Shore Acres And Other Plays
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Shore Acres And Other Plays
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Author : James A. Herne
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2010-04-01
Shore Acres And Other Plays written by James A. Herne and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-01 with Drama categories.
James A. Herne (1839-1901) is considered by some critics to be the "American Ibsen." This volume contains "Shore Acres," "Sag Harbor," and "Hearts of Oak."
Shore Acres
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Author : James A. Herne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
Shore Acres written by James A. Herne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with categories.
Catalog Of Copyright Entries
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1957
Catalog Of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1957 with Copyright categories.
How Plays Work
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Author : Martin Meisel
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2007-06-28
How Plays Work written by Martin Meisel and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Why are readers who are generally at home with narrative and discursive prose, and even readily responsive to poetry, far less confident and intuitive when it comes to plays? The complication lies in the twofold character of the play as it exists on the page - as a script or score to be realized, and as literature. Martin Meisel's engaging account of how we read play plays on the page shows that the path to the fullest imaginative response is an understanding of how plays work. What is entailed is something like learning a language - vocabulary, grammar, syntax - but learning also how the language operates in those concrete situations where it is deployed. Meisel begins with a look at matters often taken for granted in coding and convention, and then - under 'Beginnings' - at what is entailed in establishing and entering the invented world of the play. Each succeeding chapter is a gesture at enlarging the scope: 'Seeing and Hearing', 'The Uses of Place', 'The Role of the Audience', 'The Shape of the Action', and 'The Action of Words'. The final chapters, 'Reading Meanings' and 'Primal Attractions', explore ways in which both the drive for significant understanding and the appetite for wonder can and do find satisfaction and delight. Cultivated in tone and jargon-free, How Plays Work is illuminated by dozens of judiciously chosen examples from western drama - from classical Greek dramatists to contemporary playwrights, both canonical and relatively obscure. It will appeal as much to the serious student of the theatre as to the playgoer who likes to read a play before seeing it performed.
America S Lost Plays Vii The Early Plays Of James A Herne
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Author : James A. Herne
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2019-05-16
America S Lost Plays Vii The Early Plays Of James A Herne written by James A. Herne and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-16 with Drama categories.
This series collects the complete scripts of 100 selected, previously unpublished plays by 19th-century American playwrights. Volume 7 features James A Herne, with "Within an Inch of His Life," "The Minute Men of 1774-1775," "Drifting Apart," and "The Reverend Griffith Davenport." Includes a Bibliography.
Entertaining The Nation
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Author : Tice L. Miller
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2007-10-25
Entertaining The Nation written by Tice L. Miller and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-25 with Drama categories.
In this survey of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American drama, Tice L. Miller examines American plays written before a canon was established in American dramatic literature and provides analyses central to the culture that produced them. Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries evaluates plays in the early years of the republic, reveals shifts in taste from the classical to the contemporary in the 1840s and 1850s, and considers the increasing influence of realism at the end of the nineteenth century. Miller explores the relationship between American drama and societal issues during this period. While never completely shedding its English roots, says Miller, the American drama addressed issues important on this side of the Atlantic such as egalitarianism, republicanism, immigration, slavery, the West, Wall Street, and the Civil War. In considering the theme of egalitarianism, the volume notes Alexis de Tocqueville’s observation in 1831 that equality was more important to Americans than liberty. Also addressed is the Yankee character, which became a staple in American comedy for much of the nineteenth century. Miller analyzes several English plays and notes how David Garrick’s reforms in London were carried over to the colonies. Garrick faced an increasingly middle-class public, offers Miller, and had to make adjustments to plays and to his repertory to draw an audience. The volumealso looks at the shift in drama that paralleled the one in political power from the aristocrats who founded the nation to Jacksonian democrats. Miller traces how the proliferation of newspapers developed a demand for plays that reflected contemporary society and details how playwrights scrambled to put those symbols of the outside world on stage to appeal to the public. Steamships and trains, slavery and adaptations of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and French influences are presented as popular subjects during that time. Entertaining the Nation effectively outlines the civilizing force of drama in the establishment and development of the nation, ameliorating differences among the various theatergoing classes, and provides a microcosm of the changes on and off the stage in America during these two centuries.
Yankee Theatre
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Author : Francis Hodge
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-04-15
Yankee Theatre written by Francis Hodge and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-15 with Performing Arts categories.
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.
Production Promptbook For James A Herne S Shore Acres
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Author : John M. Gulley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Production Promptbook For James A Herne S Shore Acres written by John M. Gulley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with categories.
The Facts On File Companion To American Drama
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Author : Jackson R. Bryer
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2010
The Facts On File Companion To American Drama written by Jackson R. Bryer and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Features a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.
American Realism And American Drama 1880 1940
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Author : Brenda Murphy
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1987-08-27
American Realism And American Drama 1880 1940 written by Brenda Murphy 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 1987-08-27 with Drama categories.
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.