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Author: C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1982-07-29
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780521271165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEugene O'Neill - Clifford Odets - Left-wing theatre - Black drama - Thornton Wilder - Lillian Hellman - Luigi Pirandello - Arthur Miller.
Author: C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985-05-02
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780521278966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe final volume of Christopher Bigsby's critical account of American drama in the twentieth century.
Author: C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1984-11-15
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780521277174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDr Bigsby analyses the early unpublished plays and the major works of Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller and Edward Albee.
Author: C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1984-11-15
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780521277174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the second volume in Christopher Bigsby's critical history of the important American dramatists and theatrical movements in the twentieth-century. Volume 1 brought the story to 1940 and included the last plays of O'Neill. In two further volumes Dr Bigsby covers the period from 1940 onwards. In Volume 2 he steps aside from the strict chronological progression to consider at length and in detail the achievement of the three great playwrights who dominate the post-war scene and who have earned an international reputation: Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller and Edward Albee. All three brought to the Broadway Theatre (discussed separately in Volume 3) a strong degree of moral seriousness and aesthetic sensitivity. Dr Bigsby gives a full account of the early unpublished plays and the major works by each playwright, drawing on biographical detail and political background to illuminate his reading of the plays, which are illustrated by photographs of important productions.
Author: Gerald M. Berkowitz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-15
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 131790172X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book Professor Berkowitz studies the diversity of American drama from the stylistic, experimental plays of O'Neill, through verse, tragedy and community theatre, to the theatre of the 1990s. The discussions range through dramatists, plays, genres and themes, with full supporting appendix material. It also examines major dramatists such as Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, Sam Shephard, Tennessee Williams and August Wilson and covers not only the Broadway scene but also off Broadway movements and fringe theatres and such subjects as women's and African-American drama.
Author: Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 657
ISBN-13: 1438129661
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeatures 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.
Author: David Krasner
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 600
ISBN-13: 1405137347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Companion provides an original and authoritative surveyof twentieth-century American drama studies, written by some of thebest scholars and critics in the field. Balances consideration of canonical material with discussion ofworks by previously marginalized playwrights Includes studies of leading dramatists, such as TennesseeWilliams, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill and Gertrude Stein Allows readers to make new links between particular plays andplaywrights Examines the movements that framed the century, such as theHarlem Renaissance, lesbian and gay drama, and the soloperformances of the 1980s and 1990s Situates American drama within larger discussions aboutAmerican ideas and culture
Author: Faruk Bajraktarević
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2016-08-17
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1443898031
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the convergences and divergences of American Studies today, and, more specifically, investigates how this discipline might be approached. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives, the essays brought together here address concerns related to the role and capacity of American Studies in the early 21st century, amidst alarming circumstances of environmental, economic, and educational degradation in a world characterized by a transnational flux of people, money, and cultures. Since its inception in the 1930s, the field of American Studies has been continuously examining its own disciplinary concepts, methodological approaches, and geographic assumptions. This book responds to calls for an open and critical discussion, offering a multifaceted image of the current approaches to American Studies as a complex and rapidly evolving discipline. The authors of the articles included here are academics and junior researchers who share their investigations and perceptions, ranging from linguistics, literature, economic history, Marx’s ideas, social theory, diasporic narratives, memory, trauma, gender issues, and teaching to popular culture-related phenomena and class-passing in ex-Yugoslavia against the background of the American Dream. The diverse and far-ranging representation of texts in this volume reflects the inseparability and confluence of different research interests within the discipline. The book avoids generalization and encourages interdisciplinarity through a number of critical and comparative contributions to this increasingly inclusive field of scholarship, which ensures its relevance in the ongoing debate about the capacity of American Studies to respond to an ever-broadening range of contemporary issues and challenges. Combining theory and practice in their examinations of academic and popular texts and investigations of American and non-American cultural matrices, the articles in this book will be interesting and useful to scholars and students, as well as the general reader.
Author: Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher: Infobase Learning
Published: 2015-04-22
Total Pages: 2466
ISBN-13: 1438140762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to American classics such as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Thornton Wilder's Our Town to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.
Author: Philip Zwerling
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2024-10-15
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1476612056
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