Thematic Guide to Modern Drama

Thematic Guide to Modern Drama
Title Thematic Guide to Modern Drama PDF eBook
Author Susan C. W. Abbotson
Publisher Greenwood
Pages 0
Release 2003
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0313319502

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Presents the numerous themes that weave their way through modern drama and highlights the variety of thought that exists in response to them.

Thematic Guide to Modern Drama

Thematic Guide to Modern Drama
Title Thematic Guide to Modern Drama PDF eBook
Author Susan C. W. Abbotson
Publisher Greenwood
Pages 312
Release 2003
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN

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Presents the numerous themes that weave their way through modern drama and highlights the variety of thought that exists in response to them.

Thematic Guide to World Mythology

Thematic Guide to World Mythology
Title Thematic Guide to World Mythology PDF eBook
Author Lorena Laura Stookey
Publisher Greenwood
Pages 264
Release 2004-03-30
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN

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This book examines 30 common motifs that thread their way through mythological tales across history and around the globe.

Staging Place

Staging Place
Title Staging Place PDF eBook
Author Una Chaudhuri
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Pages 330
Release 1997
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780472065899

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The first book-length study of the notion of place and its implications in modern drama

Broadway [2 volumes]

Broadway [2 volumes]
Title Broadway [2 volumes] PDF eBook
Author Thomas A. Greenfield
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 838
Release 2009-12-23
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0313342652

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This is the most comprehensive and insightful reference available on Broadway theater as an American cultural phenomenon and an illuminator of American life. Broadway: An Encyclopedia of Theater and American Culture is the first major reference work to explore just how much the "Great White Way" illuminates our national character. In two volumes spanning the era from the mid-19th century to the present, it offers nearly 200 entries on a variety of topics, including spotlights on 30 landmark productions—from Shuffle Along to Oklahoma! to Oh Calcutta! to The Producers—that not only changed American theater but American culture as well. In addition, Broadway offers thirty extended thematic essays gauging the powerful impact of theater on American life, with entries on race relations, women in society, sexuality, film, media, technology, tourism, and off-Broadway and noncommercial theater. There are also 110 profile entries on key persons and institutions—from the famous to the infamous to the all but forgotten—whose unique careers and contributions impacted Broadway and its place in the American landscape.

Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1950s

Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1950s
Title Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1950s PDF eBook
Author Susan C. W. Abbotson
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 328
Release 2019-11-14
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1350014613

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The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major writers and their works to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * William Inge: Picnic (1953), Bus Stop (1955) and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957); * Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents and Jerome Robbins: West Side Story (1957) and Gypsy (1959); * Alice Childress: Just a Little Simple (1950), Gold Through the Trees (1952) and Trouble in Mind (1955); * Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee: Inherit the Wind (1955), Auntie Mame (1956) and The Gang's All Here (1959).

The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy

The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy
Title The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy PDF eBook
Author Edwin Wong
Publisher FriesenPress
Pages 363
Release 2019
Genre Drama
ISBN 1525537555

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WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT, BIRNAM WOOD COMES TO DUNSINANE HILL The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy presents a profoundly original theory of drama that speaks to modern audiences living in an increasingly volatile world driven by artificial intelligence, gene editing, globalization, and mutual assured destruction ideologies. Tragedy, according to risk theatre, puts us face to face with the unexpected implications of our actions by simulating the profound impact of highly improbable events. In this book, classicist Edwin Wong shows how tragedy imitates reality: heroes, by taking inordinate risks, trigger devastating low-probability, high-consequence outcomes. Such a theatre forces audiences to ask themselves a most timely question---what happens when the perfect bet goes wrong? Not only does Wong reinterpret classic tragedies from Aeschylus to O’Neill through the risk theatre lens, he also invites dramatists to create tomorrow’s theatre. As the world becomes increasingly unpredictable, the most compelling dramas will be high-stakes tragedies that dramatize the unintended consequences of today's risk takers who are taking us past the point of no return.