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Author: C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-12-21
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780521794107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew edition of Modern American Drama completes the survey and comes up to 2000.
Author: Jeffrey H. Richards
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-02
Total Pages: 593
ISBN-13: 0199731497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the history of American drama from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It describes origins of early republican drama and its evolution during the pre-war and post-war periods. It traces the emergence of different types of American drama including protest plays, reform drama, political drama, experimental drama, urban plays, feminist drama and realist plays. This volume also analyzes the works of some of the most notable American playwrights including Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller and those written by women dramatists.
Author: Michael Cotsell
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780820474663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Theater of Trauma is a groundbreaking rereading of the relations between psychology and drama in the age of Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, and their many brilliant contemporaries. American modernist Theater of Trauma drew its vision from the psychological investigation of trauma and its consequences - among them hysteria and dissociation - made by French and American psychiatrists such as the great Pierre Janet, Alfred Binet, William James, Morton Prince, and W.E.B. Du Bois; the European and American «dissociationist culture» that developed around their work; and the resulting trauma of World War I. American dramatists' deep resistance to Freud's suppression of trauma challenges the equation of Freud and modernism that has become commonplace in modernist criticism.
Author: Brian Nelson
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9781557833143
DOWNLOAD EBOOK(Applause Books). Includes: Amy Hill: Tokyo Bound ; David Henry Hwang: Bondage ; Velina Hasu Houston: As Sometimes in a Dead Man's Face ; Lane Nishikawa and Victor Talmadge: The Gate of Heaven ; Dwight Okita: The Rainy Season .
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: Thomas F. Connolly
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780838637807
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Readers drawn to the "Roaring Twenties," gossip about the Great White Way, discussion of high, middle, and low-brow culture will seek out this book."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Marc Robinson
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780801856303
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays provides an alternative to the accepted account of the development of American drama. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author: Annette Saddik
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2007-09-13
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 074863066X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
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: August Wilson
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9781559361873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAugust Wilson's radical and provocative call to arms.
