Studies in Modern Drama – serie
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26 produkter
Captive Audience
Prison and Captivity in Contemporary Theatre
Häftad, 2014
397 kr
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The first collection on this important topic, Captive Audience examines the social, gendered, ethnic, and cultural problems of incarceration as explored in contemporary theatre. Beginning with an essay by Harold Pinter, the original contributions discuss work including Harold Pinter's screenplays …
Peering Behind the Curtain
Disability, Illness, and the Extraordinary Body in Contemporary Theatre
Av Kimball King, Tom Fahy
Inbunden, 2002
2887 kr
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This volume addresses disability in theater, and features all new work, including critical essays, interviews, personal essays, and an original play. It fills a gap in scholarship while promoting the profile of disability in theater. Peering Behind the Curtain examines the issues surrounding …
Captive Audience
Prison and Captivity in Contemporary Theatre
Inbunden, 2003
787 kr
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The first collection on this important topic, Captive Audience examines the social, gendered, ethnic, and cultural problems of incarceration as explored in contemporary theatre. Beginning with an essay by Harold Pinter, the original contributions discuss work including Harold Pinter's screenplays …
Art of Crime
The Plays and Film of Harold Pinter and David Mamet
Av Leslie Kane
Inbunden, 2004
2887 kr
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This collection of 15 original essays, assembled by renowned Mamet and Pinter scholar Leslie Kane, examines the pervasiveness of crime and criminality in the plays and screenplays of two of the most influential contemporary dramatists. The contributors generally focus on one or more works by a …
Mama Dada
Gertrude Stein's Avant-Garde Theatre
Inbunden, 2003
2887 kr
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Mama Dada is the first book to examine Gertrude Stein's drama within the history of the theatrical and cinematic avant-gardes. Since the publication of Stein's major writings by the Library of America in 1998, interest in her dramatic writing has escalated, particularly in American avant-garde …
Mama Dada
Gertrude Stein's Avant-Garde Theatre
Häftad, 2005
744 kr
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Mama Dada is the first book to examine Gertrude Stein's drama within the history of the theatrical and cinematic avant-gardes. Since the publication of Stein's major writings by the Library of America in 1998, interest in her dramatic writing has escalated, particularly in American avant-garde …
New Theatre Vistas
Modern Movements in International Literature
Inbunden, 1995
1566 kr
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First Published in 1996. Part of a series of ‘Studies in Modern Drama’, Volume 7 This volume Studies in Modern Drama collects essays on contemporary theatre which reveal the changing face of the world, as well as challenges to the boundaries of traditional stage production. Authors examine familiar …
David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross
Text and Performance
Av Leslie Kane
Inbunden, 1996
2887 kr
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The 12 original and two classic essays offer a dialectic on performance and structure, and substantially advance our knowledge of this seminal playwright. The commentaries examine feminism, pernicious nostalgia, ethnicity, the mythological land motif, the discourse of anxiety, gendered language, …
John Osborne
Vituperative Artist
Av Luc Gilleman
Inbunden, 2001
2887 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 …
Modern Dramatists
A Casebook of Major British, Irish, and American Playwrights
Av Kimball King
Inbunden, 2001
2887 kr
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This comprehensive collection gathers critical essays on the major works of the foremost American and British playwrights of the 20th century, written by leading figures in drama/performance studies.
Black Women Playwrights
Visions on the American Stage
Av Carol P. Marsh-Lockett, Carol P. Marsh-Lockett
Inbunden, 1998
3643 kr
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This collection of critical essays on plays by African American female playwrights from the post-reconstruction period to the present provides thematic analyses of plays by major and less widely known African American women playwrights The contributors examine the plays as vehicles of public …
Hollywood on Stage
Playwrights Evaluate the Culture Industry
Inbunden, 1997
789 kr
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Playwrights have been depicting Hollywood as a cultural desert and an industry of profit-driven philistines ever since the early days of the movies. This collection of original essays covers the period from the 1920s to the present but concentrates on such contempory playwrights as David Mamet, Sam …
Reading Stephen Sondheim
A Collection of Critical Essays
Inbunden, 1999
2887 kr
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Stephen Sondheim is arguably the most important writer for the American musical stage today, the equivalent in his field of Miller, Albee, O'Neill, and Williams. Yet he has rarely been treated seriously within the academy. Reading Stephen Sondheim: A Collection of Critical Essays is an attempt to …
Alan Bennett
A Critical Introduction
Inbunden, 2001
2665 kr
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Alan Bennett is perhaps best known in the UK for the BBC production of his Talking Heads TV plays, while the rest of the world may recognize him for the film adaptation of his play, The Madness of King George. O'Mealy points out that Bennett is a social critic strongly influenced by Beckett and …
David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross
Text and Performance
Av Leslie Kane
Häftad, 1999
797 kr
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The 12 original and two classic essays offer a dialectic on performance and structure, and substantially advance our knowledge of this seminal playwright. The commentaries examine feminism, pernicious nostalgia, ethnicity, the mythological land motif, the discourse of anxiety, gendered language, …
Reading Stephen Sondheim
A Collection of Critical Essays
Häftad, 1999
654 kr
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Stephen Sondheim is arguably the most important writer for the American musical stage today, the equivalent in his field of Miller, Albee, O'Neill, and Williams. Yet he has rarely been treated seriously within the academy. Reading Stephen Sondheim: A Collection of Critical Essays is an attempt to …
Playwright's Muse
Inbunden, 2002
2887 kr
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August Wilson penned his first play after seeing a man shot to death. Horton Foote began writing plays to create parts for himself as an actor. Edward Albee faced commercial pressures to modify his scripts-and resisted. After Wit, Margaret Edson swore off playwriting altogether and decided to keep …
Playwright's Muse
Häftad, 2002
730 kr
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August Wilson penned his first play after seeing a man shot to death. Horton Foote began writing plays to create parts for himself as an actor. Edward Albee faced commercial pressures to modify his scripts-and resisted. After Wit, Margaret Edson swore off playwriting altogether and decided to keep …
Pinter Ethic
The Erotic Aesthetic
Häftad, 2000
923 kr
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The only comprehensive guide to the plays of one of the world's greatest yet most puzzling contemporary dramatists, The Pinter Ethic penetrates the mystery of Harold Pinter's work with compelling and authoritative insights that locate and disclose the primal power of his drama in his characters' …
Modern Dramatists
A Casebook of Major British, Irish, and American Playwrights
Av Kimball King
Häftad, 2001
730 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This comprehensive collection gathers critical essays on the major works of the foremost American and British playwrights of the 20th century, written by leading figures in drama/performance studies.
John Osborne
Vituperative Artist
Av Luc Gilleman
Häftad, 2015
816 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 …
Hollywood on Stage
Playwrights Evaluate the Culture Industry
Häftad, 2015
426 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Playwrights have been depicting Hollywood as a cultural desert and an industry of profit-driven philistines ever since the early days of the movies. This collection of original essays covers the period from the 1920s to the present but concentrates on such contempory playwrights as David Mamet, Sam …
Black Women Playwrights
Visions on the American Stage
Av Carol P. Marsh-Lockett, Carol P. Marsh-Lockett
Häftad, 2017
928 kr
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This collection of critical essays on plays by African American female playwrights from the post-reconstruction period to the present provides thematic analyses of plays by major and less widely known African American women playwrights The contributors examine the plays as vehicles of public …
Art of Crime
The Plays and Film of Harold Pinter and David Mamet
Av Leslie Kane
Häftad, 2016
913 kr
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This collection of 15 original essays, assembled by renowned Mamet and Pinter scholar Leslie Kane, examines the pervasiveness of crime and criminality in the plays and screenplays of two of the most influential contemporary dramatists. The contributors generally focus on one or more works by a …
Peering Behind the Curtain
Disability, Illness, and the Extraordinary Body in Contemporary Theatre
Av Kimball King, Tom Fahy
Häftad, 2016
946 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This volume addresses disability in theater, and features all new work, including critical essays, interviews, personal essays, and an original play. It fills a gap in scholarship while promoting the profile of disability in theater. Peering Behind the Curtain examines the issues surrounding …
Pinter Ethic
The Erotic Aesthetic
Inbunden, 2000
1434 kr
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The only comprehensive guide to the plays of one of the world's greatest yet most puzzling contemporary dramatists, The Pinter Ethic penetrates the mystery of Harold Pinter's work with compelling and authoritative insights that locate and disclose the primal power of his drama in his characters' …
