Author: Henry Hewes
Publisher: Laurel Press
ISBN: 9780440324904
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
The 6 plays in this collection include The Skin of Our Teeth, All My Sons, and Member of the Wedding.
Famous American Plays of the 1940s
Author: Henry Hewes
Publisher: Laurel Press
ISBN: 9780440324904
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
The 6 plays in this collection include The Skin of Our Teeth, All My Sons, and Member of the Wedding.
Publisher: Laurel Press
ISBN: 9780440324904
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
The 6 plays in this collection include The Skin of Our Teeth, All My Sons, and Member of the Wedding.
Famous Americans
Author: Liza Schafer
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780590494748
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Ben Franklin...Harriet Tubman...Lewis and Clark.... Share their inspiring stories through these fact-based, original plays. Includes background information, discussion questions, extension activities, and literature links. For use with Grades 4-8.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780590494748
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Ben Franklin...Harriet Tubman...Lewis and Clark.... Share their inspiring stories through these fact-based, original plays. Includes background information, discussion questions, extension activities, and literature links. For use with Grades 4-8.
Folger Library, Two Decades of Growth
Author: Louis B. Wright
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780918016553
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780918016553
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Five Plays; Comedies and Tragicomedies
Author: Federico GarcĂa Lorca
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200905
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Two additional comedies, published here in book form in English for the first time, are The Billy-Club Puppets -- a guignol-type farce with delicate wit; and The Butterfly's Evil Spell, an "insect comedy" about a beetle-poet who aspires to be a butterfly.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200905
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Two additional comedies, published here in book form in English for the first time, are The Billy-Club Puppets -- a guignol-type farce with delicate wit; and The Butterfly's Evil Spell, an "insect comedy" about a beetle-poet who aspires to be a butterfly.
Popular Plays by Women in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century
Author: Tanya M. Caldwell
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770482830
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This anthology offers a selection of popular dramatic works by female playwrights from Aphra Behn in the 1670s through Hannah Cowley in the later eighteenth century. These plays were successful as plays of their time, not just as plays by women, together providing evidence that women dramatists often managed better than their male counterparts to please diverse audiences, who were notoriously fickle as well as predisposed to oppose them. Accessible to both graduates and undergraduates, Popular Plays by Women shows how these playwrights captured audiences through wit, social awareness, and dramatic dexterity. As well as including the prologues and epilogues of the four plays presented, this anthology provides additional materials in which female playwrights discuss the prejudices and special difficulties they face.
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770482830
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This anthology offers a selection of popular dramatic works by female playwrights from Aphra Behn in the 1670s through Hannah Cowley in the later eighteenth century. These plays were successful as plays of their time, not just as plays by women, together providing evidence that women dramatists often managed better than their male counterparts to please diverse audiences, who were notoriously fickle as well as predisposed to oppose them. Accessible to both graduates and undergraduates, Popular Plays by Women shows how these playwrights captured audiences through wit, social awareness, and dramatic dexterity. As well as including the prologues and epilogues of the four plays presented, this anthology provides additional materials in which female playwrights discuss the prejudices and special difficulties they face.
Famous American Plays of the 1920s
Author: Kenneth Macgowan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The Moon of the Caribees, What Price Glory, They Knew What They Wanted, Porgy, Street Scene, Holiday.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The Moon of the Caribees, What Price Glory, They Knew What They Wanted, Porgy, Street Scene, Holiday.
Sixteen Famous American Plays
Author: B. A. CERF
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1049
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1049
Book Description
Oberammergau
Author: James Shapiro
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375708529
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Bavarian village of Oberammergau has staged the trial, crucifixion, and resurrection of Christ nearly every decade since 1634. Each production of the Passion Play attracts hundreds of thousands, many drawn by the spiritual benefits it promises. Yet Hitler called it a convincing portrayal of the menace of Jewry, and in 1970 a group of international luminaries boycotted the play for its anti-Semitism. As the production for the year 2000 drew near, James Shapiro was there to document the newest wave of obstacles that faced the determined Bavarian villagers. Erudite and judicious, Oberammergau is a fascinating and important look at the unpredictable and sometimes tragic relationship between art and society, belief and tolerance, religion and politics.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375708529
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Bavarian village of Oberammergau has staged the trial, crucifixion, and resurrection of Christ nearly every decade since 1634. Each production of the Passion Play attracts hundreds of thousands, many drawn by the spiritual benefits it promises. Yet Hitler called it a convincing portrayal of the menace of Jewry, and in 1970 a group of international luminaries boycotted the play for its anti-Semitism. As the production for the year 2000 drew near, James Shapiro was there to document the newest wave of obstacles that faced the determined Bavarian villagers. Erudite and judicious, Oberammergau is a fascinating and important look at the unpredictable and sometimes tragic relationship between art and society, belief and tolerance, religion and politics.
Famous American Plays of the 1960s
Author: Harold Clurman
Publisher: Laurel
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Wants The Bronx / Israel Horovitz, The Boys In The Band / Mart Crowley.
Publisher: Laurel
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Wants The Bronx / Israel Horovitz, The Boys In The Band / Mart Crowley.
Seven Famous Greek Plays
Author: Whitney J. Oates
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780394701257
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
"In the interval between the epics of Homer...and the age of the three great tragic poets, thinkers began to explore the various phenomena of the external world and came to understand many aspects of nature which had hitherto been shrouded in complete mystery. The creative literary activity of this epoch likewise betokens on the part of the Greeks an increasingly higher level of self-understanding and self-consciousness, in the best sense of the word. At this time appeared a group of lyric poets, who had looked deeply within their own natures, and through the vehicle of their poetry, made abundantly evident how thoroughly they understood the essential character of man's inner being. In Greek tragedy as we now have it we meet a fully developed dramatic form....The influence of tragedy on classic comedy is evident in the increasing preoccupation with subjects that are utopian or timeless, [while] the traditional satire on contemporary events and personages recedes more and more into the background." -- from the Introduction, by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780394701257
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
"In the interval between the epics of Homer...and the age of the three great tragic poets, thinkers began to explore the various phenomena of the external world and came to understand many aspects of nature which had hitherto been shrouded in complete mystery. The creative literary activity of this epoch likewise betokens on the part of the Greeks an increasingly higher level of self-understanding and self-consciousness, in the best sense of the word. At this time appeared a group of lyric poets, who had looked deeply within their own natures, and through the vehicle of their poetry, made abundantly evident how thoroughly they understood the essential character of man's inner being. In Greek tragedy as we now have it we meet a fully developed dramatic form....The influence of tragedy on classic comedy is evident in the increasing preoccupation with subjects that are utopian or timeless, [while] the traditional satire on contemporary events and personages recedes more and more into the background." -- from the Introduction, by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr.