The Making of Modern Drama
Title | The Making of Modern Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Gilman |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2000-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780300079029 |
This critical exploration of modern drama begins with Büchner and Ibsen and then discusses the major playwrights who have shaped modern theater. A new introduction by the author assesses developments of recent years.
Brecht and Company
Title | Brecht and Company PDF eBook |
Author | John Fuegi |
Publisher | Grove Press |
Pages | 804 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780802139108 |
The result of twenty-five years of research on three continents, Brecht and Company is a revolutionary portrait of one of the world's greatest theater artists -- and the people upon whom he built his reputation. A noted Brecht scholar, John Fuegi traces the evolution of Brecht's parasitic relationships and aggressive ambition through close analysis of diaries, letters, and drafts of the literary works, revealing a man who was personally dazzling, a genius at assembling and directing the plays created in his workshop, but ultimately lacking in literary stamina, for which he depended on his lovers. A landmark study about the life and times of one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century theater, Brecht and Co. will forever change our understanding of Brecht and his oeuvre. "[An] enormous, fascinating biography." -- The New Yorker "One of the most important critical studies of the century." -- New York Magazine
Tragedy Walks the Streets
Title | Tragedy Walks the Streets PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew S. Buckley |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2006-09-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0801884349 |
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1956 and All That
Title | 1956 and All That PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Rebellato |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2002-03-11 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 113465782X |
It is said that British Drama was shockingly lifted out of the doldrums by the 'revolutionary' appearance of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court in May 1956. But had the theatre been as ephemeral and effeminate as the Angry Young Men claimed? Was the era of Terence Rattigan and 'Binkie' Beaumont as repressed and closeted as it seems? In this bold and fascinating challenge to the received wisdom of the last forty years of theatrical history, Dan Rebellato uncovers a different story altogether. It is one where Britain's declining Empire and increasing panic over the 'problem' of homosexuality played a crucial role in the construction of an enduring myth of the theatre. By going back to primary sources and rigorously questioning all assumptions, Rebellato has rewritten the history of the Making of Modern British Drama.
Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre
Title | Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick McGuinness |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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Maurice Maeterlinck has been called the 'prodigal father' of modern theatre. As Rilke put it, he shifted theatre's center of gravity, replacing action with inaction, events with the eventless, and dialogue with an expressive semantics of silence. This study, the first in over a decade, traces the development of Maeterlinck's dramatic vision of extraordinary originality and depth.
Modern Drama
Title | Modern Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Paul Knowles |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780802086211 |
The contributors examine varied topics such as the analysis of periodicity; the articulation of social, political, and cultural production in theatre; the re-evaluation of texts, performances, and canons; and demonstrations of how interdisciplinarity inflects theatre and its practice.
The Theatre of Revolt
Title | The Theatre of Revolt PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Brustein |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 454 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0929587537 |
First published in 1964 by Little, Brown. First Elephant paperback with a new preface by the author.