Author: Donald Margulies
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559367482
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 97
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In Collected Stories, playwright Donald Margulies explores the vexed emotional and legal question of a writer's right to create art from the biographical material of another person's life--particularly when that other person is also a writer. Meditating upon the recent, real-life conflict between poet Stephen Spender and novelist David Leavitt, Margulies has created two of the most vivid and moving fictional characters of his career: Ruth Steiner, an aging, highly regarded author who never wrote about her youthful affair with real-life poet Delmore Schwartz, and Debra Messing, a student of Steiner's who, after publishing a much-praised first short-story collection under Steiner's direction, follows up with a novel that draws upon the Schwartz affair.
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811220818
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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This definitive collection establishes Williams as a major American fiction writer of the twentieth century. Tennessee Williams’ Collected Stories combines the four short-story volumes published during Williams’ lifetime with previously unpublished or uncollected stories. Arranged chronologically, the forty-nine stories, when taken together with the memoir of his father that serves as a preface, not only establish Williams as a major American fiction writer of the twentieth century, but also, in Gore Vidal’s view, constitute the real autobiography of Williams’ "art and inner life."
Author: Aurobindo Ghose
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788170580409
Category : Perseus (Greek mythology)
Languages : en
Pages : 175
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A full length dramatic projection based on the ancient Greek legend of Perseus, symbolising the suffering & aspiration of a freedom-loving land.
Author: Eugene O'Neill
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030010779X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
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O'Neill's themes and concerns find expression in his one-act plays which are the dramatic equivalent of short stories. Here are nine one-act plays that span the playwright's career.
Author: Vijay Tendulkar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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This book is a collection of plays by one of India's best-known playwrights, and offers for the first time his best known plays published previously by OUP, together in a single volume. The Introduction is by Samik Bandhopadhya, and the plays included are Kamala, Silence! The Court is in Session, Sakharam Binder, The Vultures, Encounter in Umbugland, Kanyadaan, A Friend's Story and Ghashiram Kotwal.
Author: Carla Kaplan, Ph.D.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307430367
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 906
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“ I mean to live and die by my own mind,” Zora Neale Hurston told the writer Countee Cullen. Arriving in Harlem in 1925 with little more than a dollar to her name, Hurston rose to become one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance, only to die in obscurity. Not until the 1970s was she rediscovered by Alice Walker and other admirers. Although Hurston has entered the pantheon as one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century, the true nature of her personality has proven elusive. Now, a brilliant, complicated and utterly arresting woman emerges from this landmark book. Carla Kaplan, a noted Hurston scholar, has found hundreds of revealing, previously unpublished letters for this definitive collection; she also provides extensive and illuminating commentary on Hurston’s life and work, as well as an annotated glossary of the organizations and personalities that were important to it. From her enrollment at Baltimore’s Morgan Academy in 1917, to correspondence with Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Langston Hughes, Dorothy West and Alain Locke, to a final query letter to her publishers in 1959, Hurston’s spirited correspondence offers an invaluable portrait of a remarkable, irrepressible talent.
Author: Wole Soyinka
Publisher: London ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192811646
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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`The Lion and the Jewel alone is enough to establish Nigeria as the most fertile new source of English-speaking drama since Synge's discovery of the Western Isles.' The Times The ironic development and consequences of `progress' may be traced through both the themes and the tone of the works included in this second volume of Wole Soyinka's plays. The Lion and the Jewel shows an ineffectual assault on past tradition soundly defeated. In Kongi's Harvest, however, the pretensions of Kongi's regime are also fatal. The denouement points the way forward. The two Brother Jero plays pursue that way, the comic `propheteering' of the earlier play giving way to the sardonic reality of Jero's Metamorphosis. Madmen and Specialists, Soyinka's most pessimistic play, concerns the physical, mental, and moral destruction of modern civil war.
Author: Herb Gardner
Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Here, gathered for the first time, is the highly lauded work of one of America's most beloved playwrights. Introductory essays to each work by some of theatre's most distinguished artists give historical and critical perspective to Gardner's achievement. Includes: A THOUSAND CLOWNS * THE GOODBYE PEOPLE * THIEVES * I'M NOT RAPPAPORT * CONVERSATIONS WITH MY FATHER * WHO IS HARRY KELLERMAN AND WHY IS HE SAYING THOSE TERRIBLE THINGS ABOUT ME'.
Author: Bertolt Brecht
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472577531
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345
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Everyone knows that Bertolt Brecht was one of the great 20th-century innovators in theatre - the literary-theatrical equivalent of a Picasso or Stravinsky - and Germany's greatest poet of the last century, but the playwright was also a dazzling writer of stories. Storytelling permeated his art as a dramatist; fundamentally in his plays he was a storyteller. This volume collects the complete short stories written by Brecht, including the prize-winning 'The Monster', and the fragmentary memoir ghost-written by Brecht, 'Life Story of the boxer Samson-Körner'. Brecht scholar Marc Silberman provides an introduction and editorial notes. Fans of Brecht will find in the 37 stories assembled here the same directness, lack of affectation, and wry humour that characterise his plays. Every lover of short stories will discover an unexpected trove of pleasure in this "mine for short-story addicts" (Observer).
Author: Sri Aurobindo
Publisher: Pondicherry [India] : Sri Aurobindo Ashram
ISBN: 9788170580898
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
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Two volumes of dramas on heroism and romance set in India, Persia, Norway, and other places. Releasing his poetic imagination, Sri Aurobindo has created timeless tales of courage, beauty and love. Contents: Five full-length plays; Perseus the Deliverer, Vasavadutta, Rodogune, Eric, the Viziers of Bassora; Five incomplete plays, four short stories. Subject: Literature.
