Genesis of an American Playwright
Title | Genesis of an American Playwright PDF eBook |
Author | Horton Foote |
Publisher | Baylor University Press |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0918954916 |
Besides To Kill A Mockingbird and The Trip To Bountiful, Foote has written a score of notable plays, teleplays, and films.
Clifford Odets
Title | Clifford Odets PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Brenman-Gibson |
Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation |
Pages | 788 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781557834577 |
(Applause Books). Clifford Odets through his plays, which include "Waiting for Lefty" and "Awake" and "Sing!", was the champion of the oppressed, avenger for the poor. He and his plays, as presented by the influential Group Theatre, were the conscience of America during the Depression. Author Margaret Brenman-Gibson, a respected psychoanalyst and close personal friend, penned what is considered the classic biography of Odets. Based on exhaustive research, including access to his personal papers, plus her own insights into the man and his career, it is at last back in prtin. The book is richly annotated, with a thorough bibliography, personal chronology, a list of Odets' works, published and unpublished, and a section of rare photographs.
Improbable Patriot
Title | Improbable Patriot PDF eBook |
Author | Harlow G. Unger |
Publisher | UPNE |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1584659254 |
The outrageous true story of the French plot to supply arms and ammunition to Washington's Continental Army, and the bold French spy, inventor, playwright, and rogue behind it all
American Playwright...
Title | American Playwright... PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 1912 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
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 Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays
Title | The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays PDF eBook |
Author | David Adjmi |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 526 |
Release | 2013-03-28 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1472503430 |
The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays is an anthology of six outstanding plays from some of the most exciting playwrights currently receiving critical acclaim in the States. It showcases work produced at a number of the leading theatres during the last decade and charts something of the extraordinary range of current playwriting in America. It will be invaluable not only to readers and theatergoers in the U.S., but to those around the world seeking out new American plays and an insight into how U.S. playwrights are engaging with their current social and political environment. There is a rich collection of distinctive, diverse voices at work in the contemporary American theatre and this brings together six of the best, with work by David Adjmi, Marcus Gardley, Young Jean Lee, Katori Hall, Christopher Shinn and Dan LeFranc. The featured plays range from the intimate to the epic, the personal to the national and taken together explore a variety of cultural perspectives on life in America. The first play, David Adjmi's Stunning, is an excavation of ruptured identity set in modern day Midwood, Brooklyn, in the heart of the insular Syrian-Jewish community; Marcus Gardley's lyrical epic The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry deals with the migration of Black Seminoles, is set in mid-1800s Oklahoma and speaks directly to modern spirituality, relocation and cultural history; Young Jean Lee's Pullman, WA deals with self-hatred and the self-help culture in her formally inventive three-character play; Katori Hall's Hurt Village uses the real housing project of "Hurt Village" as a potent allegory for urban neglect set against the backdrop of the Iraq war; Christopher Shinn's Dying City melds the personal and political in a theatrical crucible that cracks open our response to 9/11 and Abu Graib, and finally Dan LeFranc's The Big Meal, an inter-generational play spanning eighty years, is set in the mid-west in a generic restaurant and considers family legacy and how some of the smallest events in life turn out to be the most significant.
The Crucible
Title | The Crucible PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Miller |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Salem (Mass.) |
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