The Poetry of Realistic Drama
Author: Robert Harland Wilcox
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 544
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Author: Robert Harland Wilcox
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 544
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 386
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Walter McFarlane
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780521423212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the history of modern theatre, Ibsen is one of the dominating figures. The sixteen chapters of this 1994 Companion explore his life and work, providing an invaluable reference work for students. In chronological terms they range from an account of Ibsen's earliest pieces, through the years of rich experimentation, to the mature 'Ibsenist' plays that made him famous towards the end of the nineteenth century. Among the thematic topics are discussions of Ibsen's comedy, realism, lyric poetry and feminism. Substantial chapters account for Ibsen's influence on the international stage and his challenge to theatre and film directors and playwrights today. Essential reference materials include a full chronology, list of works and essays on twentieth-century criticism and further reading.
Author: Jordan Tannahill
Publisher: Coach House Books
Published: 2015-05-11
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 177056411X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow dull plays are killing theatre and what we can do about it. Had I become disenchanted with the form I had once fallen so madly in love with as a pubescent, pimple-faced suburban homo with braces? Maybe theatre was like an all-consuming high school infatuation that now, ten years later, I saw as the closeted balding guy with a beer gut he’d become. There were of course those rare moments of transcendencethat kept me coming back. But why did they come so few and far between? A lot of plays are dull. And one dull play, it seems, can turn us off theatre for good. Playwright and theatre director Jordan Tannahill takes in the spectrum of English-language drama – from the flashiest of Broadway spectacles to productions mounted in scrappy storefront theatres – to consider where lifeless plays come from and why they persist. Having travelled the globe talking to theatre artists, critics, passionate patrons and the theatrically disillusioned, Tannahill addresses what he considers the culture of ‘risk aversion’ paralyzing the form. Theatre of the Unimpressed is Tannahill’s wry and revelatory personal reckoning with the discipline he’s dedicated his life to, and a roadmap for a vital twenty-first-century theatre – one that apprehends the value of ‘liveness’ in our mediated age and the necessity for artistic risk and its attendant failures. In considering dramaturgy, programming and alternative models for producing, Tannahill aims to turn theatre from an obligation to a destination. ‘[Tannahill is] the poster child of a new generation of (theatre? film? dance?) artists for whom "interdisciplinary" is not a buzzword, but a way of life.’ —J. Kelly Nestruck, Globe and Mail ‘Jordan is one of the most talented and exciting playwrights in the country, and he will be a force to be reckoned with for years to come.’ —Nicolas Billon, Governor General's Award–winning playwright (Fault Lines)
Author: Hugh Skyes Davies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-10-09
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1107692385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1934, this book contains the text of the Le Bas prize Essay for the same year on the subject of realism in drama. Davies reviews dramas from the ancient Greeks to the nineteenth century and how they addressed realism in theory and in practice. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of the theatre and the overlap of truth and fiction.
Author: Ronald Peacock
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Steven Earnshaw
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013-01-18
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 1847794041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRealism is an essential concept in literary studies, yet for a variety of reasons it has not received the attention and clarity it deserves, often being dismissed as ‘too slippery’ to be of use. This accessible study remedies that failing for students and scholars of English Literature and Literary Theory alike, plainly setting out what realism is, the issues surrounding it, and its role in other major literary modes such as modernism and postmodernism. Beginning Realism gives detailed coverage of the nineteenth-century realist novel through its focus on novels by Gaskell, Eliot, Trollope, Dickens, Mrs Oliphant, Thackeray and Zola. As well as discussing ‘the novel’, the book also includes chapters on the use of realism in drama and poetry and a chapter on ‘the language of realism’, another aspect often overlooked in analysis of the concept.
Author: Henrik Ibsen
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781591070719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1909 I wrote, at Mrs. Garrets request, the following note for Mr. E. T. Cooks Memoir of Edmund Garret: Garrets translation of Brand is, so far as the noblest and most vital portions of that great drama are concerned, a truly inspired piece of work. The pity and terror of the poem had entered into him and were part and parcel of his whole sense of human life." Philip H. WicksteedIbsen's early poetic drama, composed in 1865, in which a priest is driven by faith to risk and witness the deaths of his wife and child. Brand was Ibsens first masterpiece, published to tremendous critical and popular acclaim. Translated from the Norwegian by Fydell Edmund Garrett, with an introduction by Philip H. Wicksteed.
Author: Henrik Ibsen
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2007-10-01
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 1434493547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHenrik Johan Ibsen (1828-1906) was a major Norwegian playwright largely responsible for the rise of modern realistic drama. He is often referred to as the "father of modern drama."
Author: Philip George Hill
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780838634110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA multi-volume series that surveys European drama from ancient Greece to the mid-twentieth century.