Studies in Modern Drama
Author: Dr. Amal Qutaishat
Publisher: دار الفلاح للنشر والتوزيع
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9957552058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book deals with studies of various elements of modern drama.
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Modern Dramatists
Author: Kimball King
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-03
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 1136521194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive collection gathers critical essays on the major works of the foremost American and British playwrights of the 20th century, written by leading figures in drama/performance studies.
The Playwright's Muse
Author: Joan Herrington
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-13
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1136542124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAugust Wilson penned his first play after seeing a man shot to death. Horton Foote began writing plays to create parts for himself as an actor. Edward Albee faced commercial pressures to modify his scripts-and resisted. After Wit, Margaret Edson swore off playwriting altogether and decided to keep her day job as a kindergarten teacher, instead. The Playwright's Muse presents never-before-published interviews with some of the greatest names of American drama-all recent winners of the Pulitzer Prize. In these scintillating exchanges with eleven leading dramatists, we learn about their inspirations and begin to grasp how the creative process works in the mind of a writer. We learn how their first plays took shape, how it felt to read their first reviews, and what keeps them writing for theater today. Introductory essays on each playwright's life and work, written by theater artists and scholars with strong professional relationships to their subjects, provide additional insight into the writers' contributions to contemporary theater.
Early Modern Academic Drama
Author: Jonathan Walker
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780754664642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContributors to this collection argue for the importance of academic drama as a site of cultural production in England from 1500 to 1700. They explore how these plays address various aspects of culture, including the relationship between the academy and the state, the tensions between humanism and religious reform, the social profits and economic liabilities of formal education, and the increasing involvement of universities in the commercial market, among other issues.
Studies in Modern Plays
Author: Hannah Amelia (Noyes) Davidson
Publisher:
Published: 1915
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Absent Father in Modern Drama
Author: Paul Rosefeldt
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"From the Freudians to the feminists, the role of the absent or hidden father figure has played a part in narrative and cultural theory. This work presents the first full-length examination of the absent father in modern drama. It closely analyzes major works by Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Williams, Miller, Shepard, Rabe, Henley, Norman, Pielmeier, Shaffer, Osborne, Churchill, and Fugard. Using the critical framework of psychological, deconstructive, and myth criticism, this book demonstrates how the consistent focus on an imposing father figure who never physically appears onstage affects the psychological, social, and metaphysical structure of major modern dramas."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Pinter Ethic
Author: Penelope Prentice
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 572
ISBN-13: 9780815338864
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
How to Study Modern Drama
Author: Kenneth Pickering
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 150
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKModern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater
Author: W. B. Worthen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2015-01-30
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0520286871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert "styles." Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W. B. Worthen instead sees drama as the interplay of text, stage production, and audience. How are audiences manipulated? What makes drama meaningful? Worthen identifies three rhetorical strategies that distinguish an O'Neill play from a Yeats, or these two from a Brecht. Where realistic theater relies on the "natural" qualities of the stage scene, poetic theater uses the poet's word, the text, to control performance. Modern political theater, by contrast, openly places the audience at the center of its rhetorical designs, and the drama of the postwar period is shown to develop a range of post-Brechtian practices that make the audience the subject of the play. Worthen's book deserves the attention of any literary critic or serious theatergoer interested in the relationship between modern drama and the spectator.
David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross
Author: Leslie Kane
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1996-10-01
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1136791701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 12 original and two classic essays offer a dialectic on performance and structure, and substantially advance our knowledge of this seminal playwright. The commentaries examine feminism, pernicious nostalgia, ethnicity, the mythological land motif, the discourse of anxiety, gendered language, and Mamet's vision of America, providing insights on the theatricality, originality, and universality of the work. Although the dominant focus is on Glengarry Glen Ross, several essays look at the play against the background of Mamet's Edmund, Reunion, and American Buffalo, whereas others find fascinating parallels in Emerson, Baudrillard, Conrad, Miller, and Churchill. The book also includes an interview with Sam Mendes, the director of the highly acclaimed 1994 revival of Glengarry Glen Ross in London, conducted specifically for this collectio. A chronology of major productions and the most current and comprehensive bibliography of secondary references from 1983-1995 complete the volume.
