The Making of Modern Drama

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

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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

Brecht and Company
Title Brecht and Company PDF eBook
Author John Fuegi
Publisher Grove Press
Pages 804
Release 2002
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780802139108

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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

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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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First published in 1964 by Little, Brown. First Elephant paperback with a new preface by the author.