956], and Dark at the Top of the Stairs [1958]) and won a Pulitzer Prize (Picnic [1953]). As a screenwriter, he won an Academy Award (Splendor in the Grass [1961]). Yet Inge's career ended in perceived failure, depression and finally suicide. These previously unpublished essays take a fresh look at some of his most popular work, as well as his less well-known later plays. Inge's work was often ahead of its time, and foreshadowed the influence of popular media and advertising, the sexual revolution and the women's movement. The essays give context for Inge's work within twentieth-century American drama, and attest to his exceptional talent. Included are reminiscences which reveal the playwright's charm and generosity, and shed light on how a brilliant, troubled man eventually took his own life.
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Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 33,18 MB
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ISBN : 1621969843
Author : Bernard L. Peterson Jr.
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 36,13 MB
Release : 1988-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313251900
This work provides a wealth of information on obscure and overlooked American playwrights as well as some famous ones; it will be a welcome addition for collections specializing in the theater arts. Reference Books Bulletin This directory and index, the first such volume devoted exclusively to contemporary black American dramatists, will have an important place in theatre collections. It captures and preserves an elusive part of artistic endeavor, giving access to literally thousands of dramatic works that would otherwise be lost to scholars and the public. Organized as an encyclopedia, it provides information on more than 600 noteworthy Black American playwrights whose plays have been written, produced, or published between 1950 and the present. The volume begins with an introductory essay surveying the history of contemporary black American drama. Playwrights, screenwriters, radio and television scriptwriters, and musical theatre collaborators are treated in individual entries that comprise the bulk of the book. The volume also supplies a bibliography of anthologies, books, and periodicals cited; mailing addresses for more than 200 of the playwrights; and title and subject indexes.
Author : Sebastian M. Herrmann
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Winter
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 13,15 MB
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 382536447X
This volume proposes the ‘poetics of politics’ as an analytic angle to interrogate contemporary cultural production in the United States. As recent scholarship has observed, American literature and culture around the turn of the millennium, while still deeply informed by the textual self-consciousness of postmodernism, are marked by a rekindled interest in matters of social concern. This revived interest in politics is frequently read as a ‘grand epochal transition.’ Sidestepping such a logic of periodization, this book points to the interplay between the textual and the political as a dynamic – always locally specific – that affords unique insights into the characteristics of the contemporary moment. The sixteen case studies in this book explore this interplay across a wide range of media, genres, and modes. Together, they make visible a broad cultural concern with negotiating social relevance and textual self-awareness that permeates and structures contemporary US (popular) culture.
Author : Mary Burnham
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Page : 1612 pages
File Size : 30,30 MB
Release : 1928
Category : American literature
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