Eugene O'Neill and the Emergence of American Drama
Title | Eugene O'Neill and the Emergence of American Drama PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2021-11-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004490620 |
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Title | Long Day's Journey Into Night PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene O'Neill |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 341 |
Release | 2014-05-06 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0300190182 |
divEugene O’Neill’s autobiographical play Long Day’s Journey into Night is regarded as his masterpiece and a classic of American drama. With this new edition, at last it has the critical edition that it deserves. William Davies King provides students and theater artists with an invaluable guide to the text, including an essay on historical and critical perspectives; glosses of literary allusions and quotations; notes on the performance history; an annotated bibliography; and illustrations. "This is a worthy new edition, one that I'm sure will appeal to many students and teachers. William Davies King provides a thoughtful introduction to Long Day's Journey into Night—equally sensitive to the most particular and most encompassing of the play's materials."—Marc Robinson/DIV
American Drama, 1940-1960
Title | American Drama, 1940-1960 PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas P. Adler |
Publisher | Macmillan Reference USA |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Drama |
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"The 1940s and 1950s indisputably compose the classic period of American drama, witnessing the first productions of The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey Into Night, of Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, of The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Thomas P. Adler tells the story of these remarkable years largely through its dominant voices: Eugene O'Neill, Lillian Hellman, Arthur Miller, William Inge, Lorraine Hansberry, Edward Albee, and Tennessee Williams. One chapter - in Williams's case two - is devoted to each, and through careful analysis of the work of one playwright after another the persistent themes of the period emerge."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Intertextuality in American Drama
Title | Intertextuality in American Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Drew Eisenhauer |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2012-12-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0786463910 |
The new essays in this collection, on such diverse writers as Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, Maurine Dallas Watkins, Sophie Treadwell, and Washington Irving, fill an important conceptual gap. The essayists offer numerous approaches to intertextuality: the influence of the poetry of romanticism and Shakespeare and of histories and novels, ideological and political discourses on American playwrights, unlikely connections between such writers as Miller and Wilder, the problems of intertexts in translation, the evolution in historical and performance contexts of the same tale, and the relationships among feminism, the drama of the courtroom, and the drama of the stage. Intertextuality has been an under-explored area in studies of dramatic and performance texts. The innovative findings of these scholars testify to the continuing vitality of research in American drama and performance.
The O'Neill
Title | The O'Neill PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Sweet |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2014-05-27 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0300195575 |
"At the O'Neill, we were all engaged with full-hearted passion in sometimes the silliest of exercises, and all in service of finding that wiggly, elusive creature, a new play."—Meryl Streep "I would not be who or where I am today without the O'Neill."—Michael Douglas As the old ways of the commercial theater were dying and American playwriting was in crisis, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center arose as a midwife to new plays and musicals, introducing some of the most exciting talents of our time (including August Wilson, Wendy Wasserstein, and Christopher Durang) and developing works that went on to win Pulitzer Prizes and Tony Awards. Along the way, it collaborated with then-unknown performers (like Meryl Streep, Michael Douglas, Courtney Vance, and Angela Bassett) and inspired Robert Redford in his creation of the Sundance Institute. This is the story of a theatrical laboratory, a place that transformed American theater, film, and television.
The Oxford Handbook of American Drama
Title | The Oxford Handbook of American Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey H. Richards |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 593 |
Release | 2014-02 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0199731497 |
This volume explores the history of American drama from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It describes origins of early republican drama and its evolution during the pre-war and post-war periods. It traces the emergence of different types of American drama including protest plays, reform drama, political drama, experimental drama, urban plays, feminist drama and realist plays. This volume also analyzes the works of some of the most notable American playwrights including Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller and those written by women dramatists.
George Jean Nathan and the Making of Modern American Drama Criticism
Title | George Jean Nathan and the Making of Modern American Drama Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas F. Connolly |
Publisher | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780838637807 |
"Readers drawn to the "Roaring Twenties," gossip about the Great White Way, discussion of high, middle, and low-brow culture will seek out this book."--BOOK JACKET.