Drama History list 22

Beckett's Art of Salvage

Writing and Material Imagination, 1932–1987

by Julie Bates
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017

This innovative exploration of the recurring use of particular objects in Samuel Beckett's work is the first study of the material imagination of any single modern author. Across five decades of aesthetic and formal experimentation in fiction, drama, poetry and film, Beckett made substantial use of...

The Play’S the Thing

The Theatrical Collaboration of Clark Bowlen and Kathleen Keena, 1988–2012

by Kathleen Keena
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015

The Play's the Thing: The Theatrical Collaboration of Clark Bowlen and Kathleen Keena, 1988-2012 Kathleen Keena iUniverse, 187 pages, (paperback) $17.95, 978-1-4917-6151-9 (Reviewed: June 2015) The Play's the Thing is Kathleen Keena's theater diary starting at Manchester Community College...

Pour Koltès

by François Bon
Language: French
Release Date: September 8, 2014

Bernard-Marie Koltès meurt en avril 1989, après 11 ans d'écriture très dense, qui bouleversera les formes et le statut du théâtre, y introduisant la ville, la nuit, la dérive des êtres, dans une langue à la fois chargée de tous les symboles d'une époque et ses marges, et d'un classicisme...

Electra and the Empty Urn

Metatheater and Role Playing in Sophocles

by Mark Ringer
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000

Metatheater, or "theater within theater," is a critical approach often used in studies of Shakespearian or modern drama. Breaking new ground in the study of ancient Greek tragedy, Mark Ringer applies the concept of metatheatricality to the work of Sophocles. His innovative analysis sheds...

The Playboy of the Western World

by Christopher Collins
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016

‘I’m thinking this night wasn’t I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in years gone by.’ – Christy Mahon On the first night of J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World (1907) the audience began protesting in the theatre; by the third night the protests had spilled onto...

Eugene O'Neill's Creative Struggle

The Decisive Decade, 1924–1933

by Doris Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 1992

In Eugene O'Neill's Creative Struggle, Doris Alexander gives us a new kind of inside biography that begins where the others leave off. It follows O'Neill through the door into his writing room to give a blow-by-blow account of how he fought out in his plays his great life battles—love against hate,...

Showing Off, Showing Up

Studies of Hype, Heightened Performance, and Cultural Power

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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017

The interdisciplinary essays in Showing Off, Showing Up examine acts of showing, a particular species of performance that relies on competition and judgment, active spectatorship, embodied excess, and exposure of core values and hidden truths. Acts of showing highlight those dimensions of performance...

Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature

A Philosophical Perspective

by Richard Gaskin
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018

This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy. Richard Gaskin argues that tragic literature seeks to offer moral and linguistic redress (compensation) for suffering. Moral redress involves the balancing...