Six Dramatists in Search of a Language
Six Dramatists in Search of a Language

Author: Andrew K. Kennedy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1975-01-23

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780521204927

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In this penetrating study Andrew Kennedy sets out to analyse the modern movement in drama through the theatrical language of six key figures writing in English - Shaw, Eliot, Beckett, Pinter, Osborne and Arden. Dr Kennedy argues that a study of theatrical language should be an exercise in 'practical criticism' and not merely narrowly linguistic. The whole range of theatrical expressiveness must be examined in detail from play text and performance alike and the conclusions correlated with the author's known intentions if a full evaluative judgement is to be attempted. Dr Kennedy shows how the modern movement in drama reveals a growing difficulty in creating any type of fully expressive dramatic language. He has written a work with an unusual breadth of reference, which should prove of value to all students of modern drama, modern English and European literature and to the theatre-going public.

Six French Plays
Six French Plays

Author: Eric Bentley

Publisher:

Published: 1961

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13:

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"The classic French drama began with Corneille's The Cid in 1636 and ended with Beaumarchais' Figaro's Marriage in 1784. Among its supreme masterpieces are Molière's The Misanthrope (1666) and Racine's Phaedra (1677), while only slightly less lustrous are Lesage's Turcaret (1707) and Marivaux' The False Confessions (1737). All six of these plays are contained in the present volume. Known hitherto only via Da Ponte's Italian libretto, Figaro's Marriage has been specially translated for The Classic Theatre by Jacques Barzun. The other five plays have been tackled by a team of distinguished American poets. Richard Wilbur's The Misanthrope has already been and off-Broadway hit in New York. W. S. Merwin's translations of Lesage and Marivaux have been successfully broadcast by the B.B.C. Robert Lowell and James Schevill were commissioned by Eric Bentley to translate Phaedra and The Cid respectively. This is the fourth and last volume of a set: Volume I is devoted to Italian, Volume II to German, and Volume III to Spanish drama. A complete table of contents will be found inside the book." --

A History of Modern Drama, Volume I
A History of Modern Drama, Volume I

Author: David Krasner

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-08-31

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 1444343742

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Covering the period 1879 to 1959, and taking in everything from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is volume one of a two-part comprehensive examination of the plays, dramatists, and movements that comprise modern world drama. Contains detailed analysis of plays and playwrights, connecting themes and offering original interpretations Includes coverage of non-English works and traditions to create a global view of modern drama Considers the influence of modernism in art, music, literature, architecture, society, and politics on the formation of modern dramatic literature Takes an interpretative and analytical approach to modern dramatic texts rather than focusing on production history Includes coverage of the ways in which staging practices, design concepts, and acting styles informed the construction of the dramas

The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays
The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays

Author: Bertolt Brecht

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780802150981

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These six plays represent the best and most humorous of Brecht's shorter works. The Jewish Wife is from the Fear and Misery in the Third Reich cycle of one-act plays, which, along with In Search of Justice and The Informer, chromicles the hardships of life in Nazi Germany. The Exception and the Rule, one of Brecht's most popular short works, grimly depicts the consequences of the mutually dependent -- yet inevitable inequitable -- relationship between the priviledged and the poor; it is included here with The Measures Taken and The Elephant Calf. Though all of these ales of horror, ad Eric Bentley calls them, have tragic undertones, they are also infused with farcical absurdities and cosmic irony so characteristic of Brecht's work.

New Theatre Quarterly 28: Volume 7, Part 4
New Theatre Quarterly 28: Volume 7, Part 4

Author: Clive Barker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-02-06

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 9780521406642

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One of a series which discusses topics of interest in theatre studies from various perspectives. Part 28 includes discussions of 'Mother Courage' at the Citizens, 1990, by Margaret Eddershaw, and Wole Soyinka's 'Death and the King's Horseman', at the Royal Exchange, 1990, by Martin Banham.

Clifford Odets
Clifford Odets

Author: Margaret Brenman-Gibson

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 788

ISBN-13: 9781557834577

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(Applause Books). Clifford Odets through his plays, which include "Waiting for Lefty" and "Awake" and "Sing!", was the champion of the oppressed, avenger for the poor. He and his plays, as presented by the influential Group Theatre, were the conscience of America during the Depression. Author Margaret Brenman-Gibson, a respected psychoanalyst and close personal friend, penned what is considered the classic biography of Odets. Based on exhaustive research, including access to his personal papers, plus her own insights into the man and his career, it is at last back in prtin. The book is richly annotated, with a thorough bibliography, personal chronology, a list of Odets' works, published and unpublished, and a section of rare photographs.

Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights, vol 6
Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights, vol 6

Author: Derek Hughes

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-11-01

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1040288170

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This six-volume anthology documents the history of women's drama throughout the 18th century, starting with the emergence in 1695-6 of the second generation of women dramatists to Aphra Benn. It includes the work of Catherine Trotter, Mary Pix, Eliza Haywood and Elizabeth Griffith.

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800

Author: George Watson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1971-07-02

Total Pages: 1698

ISBN-13: 9780521079341

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More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.