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Contemporary African American Women Playwrights
A Casebook
Häftad, 2012
1035 kr
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'The impressive array of scholars gathered in this collection, all experts in the field, read the plays with nuance and situate them deftly within their cultural and historical contexts. Scholars of contemporary theater and drama and of African American literature will find value in this engaging …
Martin McDonagh
A Casebook
Häftad, 2013
850 kr
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This book represents the first collection of original critical material on Martin McDonagh, one of the most celebrated young playwrights of the last decade. Credited with reinvigorating contemporary Irish drama, his dark, despairing comedies have been performed extensively both on Broadway and in …
Suzan-Lori Parks
A Casebook
Av Kevin J. Wetmore Jr, Alycia Smith-Howard
Häftad, 2012
850 kr
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Suzan-Lori Parks confirmed herself as one of the most exciting and successful playwrights of her generation when her work Topdog/Underdog was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, making her the only African American woman to win the award.Despite the cultural weight of this achievement, Parks remains …
Neil LaBute
A Casebook
Häftad, 2014
1035 kr
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Neil LaBute: A Casebook is the first book to examine one of the most successful and controversial contemporary American playwrights and filmmakers. While he is most famous, and in some cases infamous, for his early films In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors, Labute is equally …
A.R. Gurney
Inbunden, 2003
2904 kr
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This is the first full-length study devoted to the art of A.R. Gurney, a major contemporary American playwright who has written over thirty plays, including Love Letters. This volume brings together original interviews with Gurney and four actors and a director who have worked closely with him, as …
Pinter at 70
A Casebook
Av Lois Gordon
Häftad, 2001
698 kr
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This comprehensive and authoritative casebook includes cornerstone essays on Pinter's creative process, his politics, film adaptations, and acting career. It also includes a collection of photos found nowhere else that document Pinter's "golden time"--his early acting days in Ireland--, a …
Suzan-Lori Parks
A Casebook
Av Kevin J. Wetmore Jr, Alycia Smith-Howard
Inbunden, 2007
2904 kr
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Suzan-Lori Parks confirmed herself as one of the most exciting and successful playwrights of her generation when her work Topdog/Underdog was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, making her the only African American woman to win the award.Despite the cultural weight of this achievement, Parks remains …
Martin McDonagh
A Casebook
Inbunden, 2007
2904 kr
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This book represents the first collection of original critical material on Martin McDonagh, one of the most celebrated young playwrights of the last decade. Credited with reinvigorating contemporary Irish drama, his dark, despairing comedies have been performed extensively both on Broadway and in …
Neil LaBute
A Casebook
Inbunden, 2006
2904 kr
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Neil LaBute: A Casebook is the first book to examine one of the most successful and controversial contemporary American playwrights and filmmakers. While he is most famous, and in some cases infamous, for his early films In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors, Labute is equally …
Contemporary African American Women Playwrights
A Casebook
Inbunden, 2007
2904 kr
Lägg i varukorg
'The impressive array of scholars gathered in this collection, all experts in the field, read the plays with nuance and situate them deftly within their cultural and historical contexts. Scholars of contemporary theater and drama and of African American literature will find value in this engaging …
Arnold Wesker
A Casebook
Inbunden, 1998
1759 kr
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The only collection of essays on one of Britain's Angry Young Men, this book contains discussions of most of Wesker's published plays with an emphasis on the more recent works. Essays reevaluate the plays that made Wesker a household name in Britain (the Trilogy, TheKitchen , and Chips with …
Marsha Norman
A Casebook
Inbunden, 1996
1153 kr
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This collection of ten original (and one reprinted) essays provides an in-depth examination of one of America's foremost contemporary playwrights. Established critics as well as younger scholars examine well-known works such as Getting Out, 'night, Mother, The Laundromat, and the adaptation of The …
Terrence McNally
A Casebook
Inbunden, 1997
2904 kr
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This collection of essays and interviews is the first book about the drama of American playwright Terrence McNally; it examines his career to date (30-plus years), focusing particularly on the two plays for which McNally won Tony Awards for Best Play of 1995, Love! Valour! Compassion!, and Best …
Horton Foote
A Casebook
Inbunden, 1997
1575 kr
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This study is the first general critical introduction to the writing of Horton Foote, recipient of two Academy Awards and the Pulitzer Prize. These original essays survey Foote's career, his work for theater, television, and film, with analysis of Foote's major themes and characteristic style in …
Samuel Beckett
A Casebook
Av Jennifer M. Jeffers, Jennifer M. Jeffers
Inbunden, 1998
2904 kr
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Samuel Beckett: A Casebook may be characterized as a new collection of essays by a generation of Beckett scholars who did not have access to the author. This text demarcates the line between the critical work produced when Beckett was alive, and the critical work produced within ten years of the …
Wendy Wasserstein
A Casebook
Inbunden, 1998
2904 kr
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Wendy Wasserstein: A Casebook contains in-depth discussions of the playwright's major works, including her recent play 1 An American Daughter. Wasserstein's plays and essays are explored within diverse traditions, including Jewish storytelling, women's writing, and classical comedy. Critical …
Edward Albee
A Casebook
Av Bruce Mann
Inbunden, 2002
2904 kr
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From the "angry young man" who wrote Who's Afraid ofVirginia Woolf in 1962, determined to expose the emptiness of American experience to Tiny Alice which reveals his indebtedness to Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco's Theatre of the Absurd, Edward Albee's varied work makes it difficult to label him …
Stephen Sondheim
A Casebook
Häftad, 1999
698 kr
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Stephen Sondheim is an artist with many contradictory facets: he is an avant-garde composer and lyricist working in the populist art form, an apparently dry and acerbic critic who captures all the ambivalent pain of passion, an intellectual whose work contains some of the funniest bawdy lines on …
Joe Orton
A Casebook
Inbunden, 2002
1759 kr
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While writers, dramatists and film-makers have already found inspiration in Orton's colourful life story, this Casebook comprises the first collection of scholarly criticism to investigate the works, life and legacy of the controversial playwright.
August Wilson
A Casebook
Häftad, 2000
923 kr
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The only African American playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize twice, Wilson has yet to receive the critical attention that he merits. With 12 original essays, this volume provides a thorough introduction to his body of work.
Beth Henley
A Casebook
Inbunden, 2002
1759 kr
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Beth Henley was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play for her first full-length play, Crimes of the Heart , yet there has been no book-length consideration of her body of work until now. This volume includes original essays that …
David Hare
A Casebook
Inbunden, 1994
2904 kr
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Learning that David Hare has written sixteen stage plays, eight collaborations, and eleven screenplays for film and television, one might be surprised by the fact that this leading English artist is not yet fifty years old. He was only twenty-two when his first play was performed by the Portable …
John Osborne
A Casebook
Inbunden, 1997
883 kr
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For British playwright, John Osborne, there are no brave causes; only people who muddle through life, who hurt, and are often hurt in return. This study deals with Osborne's complete oeuvre and critically examines its form and technique; the function of the gaze; its construction of gender; and the …
Samuel Beckett
A Casebook
Av Jennifer M. Jeffers, Jennifer M. Jeffers
Häftad, 2015
951 kr
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Samuel Beckett: A Casebook may be characterized as a new collection of essays by a generation of Beckett scholars who did not have access to the author. This text demarcates the line between the critical work produced when Beckett was alive, and the critical work produced within ten years of the …
Beth Henley
A Casebook
Häftad, 2015
580 kr
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Beth Henley was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play for her first full-length play, Crimes of the Heart , yet there has been no book-length consideration of her body of work until now. This volume includes original essays that …
John Osborne
A Casebook
Häftad, 2015
446 kr
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For British playwright, John Osborne, there are no brave causes; only people who muddle through life, who hurt, and are often hurt in return. This study deals with Osborne's complete oeuvre and critically examines its form and technique; the function of the gaze; its construction of gender; and the …
Wendy Wasserstein
A Casebook
Häftad, 2016
917 kr
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Wendy Wasserstein: A Casebook contains in-depth discussions of the playwright's major works, including her recent play 1 An American Daughter. Wasserstein's plays and essays are explored within diverse traditions, including Jewish storytelling, women's writing, and classical comedy. Critical …
Arnold Wesker
A Casebook
Häftad, 2016
951 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The only collection of essays on one of Britain's Angry Young Men, this book contains discussions of most of Wesker's published plays with an emphasis on the more recent works. Essays reevaluate the plays that made Wesker a household name in Britain (the Trilogy, TheKitchen , and Chips with …
Terrence McNally
A Casebook
Häftad, 2016
917 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This collection of essays and interviews is the first book about the drama of American playwright Terrence McNally; it examines his career to date (30-plus years), focusing particularly on the two plays for which McNally won Tony Awards for Best Play of 1995, Love! Valour! Compassion!, and Best …
