The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller
The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller

Author: Christopher Bigsby

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-04-22

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1139826220

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Arthur Miller is regarded as one of the most important playwrights of the twentieth century, and his work continues to be widely performed and studied around the world. This updated Companion includes Miller's work since the publication of the first edition in 1997 - the plays Mr Peters' Connections, Resurrection Blues, and Finishing the Picture - and key productions of his plays since his death in 2005. The chapter on Miller and the cinema has been completely revised to include new films, and demonstrates that Miller's work remains an important source for filmmakers. In addition to detailed analyses of plays including Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, Miller's work is also placed within the context of the social and political climate of the time. The volume closes with a bibliographic essay which reviews the key studies of Miller and also contains a detailed chronology of the work of this influential dramatist.

The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller
The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller

Author: C. W. E. Bigsby

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-11-13

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780521559928

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This Companion provides an introduction to one of the most important playwrights of the twentieth century.

The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights
The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights

Author: Christopher Innes

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-12-19

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1408134810

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Unrivalled in its coverage of recent work and writers, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights surveys and analyses the breadth, vitality and development of theatrical work to emerge from America over the last fifty years. This authoritative guide leads you through the work of 25 major contemporary American playwrights, discussing more than 140 plays in detail. Written by a team of 25 eminent international scholars, each chapter provides: · a biographical introduction to the playwright's work; · a survey and concise analysis of the writer's most important plays; · a discussion of their style, dramaturgical concerns and critical reception; · a bibliography of published plays and a select list of critical works. Among the many Tony, Obie and Pulitzer prize-winning playwrights included are Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Suzan-Lori Parks, August Wilson, Paula Vogel and Neil LaBute. The abundance of work analysed enables fresh, illuminating conclusions to be drawn about the development of contemporary American playwriting.

Modern American Drama
Modern American Drama

Author: June Schlueter

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13:

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This collection presents twenty essays on twentieth-century plays by women, from Rachel Crothers to Meredith Monk, as well as overview essays on their predecessors. At least a dozen of the essays explicitly treat particular women's texts as dramas of rejection and rebellion.

Rereading Shepard
Rereading Shepard

Author: Leonard Wilcox

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1993-02-15

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1349225096

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Rereading Shepard draws together 13 original theoretical perspectives on one of America's most important contemporary playwrights. Representing a range of critical appraoches - including semiotics, deconstruction, and feminism - the essays address recent debates emerging in Shepard criticism. These include the status of Shepard's texts within the modernist tradition on the one hand and a developing post-modernism on the other, and the feminist debate over Shepard's drama - does it reinforce a masculinist world or does it provide some oppositional stance toward patriarchal 'master narratives'?