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Modern American Drama
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Author : June Schlueter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Modern American Drama written by June Schlueter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with American drama categories.
This collection presents twenty essays on twentieth-century plays by women, from Rachel Crothers to Meredith Monk, as well as overview essays on their predecessors. At least a dozen of the essays explicitly treat particular women's texts as dramas of rejection and rebellion.
The Presence Of The Past In Modern American Drama
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Author : Patricia R. Schroeder
language : en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 1989
The Presence Of The Past In Modern American Drama written by Patricia R. Schroeder and has been published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Drama categories.
This study focuses on Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams, who, within the overall framework of formal realism, reshaped dramatic form to depict a past that interacts with the present in complex and often surprising ways. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Award in Modern Drama.
Modern American Drama 1945 2000
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Author : C. W. E. Bigsby
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-12-21
Modern American Drama 1945 2000 written by C. W. E. Bigsby and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-12-21 with Drama categories.
New edition of Modern American Drama completes the survey and comes up to 2000.
Versions Of Heroism In Modern American Drama
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Author : Julie Adam
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-07-27
Versions Of Heroism In Modern American Drama written by Julie Adam and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Taking as its starting-point the 'death of tragedy' debate, and focusing on the supposed disappearance from the stage of the individual tragic hero, the book views selected plays and writings on the theatre by Miller, Williams, Maxwell Anderson and O'Neill as exemplifying four versions of heroism: idealism, martyrdom, self-reflection and survival. Julie Adam shows that these diverse playwrights share a desire to redefine tragic heroism in individualistic liberal terms.
Modern American Drama Playwriting In The 1940s
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Author : Felicia Hardison Londré
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-11-14
Modern American Drama Playwriting In The 1940s written by Felicia Hardison Londré and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major playwrights and their works to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * Eugene O'Neill: The Iceman Cometh (1946), A Moon for the Misbegotten (1947), Long Day's Journey Into Night (written 1941, produced 1956), and A Touch of the Poet (written 1942, produced 1958); * Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie (1944), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Summer and Smoke (1948); * Arthur Miller: All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), and The Crucible (1953); * Thornton Wilder: Our Town (1938), The Skin of Our Teeth (1942), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), and The Alcestiad (written 1940s).
Feminist Rereadings Of Modern American Drama
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Author : June Schlueter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Feminist Rereadings Of Modern American Drama written by June Schlueter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with American drama categories.
"New perspectives on the work of five prominent male playwrights in the modern American canon."--Jacket.
Modern American Drama
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Modern American Drama written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Criticism categories.
From Arthur Miller to Tony Kushner, this volume chronicles the playwrights and plays that shaped America drama to the present time.This is an electronic version of the original edition of this;Bloom's Period Studies;title, cont.
A Reader S Guide To Modern American Drama
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Author : Sanford Sternlicht
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2002-04-01
A Reader S Guide To Modern American Drama written by Sanford Sternlicht and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Visions Of Tragedy In Modern American Drama
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Author : David Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-02-08
Visions Of Tragedy In Modern American Drama written by David Palmer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume responds to a renewed focus on tragedy in theatre and literary studies to explore conceptions of tragedy in the dramatic work of seventeen canonical American playwrights. For students of American literature and theatre studies, the assembled essays offer a clear framework for exploring the work of many of the most studied and performed playwrights of the modern era. Following a contextual introduction that offers a survey of conceptions of tragedy, scholars examine the dramatic work of major playwrights in chronological succession, beginning with Eugene O'Neill and ending with Suzan-Lori Parks. A final chapter provides a study of American drama since 1990 and its ongoing engagement with concepts of tragedy. The chapters explore whether there is a distinctively American vision of tragedy developed in the major works of canonical American dramatists and how this may be seen to evolve over the course of the twentieth century through to the present day. Among the playwrights whose work is examined are: Susan Glaspell, Langston Hughes, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, August Wilson, Marsha Norman and Tony Kushner. With each chapter being short enough to be assigned for weekly classes in survey courses, the volume will help to facilitate critical engagement with the dramatic work and offer readers the tools to further their independent study of this enduring theme of dramatic literature.
Contemporary American Drama
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Author : Annette Saddik
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2007-09-13
Contemporary American Drama written by Annette Saddik and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts that experiment with form and content, discussing influential playwrights and performance artists such as Tennessee Williams, Adrienne Kennedy, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Charles Ludlum, Anna Deavere Smith, Karen Finley and Will Power, alongside avant-garde theatre groups. Saddik traces the development of contemporary drama since 1945, and discusses the cross-cultural impact of postwar British and European innovations on American theatre from the 1950s to the present day in order to examine the performance of American identity. She argues that contemporary American theatre is primarily a postmodern drama of inclusion and diversity that destabilizes the notion of fixed identity and questions the nature of reality.