Author: Clyde Fitch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Clyde Fitch and His Letters
Author: Clyde Fitch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Clyde Fitch and the American Theatre
Author: Kevin Lane Dearinger
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611479487
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
Clyde Fitch (1865-1909) was the most successful and prolific dramatist of his time, producing nearly sixty plays in a twenty-year career. He wrote witty comedies, chaotic farces, homespun dramas, star vehicles, historical works, stark melodramas, and adaptations of European successes, but he was best known for his society plays, mirroring themes found in the novels of Henry James and Edith Wharton. In fact, Fitch collaborated with Wharton on a stage adaptation of her House ofMirth. He was also a gay man, although that gentler adjective was not the term of his time. He was bullied in school and baited by critics throughout his career for what they supposed of his private life. He responded with impressive strength and integrity. He was, at least for a short time, Oscar Wilde’s lover, and Wilde influenced his early plays, but Fitch’s study of Ibsen and other European dramatists inspired him to pursue the course of naturalism. As he became more successful, he took greater control of the staging and design of his plays. He was a complete man of the theatre and among the first names enrolled in New York’s theatrical hall of fame.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611479487
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
Clyde Fitch (1865-1909) was the most successful and prolific dramatist of his time, producing nearly sixty plays in a twenty-year career. He wrote witty comedies, chaotic farces, homespun dramas, star vehicles, historical works, stark melodramas, and adaptations of European successes, but he was best known for his society plays, mirroring themes found in the novels of Henry James and Edith Wharton. In fact, Fitch collaborated with Wharton on a stage adaptation of her House ofMirth. He was also a gay man, although that gentler adjective was not the term of his time. He was bullied in school and baited by critics throughout his career for what they supposed of his private life. He responded with impressive strength and integrity. He was, at least for a short time, Oscar Wilde’s lover, and Wilde influenced his early plays, but Fitch’s study of Ibsen and other European dramatists inspired him to pursue the course of naturalism. As he became more successful, he took greater control of the staging and design of his plays. He was a complete man of the theatre and among the first names enrolled in New York’s theatrical hall of fame.
Clyde Fitch and His Letters
Author: Montrose J. Moses
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781494113490
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1924 edition.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781494113490
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1924 edition.
Theatre Arts
Author: Sheldon Cheney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing arts
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing arts
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Theatre Arts Monthly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing arts
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing arts
Languages : en
Pages : 908
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Theatre Arts Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing arts
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing arts
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
Theatre Arts Magazine
Author: Sheldon Cheney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Staging Desire
Author: Kim Marra
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472067497
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Recovers the hidden history of theater professionals who transgressed the gendered expectations of their time
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472067497
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Recovers the hidden history of theater professionals who transgressed the gendered expectations of their time
The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde
Author: Neil McKenna
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786734922
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Oscar Wilde said of himself, "I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my work." Now, for the first time, Neil McKenna focuses on the tormented genius of Wilde's personal life, reproducing remarkable love letters and detailing Wilde's until-now unknown relationships with other men. McKenna has spent years researching Wilde's life, drawing on extensive new material, including never-before published poems as well as recently discovered trial statements made by male prostitutes and blackmailers about Wilde. McKenna provides explosive evidence of the political machinations behind Wilde's trials for sodomy, as well as his central role in the burgeoning gay world of Victorian London. Dazzlingly written and meticulously researched, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde fully charts Wilde's astonishing odyssey through London's sexual underworld and paints a frank and vivid psychological portrait of a troubled genius.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786734922
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Oscar Wilde said of himself, "I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my work." Now, for the first time, Neil McKenna focuses on the tormented genius of Wilde's personal life, reproducing remarkable love letters and detailing Wilde's until-now unknown relationships with other men. McKenna has spent years researching Wilde's life, drawing on extensive new material, including never-before published poems as well as recently discovered trial statements made by male prostitutes and blackmailers about Wilde. McKenna provides explosive evidence of the political machinations behind Wilde's trials for sodomy, as well as his central role in the burgeoning gay world of Victorian London. Dazzlingly written and meticulously researched, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde fully charts Wilde's astonishing odyssey through London's sexual underworld and paints a frank and vivid psychological portrait of a troubled genius.
The Progress of Drama, Through the Centuries
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description