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John Guare
A Research and Production Sourcebook
E-bok, 2002
1140 kr
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Best known for his plays Six Degrees of Separation and The House of Blue Leaves, John Guare is a major figure in the contemporary American theater. Other notable works by Guare include Bosoms and Neglect, Landscape of the Body, and the Lydie Breeze series. His career began with off-off-Broadway …
Edward Albee
A Research and Production Sourcebook
E-bok, 2003
1344 kr
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This volume documents the life and works of the acclaimed playwright, Edward Albee. His first four plays were all produced Off Broadway from 1960-1961, creating buzz that he was an up-and-coming avant-garde playwright. But his most notable accomplishment came a year later with his first full-length …
David Mamet
A Research and Production Sourcebook
Av Janice A. Sauer, David K. Sauer
E-bok, 2003
1344 kr
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The most complete record of a contemporary American dramatist available, David Mamet: A Resource and Production Sourcebook is the result of ten years' research by a widely published drama and theatre scholar and a university bibliographic specialist. Presenting a complete overview of all reviews …
Clifford Odets
A Research and Production Sourcebook
Inbunden, 1991
1060 kr
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Best known as a revolutionary playwright of the 1930s, Clifford Odets may have reached his zenith when four of his plays were produced on Broadway in 1935: Waiting for Lefty, Till the Day I Die, Awake and Sing!, and Paradise Lost. His plays, however, also show a romantic strain and are at least as …
Susan Glaspell
A Research and Production Sourcebook
Inbunden, 1993
1060 kr
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Co-founder of the Provincetown Players and one of its leading writers, Susan Glaspell won the Pulitzer Prize for Alison's House (1930) and was also successful as an actress, producer, and novelist. Her plays were compared, often favorably, with O'Neill's. After a period of eclipse, Glaspell's …
T.S. Eliot's Drama
A Research and Production Sourcebook
Inbunden, 1992
1060 kr
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Though better known for his poetry, T. S. Eliot wrote seven important plays between 1926 and 1958, of which Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1949) may be most produced. Posthumously, he won Tony Awards in 1983 for the musical adaptation of his poetry in the Broadway production …
Rachel Crothers
A Research and Production Sourcebook
Av Colette Lindroth, James Lindroth
Inbunden, 1995
515 kr
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Rachel Crothers had a fascinating and influential career as a woman playwright and director. She was a major part of Broadway history during the first half of the 20th century, when she wrote for leading actresses such as Tallulah Bankhead, Katharine Cornell, and Gertrude Lawrence. While she is …
Sean O'Casey
A Research and Production Sourcebook
Inbunden, 1996
1060 kr
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Sean O'Casey is recognized as one of the most important Irish playwrights of the 20th century. When he was in his early 20s, he committed himself to the nationalist struggle to free Ireland from English domination. During the Dublin General Strike and Lock-Out of 1913, he came to appreciate the …
S. N. Behrman
A Research and Production Sourcebook
Inbunden, 1992
898 kr
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Behrman's prolific career as a Broadway playwright and Hollywood screenwriter spans a period from the 1920s to the mid-1960s. As a writer for popular performance, he had to contend with commercial influences and with producers and directors involved in the dynamics of the collaborative process. …
Maxwell Anderson
A Research and Production Sourcebook
Inbunden, 1996
898 kr
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One of the most important American playwrights of the 20th century, Maxwell Anderson won a Pulitzer Prize for Both Your Houses (1933), and New York Drama Critics Circle awards for Winterset (1935) and High Tor (1936). Though he believed that poetry was the glory of drama, he also devoted himself to …
Clare Boothe Luce
A Research and Production Sourcebook
Av Mark Fearnow
Inbunden, 1995
829 kr
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Among the most commercially successful female playwrights of all times, Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) is best remembered as the author of The Women (1936), a biting social comedy. Beginning in 1942, she spent less of her time writing plays and turned instead to the wider stage of politics and world …
William Saroyan
A Research and Production Sourcebook
Av Jon Whitmore
Inbunden, 1994
898 kr
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William Saroyan, one of the most prolific writers in America, was the first playwright to win simultaneously both the New York Drama Critics' Circle award and the Pulitzer Prize in playwriting for The Time of Your Life in 1940. In spite of his success, he quickly disappeared from the public eye. …
August Wilson
A Research and Production Sourcebook
Inbunden, 1998
1426 kr
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When Ma Rainey's Black Bottom opened in 1984, August Wilson was unknown in theatre. By 1988 he was described as the foremost dramatist of the American black experience and was the most acclaimed playwright of his time by 1990. He is one of only seven American playwrights to win two Pulitzer prizes …
Lorraine Hansberry
A Research and Production Sourcebook
Inbunden, 1997
558 kr
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Born in the Southside of Chicago in 1930, Lorraine Hansberry and her family moved to a large house in a white neighborhood in 1938. In order to live there, her father had to fight a civil rights case in the Supreme Court against segregationists. Her experiences with racial discrimination fueled her …
Sophie Treadwell
A Research and Production Sourcebook
Av Jerry Dickey
Inbunden, 1997
898 kr
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Best remembered today for her acclaimed 1928 expressionist drama Machinal, based in part on the infamous murder trial of Ruth Snyder, Sophie Treadwell was an innovative American dramatist whose career spanned almost 60 years and nearly 40 plays. A relentless experimenter in dramatic subjects, …
George Kelly
A Research and Production Sourcebook
Inbunden, 1999
898 kr
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George Kelly was a pioneer realist in the American theater who not only enjoyed popular and critical success, but also remained true to his own moral vision of theater as an art form despite what he considered vulgar influences that catered to the popular taste. Drawing upon the canon of Kelly's …
Lillian Hellman
A Research and Production Sourcebook
Inbunden, 1998
558 kr
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Widely acclaimed as one of America's most distinguished female playwrights, Lillian Hellman made an entrance into a largely male-dominated field in 1934 with The Children's Hour, a drama that rocked the literary establishment with its frank treatment of lesbianism while calling attention to her …
John Guare
A Research and Production Sourcebook
Inbunden, 2002
949 kr
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Best known for his plays Six Degrees of Separation and The House of Blue Leaves, John Guare is a major figure in the contemporary American theater. Other notable works by Guare include Bosoms and Neglect, Landscape of the Body, and the Lydie Breeze series. His career began with off-off-Broadway …
