The Death of the Playwright?
Title | The Death of the Playwright? PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian Page |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 1992-02-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1349219061 |
The nine essays in this volume make significant contributions to the development of contemporary literary theory and demonstrate how a range of new approaches can be applied to modern British drama. In addressing the questions of power, subjectivity, sexuality, psychoanalysis, and the nature of the dramatic text, the contributors reveal how much modern drama can be re-read to discover its radically subversive characteristics. Their conclusions challenge accepted interpretations and suggest major revisions of the processes of understanding and staging drama.
Death of a Playwright
Title | Death of a Playwright PDF eBook |
Author | Burton Snyder |
Publisher | |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | American drama |
ISBN |
The Death of the Playwright?
Title | The Death of the Playwright? PDF eBook |
Author | A. Page |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | English drama |
ISBN |
Death, the One and the Art of Theatre
Title | Death, the One and the Art of Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | Howard Barker |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780415349864 |
The latest collection of Barker's philosophical musings on theatre, this volume includes speculations, deductions, prose poems & poetic apercus, which cast a unique light on the nature of tragedy, eroticism, love & theatre.
The Book of Will
Title | The Book of Will PDF eBook |
Author | Lauren Gunderson |
Publisher | Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
Pages | 95 |
Release | 2018-06-18 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0822237725 |
Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their lives. They’ll just have to borrow, beg, and band together to get it done. Amidst the noise and color of Elizabethan London, THE BOOK OF WILL finds an unforgettable true story of love, loss, and laughter, and sheds new light on a man you may think you know.
The Playwright's Muse
Title | The Playwright's Muse PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Herrington |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2013-05-13 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1136542124 |
August 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.
Death by Design
Title | Death by Design PDF eBook |
Author | Rob Urbinati |
Publisher | Samuel French, Incorporated |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780573700934 |
Edward Bennett, a playwright, and his wife Sorel Bennett, an actress, flee London and head to Cookham after a disastrous opening night. But various guests arrive unexpectedly - a conservative politician, a fiery socialist, a nearsighted ingenue, a zany modern dancer - each with a long-held secret. When one of the guests is murdered, it's left to Bridgit, the feisty Irish maid with a macabre interest in homicide, to solve the crime.