The Realistic Tradition in American Art and Drama
Author : Jonathan Wadhams Curvin
Publisher :
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 49,73 MB
Release : 1941
Category : American drama
ISBN :
Author : Jonathan Wadhams Curvin
Publisher :
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 49,73 MB
Release : 1941
Category : American drama
ISBN :
Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,46 MB
Release : 1996-08-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0817308377
This book reconsiders realism on the American stage by addressing the great variety and richness of the plays that form the American theatre canon.
Author : Edward Lucie-Smith
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 32,22 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN :
This lavishly illustrated book explores the tremendous scope, richness, toughness, sensibility and liveliness of the American realist tradition.
Author : Brenda Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,72 MB
Release : 1987-08-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521327114
The importance of Native American realism is traced through a study of the evolution of dramatic theory from the early 1890s through World War I and the uniquely American innovations in realistic drama between world wars.
Author : Cornell University
Publisher :
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 45,5 MB
Release : 1942
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN :
Author : Francis Hodge
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 25,36 MB
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0292761546
The famous "Stage Yankees," with their eccentric New England dialect comedy, entertained audiences from Boston to New Orleans, from New York to London in the years between 1825 and 1850. They provided the creative energy for the development of an American-type character in early plays of native authorship. This book examines the full range of their theatre activity, not only as actors, but also as playmakers, and re-evaluates their contribution to the growth of the American stage. Yankee theatre was not an oddity, a passing fad, or an accident of entertainment; it was an honest exploitation of the materials of American life for an audience in search of its own identification. The delineation of the American character—a full-length realistic portrait in the context of stage comedy—was its projected goal; and though not the only method for such delineation, the theatre form was the most popular and extensive way of disseminating the American image. The Yankee actors openly borrowed from what literary sources were available to them, but because of their special position as actors, who were required to give flesh-and-blood imitations of people for the believable acceptance of others viewing the same people about them, they were forced to draw extensively on their actors' imaginations and to present the American as they saw him. If the image was too often an external one, it still revealed the Yankee as a hardy individual whose independence was a primary assumption; as a bargainer, whose techniques were more clever than England's sharpest penny-pincher; as a country person, more intelligent, sharper and keener in dealings than the city-bred type; as an American freewheeler who always landed on top, not out of naive honesty but out of a simple perception of other human beings and their gullibility. Much new evidence in this study is based on London productions, where the view of English audiences and critics was sharply focused on what Americans thought about themselves and the new culture of democracy emerging around them. The shift from America, the borrower, to America, the original doer, can be clearly seen in this stager activity. Yankee theatre, then, is an epitome of the emerging American after the Second War for Independence. Emerging nationalism meant emerging national definition. Yankee theatre thus led to the first cohesive body of American plays, the first American actors seen in London, and to a new realistic interpretation of the American in the "character" plays of the 1870s and 1880s.
Author : Oscar Gross Brockett
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 42,10 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
This is a revision of a major work in 20th-century theatre history by two theatre historians. It represents a comprehensive and accessible survey of the major movements, playwrights, critical theories and social contexts of theatre in this century. The text begins with an overview of the social/cultural environment at the end of the last century that spurred the development of drama and theatre, then surveys the realistic theatre of Ibsen and the Independent, Modernist and Anti-realist movements. The final two chapters cover world theatre of the past 20 years.
Author : Richard B. Vowles
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 47,36 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Drama
ISBN :
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Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Drama
ISBN :