Dramatic Soundings: Evaluation and Retractions culled from 30 years of Dramatic Criticism
Author : John Gassner
Publisher :
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 36,90 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : John Gassner
Publisher :
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 36,90 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : Charles A. Carpenter
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 49,18 MB
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 144118421X
Author : Keith Garebian
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 23,83 MB
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199831297
A handy and engaging chronicle, this book is the most detailed production history to date of the original Broadway version of Cabaret, showing how the show evolved from Christopher Isherwood's Berlin stories, into John van Druten's stage play, a British film adaptation, and then the Broadway musical, conceived and directed by Harold Prince as an early concept musical. With nearly 40 illustrations, full cast credits, and a bibliography, The Making of Cabaret will appeal to musical theatre aficionados, theatre specialists, and students and performers of musical theatre.
Author : Philip Kolin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,9 MB
Release : 1998-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0313007721
The plays of Tennessee Williams are some of the greatest triumphs of the American theatre. If Williams is not the most important American playwright, he surely is one of the two or three most celebrated, rivaled only by Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller. In a career that spanned almost five decades, he created an extensive canon of more than 70 plays. His contributions to the American theatre are inestimable and revolutionary. The Glass Menagerie (1945) introduced poetic realism to the American stage; A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) explored sexual and psychological issues that had never before been portrayed in American culture; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) dared to challenge the political and sexual mores of the Eisenhower era; and his plays of the 1970s are among the most innovative works produced on the American stage. But Williams was far more than a gifted and prolific playwright. He created two collections of poetry, two novels, four collections of stories, memoirs, and scores of essays. Because of his towering presence in American drama, Williams has attracted the attention of some of the most insightful scholars and critics of the twentieth century. The 1990s in particular ushered in a renaissance of Williams research, including a definitive biography, a descriptive bibliography, and numerous books and scholarly articles. This reference book synthesizes the vast body of research on Tennessee Williams and offers a performance history of his works. Under the guidance of one of the leading authorities on Williams, expert contributors have written chapters on each of Williams' works or clusters of works. Each chapter includes a discussion of the biographical context of a work or group of writings; a survey of the bibliographic history; an analysis of major critical approaches, which looks at themes, characters, symbols, and plots; a consideration of the major critical problems posed by the work; an overview of chief productions and film and television versions; a concluding interpretation; and a bibliography of secondary sources. The volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography and a comprehensive index.
Author : Edward Halim Mikhail
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,3 MB
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349022764
Author : Brenda Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 22,41 MB
Release : 1992-02-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521400954
This is a book-length study of the intense creative relationship between Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan.
Author : Barbara L. Horn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 2003-12-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 0313052611
This volume documents the life and works of the acclaimed playwright, Edward Albee. His first four plays were all produced Off Broadway from 1960-1961, creating buzz that he was an up-and-coming avant-garde playwright. But his most notable accomplishment came a year later with his first full-length play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. His plays were linked with the philosophies of the European absurdists, Beckett and Ionesco, and the American traditional social criticism of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and Eugene O'Neill. Intended to serve as a quick reference guide and an exhaustive resource, this collection includes play synopses and critical overviews, production histories and credits, and locator suggestions on unpublished archival material and lists of texts/anthologies that have published Albee's material. The two secondary bibliographies contained within are fully annotated chronologically and alphabetically with the year of publication, presenting a fuller sense of Albee's playwriting career.
Author : John W. Frick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 2003-07-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521817781
This book examines the role of temperance drama in American theatre and compares the American genre to its British counterpart.
Author : Gholamreza Sami
Publisher : Author House
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,56 MB
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1449089844
This book offers a study of the portrayal of America in selected social and political plays of the 1930s and a scrutiny of the intellectual response of the playwrights to the American way of life in the light of socio-political and economic issues in that decade.
Author : Lawrence J. Trudeau
Publisher : Drama Criticism
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 16,89 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810379589
Criticism of the most significant and widely studied dramiatic works fromall the world's literatures.