Time And The Conways And Other Plays
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An Inspector Calls And Other Plays
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Author : J B Priestley
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2001-03-29
An Inspector Calls And Other Plays written by J B Priestley and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03-29 with Drama categories.
'We don't live alone ... We are responsible for each other' A policeman interrupts a rich family's dinner to question them about the suicide of a young working-class girl. As their guilty secrets are gradually revealed over the course of the evening, 'An Inspector Calls', J. B. Priestley's most famous play, shows us the terrible consequences of poverty and inequality. The other powerful plays in this collection - 'Time and the Conways', 'I Have Been Here Before' and 'The Linden Tree' - explore time, fate, free will and the effects of war. 'A vastly talented and exceptionally versatile and wise writer' Iris Murdoch 'Priestley was volcanic, fertile ... and never dull' Anthony Burgess If you enjoyed An Inspector Calls, you might like Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.
Theatre And National Identity
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Author : Nadine Holdsworth
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-27
Theatre And National Identity written by Nadine Holdsworth and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-27 with Performing Arts categories.
This book explores the ways that pre-existing ‘national’ works or ‘national theatre’ sites can offer a rich source of material for speaking to the contemporary moment because of the resonances or associations they offer of a different time, place, politics, or culture. Featuring a broad international scope, it offers a series of thought-provoking essays that explore how playwrights, directors, theatre-makers, and performance artists have re-staged or re-worked a classic national play, performance, theatrical form, or theatre space in order to engage with conceptions of and questions around the nation, nationalism, and national identity in the contemporary moment, opening up new ways of thinking about or problematizing questions around the nation and national identity. Chapters ask how productions engage with a particular moment in the national psyche in the context of internationalism and globalization, for example, as well as how productions explore the interconnectivity of nations, intercultural agendas, or cosmopolitanism. They also explore questions relating to the presence of migrants, exiles, or refugees, and the legacy of colonial histories and post-colonial subjectivities. The volume highlights how theatre and performance has the ability to contest and unsettle ideas of the nation and national identity through the use of various sites, stagings, and performance strategies, and how contemporary theatres have portrayed national agendas and characters at a time of intense cultural flux and repositioning.
Reading The Times
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Author : Randall Stevenson
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2018-02-01
Reading The Times written by Randall Stevenson 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 2018-02-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Wartime British writers took to the airwaves to reshape the nation and the Empire
The Penguin Modern Classics Book
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Author : Henry Eliot
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2021-11-18
The Penguin Modern Classics Book written by Henry Eliot and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world For six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical visionaries and timeless storytellers. This reader's companion showcases every title published in the series so far, with more than 1,800 books and 600 authors, from Achebe and Adonis to Zamyatin and Zweig. It is the essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world, and the companion volume to The Penguin Classics Book. Bursting with lively descriptions, surprising reading lists, key literary movements and over two thousand cover images, The Penguin Modern Classics Book is an invitation to dive in and explore the greatest literature of the last hundred years.
The Contemporary History Play
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Author : Benjamin Poore
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2024-05-30
The Contemporary History Play written by Benjamin Poore and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-30 with Performing Arts categories.
Something exciting is happening with the contemporary history play. New writing by playwrights such as Jackie Sibblies Drury, Samuel Adamson, Hannah Khalil, Cordelia Lynn, and Lucy Kirkwood, makes powerful theatrical use of the past, but does not fit into critics' familiar categories of historical drama. In this book, Benjamin Poore provides readers with tools to name and critically analyse these changes. The Contemporary History Play contends that many history plays are becoming more complex and layered in their aesthetic approaches, as playwrights work through the experience of being surrounded by numerous and varied forms of historical representation in the twenty-first century. For theatre scholars, this book offers a means of interpreting how new writing relies on the past and notions of historicity to generate meaning and resonance in the present. For playwrights and students of playwriting, the book is a guide to the history play's recent past, and to the state of the art: what techniques and formulas have been popular, the tropes that are widely used, and how artists have found ways of renewing or overturning established conventions.
Time And The Conways And Other Plays
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Author : John Boynton Priestley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Time And The Conways And Other Plays written by John Boynton Priestley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with categories.
Time And The Rose Garden
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Author : Anthony Peake
language : en
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Release Date : 2018-01-26
Time And The Rose Garden written by Anthony Peake and has been published by John Hunt Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
J.B. Priestley is considered by many to be an old-fashioned playwright whose work is locked in a pre-war world of provincialism and whose ideas are way past their sell-by date. In Time and the Rose Garden, internationally recognised author Anthony Peake re-assesses the plays and novels of this fascinating writer. In doing so, Peake argues that Priestley should be recognised as one of the most prescient of all middle century playwrights and that his ideas on time, consciousness and mortality can be found in hugely popular blockbusters such as The Matrix, Vanilla Sky, Deja Vu, Sliding Doors, Butterfly Effect and many others.
The Theory And Analysis Of Drama
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Author : Manfred Pfister
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1988
The Theory And Analysis Of Drama written by Manfred Pfister 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 1988 with Drama categories.
Manfred Pfister's book is the first to provide a coherent comprehensive framework for the analysis of plays in all their dramatic and theatrical dimensions. The material on which his analysis is based covers all genres and periods. His approach is systematic rather than historical, combining more abstract categorisations with detailed interpretations of sample texts.
The Oxford English Literary History Volume 10 1910 1940 The Modern Movement
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Author : Chris Baldick
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2005-11-10
The Oxford English Literary History Volume 10 1910 1940 The Modern Movement written by Chris Baldick and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
This exciting new volume provides a freshly inclusive account of literature in England in the period before, during, and after the First World War. Chris Baldick places the modernist achievements of Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and James Joyce within the rich context of non-modernist writings across all major genres, allowing 'high' literary art to be read against the background of 'low' entertainment. Looking well beyond the modernist vanguard, Baldick highlights the survival and renewal of realist traditions in these decades of post-Victorian disillusionment. Ranging widely across psychological novels, war poems, detective stories, satires, and children's books, The Modern Movement provides a unique survey of the literature of this turbulent time.
J B Priestley
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Author : Maggie B. Gale
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008-03-03
J B Priestley written by Maggie B. Gale and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-03 with Art categories.
The first book to provide a detailed and up to date analysis of Priestley’s enormous contribution to twentieth century British theatre. This study unpicks the contradictions of a playwright and theatre theorist popular with audiences but too often dismissed by critics.