Author: Laura Michiels
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476666466
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Tennessee Williams' characters set the stage for their own dramas. Blanche DuBois (A Streetcar Named Desire), arrived at her sister's apartment with an entire trunk of costumes and props. Amanda Wingfield (The Glass Menagerie) directed her son on how to eat and tries to make her daughter act like a Southern Belle. This book argues for the persistence of one metatheatrical strategy running throughout Williams' entire oeuvre: each play stages the process through which it came into being--and this process consists of a variation on repetition combined with transformation. Each chapter takes a detailed reading of one play and its variation on repetition and transformation. Specific topics include reproduction in Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), mediation in Something Cloudy, Something Clear (1981), and how the playwright frequently recycled previous works of art, including his own.
Author: Rebecca Clode
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000600661
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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This book offers the first major discussion of metatheatre in Australian drama of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It highlights metatheatre’s capacity to illuminate the wider social, cultural, and artistic contexts in which plays have been produced. Drawing from existing scholarly arguments about the value of considering metatheatre holistically, this book deploys a range of critical approaches, combining textual and production analysis, archival research, interviews, and reflections gained from observing rehearsals. Focusing on four plays and their Australian productions, the book uses these examples to showcase how metatheatre has been utilised to generate powerful elements of critique, particularly of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations. It highlights metatheatre’s vital place in Australian dramatic and theatrical history and connects this Australian tradition to wider concepts in the development of contemporary theatre. This illuminating text will be of interest to students and scholars of Australian theatre (historic and contemporary) as well as those researching and studying drama and theatre studies more broadly.
Author: Bruce A. Mcconachie
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587294478
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 365
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1. A theater of containment liberalism -- 2. Empty boys, queer others, and consumerism -- 3. Family circles, racial others, and suburbanization -- 4. Fragmented heroes, female others, and the bomb.
Author: Mary Ann Frese Witt
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611475384
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 203
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Metatheater and Modernity: Baroque and Neobaroque is the first work to link the study of metatheater with the concepts of baroque and neobaroque. Arguing that the onset of European modernity in the early seventeenth century and both the modernist and the postmodernist periods of the twentieth century witnessed a flourishing of the phenomenon of theater that reflects on itself as theater, the author reexamines the concepts of metatheater, baroque, and neobaroque through a pairing and close analysis of seventeenth and twentieth century plays. The comparisons include Jean Rotrou's The True Saint Genesius with Jean-Paul Sartre's Kean and Jean Genet's The Blacks; Pierre Corneille's L'Illusion comique with Tony Kushner's The Illusion; Gian Lorenzo Bernini's The Impresario with Luigi Pirandello's theater-in-theater trilogy; Shakespeare's Hamlet with Pirandello's Henry IV and Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; Moli re's Impromptu de Versailles with "impromptus" by Jean Cocteau, Jean Giraudoux, and Eug ne Ionesco. Metatheater and Modernity also examines the role of technology in the creating and breaking of illusions in both centuries. In contrast to previous work on metatheater, it emphasizes the metatheatrical role of comedy. Metatheater, the author concludes, is both performance and performative: it accomplishes a perceptual transformation in its audience both by defending theater and exposing the illusory quality of the world outside.
Author: Robert Gross
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135673616
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Tennessee Williams' plays are performed around the world, and are staples of the standard American repertory. His famous portrayals of women engage feminist critics, and as America's leading gay playwright from the repressive postwar period, through Stonewall, to the growth of gay liberation, he represents an important and controversial figure for queer theorists. Gross and his contributors have included all of his plays, a chronology, introduction and bibliography.
Author: Joseph T. Shipley
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040032133
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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First published in 1970, Dictionary of World Literary Terms brings together in one volume authoritative definitions of literary terms, forms and techniques, figures of speech and detailed notes on the history and development of the literatures and literary movements of the world. Arranged in alphabetical order for easy use, the entries range from anti-hero to zeugma, from classicism to the New Criticism, and from esoteric or archaic terms to contemporary theatre and poetry. This book will be indispensable for writers, students, scholars, researchers, librarians and everyone who has a literary curiosity.
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214353
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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A play produced only twice in the 1940s and now published for the first time reveals that Tennessee Williams anticipated the themes of Star Trek by decades.
Author: Brenda Murphy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Volume of literary criticism concerning Tennessee Williams' novel A streetcar named Desire.
Author: Philip C. Kolin
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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"The author of A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof drew on personal and family drama for material. Essays examine how Williams's confessional style influenced Inge, Mamet, Kushner, Lori-Parks and others. There is a special study of African-American theater. Features interview with Albee on Williams' influence"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Anne Fleche
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817308385
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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The book focuses on two major writers of the 1930s and 1940s - Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams - one whose writing career was just ending and the other whose career was just beginning.
