Fifty Modern and Contemporary Dramatists
Title | Fifty Modern and Contemporary Dramatists PDF eBook |
Author | Maggie B. Gale |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2014-11-27 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1317596226 |
Fifty Modern and Contemporary and Dramatists is a critical introduction to the work of some of the most important and influential playwrights from the 1950s to the present day. The figures chosen are among the most widely studied by students of drama, theatre and literature and include such celebrated writers as: • Samuel Beckett • Caryl Churchill • Anna Deavere Smith • Jean Genet • Sarah Kane • Heiner Müller • Arthur Miller • Harold Pinter • Sam Shephard Each short essay is written by one of an international team of academic experts and offers a detailed analysis of the playwright’s key works and career. The introduction provides an historical and theatrical context to the volume, which provides an invaluable overview of modern and contemporary drama.
Contemporary Dramatists
Title | Contemporary Dramatists PDF eBook |
Author | James Vinson |
Publisher | London : St. James Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press |
Pages | 1114 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists
Title | Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists PDF eBook |
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Release | 2008 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists PDF eBook |
Author | Ton Hoenselaars |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2012-10-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107494338 |
While Shakespeare's popularity has continued to grow, so has the attention paid to the work of his contemporaries. The contributors to this Companion introduce the distinctive drama of these playwrights, from the court comedies of John Lyly to the works of Richard Brome in the Caroline era. With chapters on a wide range of familiar and lesser-known dramatists, including Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Middleton and John Ford, this book devotes particular attention to their personal and professional relationships, occupational rivalries and collaborations. Overturning the popular misconception that Shakespeare wrote in isolation, it offers a new perspective on the most impressive body of drama in the history of the English stage.
Chief Contemporary Dramatists
Title | Chief Contemporary Dramatists PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas H. Dickinson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 700 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Drama |
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August Strindberg
Title | August Strindberg PDF eBook |
Author | Eszter Szalczer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2012-11-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1136979751 |
Dramatist, theatre practitioner, novelist, and painter, August Strindberg’s diverse dramatic output embodied the modernist sensibility. He was above all one of the most radical innovators of Western theatre. This book provides an insightful assessment of Strindberg’s vital contribution to the dramatic arts, while placing his creative process and experimental approach within a wider cultural context. Eszter Szalczer explores Strindberg’s re-definition of drama as a fluid, constantly evolving form that profoundly influenced playwriting and theatrical production from the German Expressionists to the Theatre of the Absurd. Key productions of Strindberg’s plays are analysed, examining his theatre as a living voice that continues to challenge audiences, critics, and even the most innovative directors. August Strindberg provides an essential and accessible guide to the playwright’s work and illustrates the influence of his drama on our understanding of contemporary theatre.
The Playwright's Art
Title | The Playwright's Art PDF eBook |
Author | Jackson R. Bryer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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On the evening of January 29, 1948, a new musical, 'Look, Ma, I'm Dancin'!', opened at New York's New Adelphi Theatre, marking the Broadway debut of a young playwriting team, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, who were responsible for the show's book. Forty-six years later, Lawrence and Lee are reworking their most recent play, Whisper In The Mind, for a potential New York production, but the intervening decades have seen major changes in the landscape of the American theatre. Many of these changes are discussed and debated in this collection of interviews and are exemplified in the careers of the dramatists included.