Author: Alan Brien
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
New English Dramatists
Author: Alan Brien
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Etherege and Wycherley
Author: Barbara Kachur
Publisher: Red Globe Press
ISBN: 0333575407
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Examining the major plays of George Etherege and William Wycherley within the context of the cultural and historical changes that marked the early years of Charles II's reign, this book addresses various issues such as marriage, manners, heroism and sovereignty that preoccupied late seventeenth-century Britain. In addition to exploring the plays as cultural and historical texts, this study offers performance histories that illuminate ways in which twentieth-century directors have altered and interpreted these plays to make them accessible to modern audiences.
Publisher: Red Globe Press
ISBN: 0333575407
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Examining the major plays of George Etherege and William Wycherley within the context of the cultural and historical changes that marked the early years of Charles II's reign, this book addresses various issues such as marriage, manners, heroism and sovereignty that preoccupied late seventeenth-century Britain. In addition to exploring the plays as cultural and historical texts, this study offers performance histories that illuminate ways in which twentieth-century directors have altered and interpreted these plays to make them accessible to modern audiences.
Modern Dramatists
Author: Kimball King
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136521194
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136521194
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
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.
English Drama, 1660-1700
Author: Derek Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
This extremely readable volume analyses many individual texts, often in detail and for the first time, and also places them within the whole range of contemporary theatrical output, with its diversity of outlook and constant shifts in fashion and subject.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
This extremely readable volume analyses many individual texts, often in detail and for the first time, and also places them within the whole range of contemporary theatrical output, with its diversity of outlook and constant shifts in fashion and subject.
English Drama Since 1940
Author: David Ian Rabey
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317875389
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
English Drama Since 1940 considers the bids of successive post-war dramatists to find language and images of remorseless disclosure, appropriate to the public manifestation of sensed crisis and the interrogation of the ideal of renewal. This book introduces the period and its discourse whilst redefining them, to give proper consideration to developments of themes, styles, concerns and contexts from the 80s to the present. The book offers succinct and analytical introductions to the work of 60 dramatists, whilst arguing for (re)appraisal of many dates critical perspectives, in order to stimulate further argument in the field.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317875389
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
English Drama Since 1940 considers the bids of successive post-war dramatists to find language and images of remorseless disclosure, appropriate to the public manifestation of sensed crisis and the interrogation of the ideal of renewal. This book introduces the period and its discourse whilst redefining them, to give proper consideration to developments of themes, styles, concerns and contexts from the 80s to the present. The book offers succinct and analytical introductions to the work of 60 dramatists, whilst arguing for (re)appraisal of many dates critical perspectives, in order to stimulate further argument in the field.
Fifty Modern and Contemporary Dramatists
Author: Maggie B. Gale
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317596226
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Fifty Modern and Contemporary and Dramatists is a critical introduction to the work of some of the most important and influential playwrights from the 1950s to the present day. The figures chosen are among the most widely studied by students of drama, theatre and literature and include such celebrated writers as: • Samuel Beckett • Caryl Churchill • Anna Deavere Smith • Jean Genet • Sarah Kane • Heiner Müller • Arthur Miller • Harold Pinter • Sam Shephard Each short essay is written by one of an international team of academic experts and offers a detailed analysis of the playwright’s key works and career. The introduction provides an historical and theatrical context to the volume, which provides an invaluable overview of modern and contemporary drama.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317596226
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Fifty Modern and Contemporary and Dramatists is a critical introduction to the work of some of the most important and influential playwrights from the 1950s to the present day. The figures chosen are among the most widely studied by students of drama, theatre and literature and include such celebrated writers as: • Samuel Beckett • Caryl Churchill • Anna Deavere Smith • Jean Genet • Sarah Kane • Heiner Müller • Arthur Miller • Harold Pinter • Sam Shephard Each short essay is written by one of an international team of academic experts and offers a detailed analysis of the playwright’s key works and career. The introduction provides an historical and theatrical context to the volume, which provides an invaluable overview of modern and contemporary drama.
Recent English Dramatists
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Ben Jonson, Renaissance Dramatist
Author: Sean McEvoy
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748629912
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This new guide to the English renaissance's most erudite and yet most street-wise dramatist strongly asserts the theatrical brilliance of his greatest plays in performance, then and now.The book integrates all of Jonson's major plays into the milieu of the turbulent years which produced them, and analyses the way each work examines the issues and challenges of those years: money, power, sex, crime, identity, gender, the theatre itself. It offers a lucid guide to the competing critical views of a playwright who is far more than the obverse of his friend and rival William Shakespeare, and it explains in detail how the undoubted power and energy of these plays in modern performance should be the touchstone of their quality to both critic and reader. The plays discussed include the early Comedies, the Roman Tragedies (Sejanus and Catiline), Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair and The Devil is an Ass.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748629912
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This new guide to the English renaissance's most erudite and yet most street-wise dramatist strongly asserts the theatrical brilliance of his greatest plays in performance, then and now.The book integrates all of Jonson's major plays into the milieu of the turbulent years which produced them, and analyses the way each work examines the issues and challenges of those years: money, power, sex, crime, identity, gender, the theatre itself. It offers a lucid guide to the competing critical views of a playwright who is far more than the obverse of his friend and rival William Shakespeare, and it explains in detail how the undoubted power and energy of these plays in modern performance should be the touchstone of their quality to both critic and reader. The plays discussed include the early Comedies, the Roman Tragedies (Sejanus and Catiline), Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair and The Devil is an Ass.
Dramatists and Dramas
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 0791093743
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Presents a compilation of Bloom's introductions to the Modern critical views and Modern critical interpretations series of books, focusing on drama and dramatists.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 0791093743
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Presents a compilation of Bloom's introductions to the Modern critical views and Modern critical interpretations series of books, focusing on drama and dramatists.
Making Plays
Author: D. Wu
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349653055
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Making Plays explores great drama of the last two decades through the eyes of those who write it, and those who direct it. It is at once a masterclass on theatrical technique and a unique insight into the ways in which great dramatists of our time have reacted to a rapidly changing world. In this book Duncan Wu talks to Michael Attenborough, Alan Bennett, Michael Blakemore, Howard Brenton, David Edgar, Sir Richard Eyre, Michael Frayn, Sir David Hare, Nicholas Hytner, and Max Stafford-Clark.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349653055
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Making Plays explores great drama of the last two decades through the eyes of those who write it, and those who direct it. It is at once a masterclass on theatrical technique and a unique insight into the ways in which great dramatists of our time have reacted to a rapidly changing world. In this book Duncan Wu talks to Michael Attenborough, Alan Bennett, Michael Blakemore, Howard Brenton, David Edgar, Sir Richard Eyre, Michael Frayn, Sir David Hare, Nicholas Hytner, and Max Stafford-Clark.