Famous American Plays of the 1920s and the 1930s
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 744
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Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections
Author: Denise L. Montgomery
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2011-08-11
Total Pages: 834
ISBN-13: 081087721X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRepresenting the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume of Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections is the standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States throughout the 20th century and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors.
Famous American Plays of the 1940s
Author: Henry Hewes
Publisher: Laurel Press
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9780440324904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 6 plays in this collection include The Skin of Our Teeth, All My Sons, and Member of the Wedding.
Dance Marathons
Author: Carol J. Martin
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781604737684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis penetrating analysis of one of the most extraordinary fads ever to strike America details how dance marathons manifested a potent from of drama. Between the two world wars they were a phenomenon in which working-class people engaged in emblematic struggles for survival. Battling to outlast other contestants, the dancers hoped to become notable. There was crippling exhaustion and anguish among the contenders, but ultimately it was the coupling of authentic pain with staged displays that made dance marathons a national craze. Within the well-controlled space of theatre they revealed actual life's unpredictability and inconsistencies, and, indeed, the frightful aspects of social Darwinism. In this grotesque theatrical setting we see also a horrifying metaphor - the ailing nation grappling with difficult times.
100 Greatest American Plays
Author: Thomas S. Hischak
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017-03-06
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 1442256060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheatre in America has had a rich history—from the first performance of the Lewis Hallam Troupe in September 1752 to the lively shows of modern Broadway. Over the past few centuries, significant works by American playwrights have been produced, including Abie’s Irish Rose, Long Day’s Journey into Night, A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, A Raisin in the Sun, Fences, and Angels in America. In 100 Greatest American Plays, Thomas S. Hischak provides an engaging discussion of the best stage productions to come out of the United States. Each play is discussed in the context of its original presentation as well as its legacy. Arranged alphabetically, the entries for these plays include: plot details production history biography of the playwright literary aspects of the drama critical reaction to the play major awards the play’s influence cast lists of notable stage and film versions The plays have been selected not for their popularity but for their importance to American theatre and include works by Edward Albee, Harvey Fierstein, Lorraine Hansberry, Lillian Hellman, Tony Kushner, David Mamet, Arthur Miller, Eugene O’Neill, Sam Shepard, Neil Simon, Gore Vidal, Wendy Wasserstein, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, and August Wilson. This informative volume also includes complete lists of Pulitzer Prize winners for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for American Plays, and the Tony Award for Best Play. Providing critical information about the most important works produced since the eighteenth century, 100 Greatest American Plays will appeal to anyone interested in the cultural history of theatre.
Famos American Plays of the 1960s
Author: Harold Clurman
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 404
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater
Author: James Fisher
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2011-06-01
Total Pages: 1003
ISBN-13: 0810879506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom legends like Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller to successful present-day playwrights like Neil LaBute, Tony Kushner, and David Mamet, some of the most important names in the history of theater are from the past 80 years. Contemporary American theater has produced some of the most memorable, beloved, and important plays in history, including Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, Barefoot in the Park, Our Town, The Crucible, A Raisin in the Sun, and The Odd Couple. Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater presents the plays and personages, movements and institutions, and cultural developments of the American stage from 1930 to 2010, a period of vast and almost continuous change. It covers the ever-changing history of the American theater with emphasis on major movements, persons, plays, and events. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 1,500 cross-referenced dictionary entries. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the history of American theater.
American Literature in Transition, 1920–1930
Author: Ichiro Takayoshi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-12-28
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 1108307809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican Literature in Transition, 1920–1930 examines the dynamic interactions between social and literary fields during the so-called Jazz Age. It situates the era's place in the incremental evolution of American literature throughout the twentieth century. Essays from preeminent critics and historians analyze many overlapping aspects of American letters in the 1920s and re-evaluate an astonishingly diverse group of authors. Expansive in scope and daring in its mixture of eclectic methods, this book extends the most exciting advances made in the last several decades in the fields of modernist studies, ethnic literatures, African-American literature, gender studies, transnational studies, and the history of the book. It examines how the world of literature intersected with other arts, such as cinema, jazz, and theater, and explores the print culture in transition, with a focus on new publishing houses, trends in advertising, readership, and obscenity laws.
Love Me Tonight
Author: Geoffrey Holden Block
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 0197566197
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this Oxford Guide to Film Musicals, renowned author Geoffrey Block introduces scholars, students, and general readers to the remarkable musical film, Love Me Tonight (1932) from a accessible musicological perspective, giving readers of all stripes new ways to hear this classic film.
Encyclopedia of American Humorists
Author: Steven H. Gale
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-14
Total Pages: 1324
ISBN-13: 1317362268
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.
