The Theatre Of August Wilson
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The Theatre Of August Wilson
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Author : Alan Nadel
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-05-17
The Theatre Of August Wilson written by Alan Nadel and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-17 with Performing Arts categories.
The first comprehensive study of August Wilson's drama introduces the major themes and motifs that unite Wilson's ten-play cycle about African American life in each decade of the twentieth century. Framed by Wilson's life experiences and informed by his extensive interviews, this book provides fresh, coherent, detailed readings of each play, well-situated in the extant scholarship. It also provides an overview of the cycle as a whole, demonstrating how it comprises a compelling interrogation of American culture and historiography. Keenly aware of the musical paradigms informing Wilson's dramatic technique, Nadel shows how jazz and, particularly, the blues provide the structural mechanisms that allow Wilson to examine alternative notions of time, property, and law. Wilson's improvisational logics become crucial to expressing his notions of black identity and resituating the relationship of literal to figurative in the African American community. The final two chapters include contributions by scholars Harry J. Elam, Jr. and Donald E. Pease
Conversations With August Wilson
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Author : Jackson R. Bryer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Conversations With August Wilson written by Jackson R. Bryer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Collects a selection of the many interviews Wilson gave from 1984 to 2004. In the interviews, the playwright covers at length and in detail his plays and his background. He comments as well on such subjects as the differences between African Americans and whites, his call for more black theater companies, and his belief that African Americans made a mistake in assimilating themselves into the white mainstream. He also talks about his major influences, what he calls his "four B's"-- the blues, writers James Baldwin and Amiri Baraka, and painter Romare Bearden. Wilson also discusses his writing process and his multiple collaborations with director Lloyd Richards--Publisher description.
The Dramatic Vision Of August Wilson
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Author : Sandra Garrett Shannon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
The Dramatic Vision Of August Wilson written by Sandra Garrett Shannon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Drama categories.
"In The Dramatic Vision of August Wilson, Sandra Shannon follows the playwright's path through each decade. From the outset, she considers how he uses poetry, the blues, Romare Bearden's art, and other cultural artifacts to lead him to imagined sites of pain and resignation, healing and renewal in the collective memory of black America. It is in these places of defeat and victory, Shannon demonstrates, that Wilson creates drama, as he excavates, examines, and reclaims the past. Although Wilson diverts attention away from factual details and focuses on the human costs of family dislocation, chronic unemployment, or cultural alienation, Shannon illustrates how fully the plays are grounded in credible historical contexts - from slavery and Emancipation to the aftermath of World War II, the 1960s, and the Vietnam War. Moreover, she identifies and analyzes the themes that recur in some plays and branch off in new directions in others - including the dislocations that attended black migration to the North and communication gaps between black men and women. As she examines each of the plays in Wilson's dramatic history of the African American experience, Shannon conveys the broad range of his dramatic vision."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
August Wilson
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Author : Yvonne Shafer
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1998-01-26
August Wilson written by Yvonne Shafer and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Provides information on the work of a black American playwright, best known for his play, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." Offers plot summaries and critical overviews of six plays written between 1984 and 1996, and contains a chronology, an overview of his life and career, and a list of productions and credits. Also includes an annotated bibliography of Wilson's dramatic publications as well as articles and interviews about him, and an annotated secondary bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
August Wilson S Fences
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Author : Ladrica Menson-Furr
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-06-06
August Wilson S Fences written by Ladrica Menson-Furr and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-06 with Performing Arts categories.
Fences represents the decade of the 1950s, and, when it premiered in 1985, it won the Pulitzer Prize. Set during the beginnings of the civil rights movement, it also concerns generational change and renewal, ending with a celebration of the life of its protagonist, even though it takes place at his funeral. Critics and scholars have lauded August Wilson's work for its universality and its ability, especially in Fences, to transcend racial barriers and this play helped to earn him the titles of "America's greatest playwright" and "the African American Shakespeare."
August Wilson
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Author : Marilyn Elkins
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-23
August Wilson written by Marilyn Elkins and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-23 with Performing Arts categories.
The only African American playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize twice, Wilson has yet to receive the critical attention that he merits. With 12 original essays, this volume provides a thorough introduction to his body of work.
The Ground On Which I Stand
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Author : August Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
Release Date : 2001
The Ground On Which I Stand written by August Wilson and has been published by Theatre Communications Grou this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
August Wilson's radical and provocative call to arms.
The Piano Lesson
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Author : August Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2019-08-06
The Piano Lesson written by August Wilson and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-06 with Drama categories.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, this modern American classic is about family, and the legacy of slavery in America. August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the black experience in 20th-century America as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences. In his second Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Piano Lesson, Wilson has fashioned perhaps his most haunting and dramatic work. At the heart of the play stands the ornately carved upright piano which, as the Charles family's prized, hard-won possession, has been gathering dust in the parlor of Berniece Charles's Pittsburgh home. When Boy Willie, Berniece's exuberant brother, bursts into her life with his dream of buying the same Mississippi land that his family had worked as slaves, he plans to sell their antique piano for the hard cash he needs to stake his future. But Berniece refuses to sell, clinging to the piano as a reminder of the history that is their family legacy. This dilemma is the real "piano lesson," reminding us that blacks are often deprived both of the symbols of their past and of opportunity in the present.
Approaches To Teaching The Plays Of August Wilson
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Author : Sandra G. Shannon
language : en
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Release Date : 2016-06-01
Approaches To Teaching The Plays Of August Wilson written by Sandra G. Shannon and has been published by Modern Language Association this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The award-winning playwright August Wilson used drama as a medium to write a history of twentieth-century America through the perspectives of its black citizenry. In the plays of his Pittsburgh Cycle, including the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning Fences and The Piano Lesson, Wilson mixes African spirituality with the realism of the American theater and puts African American storytelling and performance practices in dialogue with canonical writers like Aristotle and Shakespeare. As they portray black Americans living through migration, industrialization, and war, Wilson’s plays explore the relation between a unified black consciousness and America’s collective identity. In part 1 of this volume, “Materials,†the editors survey sources on Wilson’s biography, teachable texts of Wilson’s plays, useful secondary readings, and compelling audiovisual and Web resources. The essays in part 2, “Approaches,†look at a diverse set of issues in Wilson’s work, including the importance of blues and jazz, intertextual connections to other playwrights, race in performance, Yoruban spirituality, and the role of women in the plays.
The Past As Present In The Drama Of August Wilson
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Author : Harry J. Elam
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2009-05-21
The Past As Present In The Drama Of August Wilson written by Harry J. Elam and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-21 with Performing Arts categories.
Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright August Wilson, author of Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and The Piano Lesson, among other dramatic works, is one of the most well respected American playwrights on the contemporary stage. The founder of the Black Horizon Theater Company, his self-defined dramatic project is to review twentieth-century African American history by creating a play for each decade. Theater scholar and critic Harry J. Elam examines Wilson's published plays within the context of contemporary African American literature and in relation to concepts of memory and history, culture and resistance, race and representation. Elam finds that each of Wilson's plays recaptures narratives lost, ignored, or avoided to create a new experience of the past that questions the historical categories of race and the meanings of blackness. Harry J. Elam, Jr. is Professor of Drama at Stanford University and author of Taking It to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka (The University of Michigan Press).