Author: Enoch BraterPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472105830
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Seventeen prominent critics reconsider the "modern" in drama
The Theatrical Gamut
Author: Enoch BraterPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472105830
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Seventeen prominent critics reconsider the "modern" in drama
World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre
Author: Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer)Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136119086
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1344
Book Description
An annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.
John Guare’s Theatre
Author: Robert J. AndreachPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144380391X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
From the 1960s to the present day, John Guare’s plays have ranged from one-act to cyclic, realistic to surrealistic, naturalistic to experimental, and tragic to comic dramas. This study’s approach to the cornucopia the playwright himself provided when in an interview he gave a fundamental aesthetic principle of his craft. Like a person—and Guare’s plays develop the personal as well as the artistic self—a play must be grounded in reality; only then can it soar. The ground is traditional theatre with characters, no matter how larger than life they can be, and plot, no matter how illogical it can be. The soaring is in interrupting the action with monological narratives and musical interludes, bringing characters back from the dead, and having the action take hairpin turns into a mixture of genres and styles, modes and tones. In verbal and visual images, the flight invokes works by authors as varied as Aeschylus and Whitman, Dante and Feydeau, Verdi and Romberg. Soaring from ground to new ground, the theatre creates the transmission of the American heritage in Lake Hollywood, an idealism corrupted by a fraudulent American Dream in Lydie Breeze, and the recovery of the past in A Few Stout Individuals. As Guare said about his plays: they “interconnect.”
The Drama
Author: The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
Author: Charles A. CarpenterPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 144118421X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
The Drama Magazine
Author: Charles Hubbard SergeiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
The Drama Magazine
Author: Cruelty and Desire in the Modern Theater
Author: Laurens De VosPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson
ISBN: 1611470455
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Departing from a refreshing look at the ideas of Antonin Artaud, this book provides a thorough analysis of how both Sarah Kane and Samuel Beckett are indebted to his legacy. In juxtaposing these playwrights, De Vos minutely points out how both in their own way struggle with coming to terms with Artaud. A key concept in Lacanian psychoanalytic theories, desire lies at the root of the Theatre of Cruelty; Kane and Beckett prove that desire and cruelty are inextricably linked to one another, but that they appear in radically different disguises. Relying on Kane and Beckett, this book not only sheds a light on the precise intentions behind Artaud's project, it also maps out the structural parallels and dichotomies between the Theatre of Cruelty and the literary genre of tragedy.
Samuel Beckett
Author: Ruby CohnPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A full-length study of Samuel Beckett by author Ruby Cohn that intertwines careful analysis with biographical, translation and publishing information to illuminate and explain Beckett's paradoxes.
Thunder on the Stage
Author: Bruce Allen DickPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252055462
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
Richard Wright’s dramatic imagination guided the creation of his masterpieces Native Son and Black Boy and helped shape Wright’s long-overlooked writing for theater and other performative mediums. Drawing on decades of research and interviews with Wright’s family and Wright scholars, Bruce Allen Dick uncovers the theatrical influence on Wright’s oeuvre--from his 1930s boxing journalism to his unpublished one-acts on returning Black GIs in WWII to his unproduced pageant honoring Vladimir Lenin. Wright maintained rewarding associations with playwrights, writers, and actors such as Langston Hughes, Theodore Ward, Paul Robeson, and Lillian Hellman, and took particular inspiration from French literary figures like Jean-Paul Sartre. Dick’s analysis also illuminates Wright’s direct involvement with theater and film, including the performative aspects of his travel writings; the Orson Welles-directed Native Son on Broadway; his acting debut in Native Son’s first film version; and his play “Daddy Goodness,” a satire of religious charlatans like Father Divine, in the 1930s. Bold and original, Thunder on the Stage offers a groundbreaking reinterpretation of a major American writer.