Drama History Criticism category: 905 books
by Trish McTighe, Dr David Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This is the first full-length study to focus on the staging of Samuel Beckett's drama in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Beckett's relationship with his native land was a complex one, but the importance of his drama as a creative force both historically and in contemporary practice in Ireland...
by Amy Muse, Patrick Lonergan, Kevin J. Wetmore
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Sarah Ruhl is one of the most highly-acclaimed and frequently-produced American playwrights of the 21st century. Author of eighteen plays and the essay collection 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write, she has won a MacArthur "Genius†? Grant and the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award,...
A History of Modern Drama, Volume II
1960 - 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
A History of Modern Drama: Volume II explores a remarkable breadth of topics and analytical approaches to the dramatic works, authors, and transitional events and movements that shaped world drama from 1960 through to the dawn of the new millennium.
Features detailed analyses of plays and playwrights,...
Audio Drama Reviews: Three Years 100 Reviews
Audio Drama Review Collections, #1
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2015
Audio Drama Reviews was founded on the principle of helping small audio drama companies get the word out about their audio fiction works. Rather than simply promote them, founder Michael L. Bergonzi took a different route. Reviews.
Three Years and 100 reviews later, this ebook was released,...
Modern Drama
Defining the Field
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Theatre, like other subjects in the humanities, has recently undergone quintessential changes in theory, approach, and research. Modern Drama – a collection of twelve essays from leading theatre and drama scholars – investigates the contemporary meanings and the cultural and political resonances...
Southern Women Playwrights
New Essays in History and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
This timely collection addresses the neglected state of scholarship on southern women dramatists by bringing together the latest criticism on some of the most important playwrights of the 20th century.
Coeditors Robert McDonald and Linda Rohrer Paige attribute the neglect of southern women...
Three Uses of the Knife
On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
The purpose of theater, like magic, like religion . . . is to inspire cleansing awe. What makes good drama? And why does drama matter in an age that is awash in information and entertainment? David Mamet, one of our greatest living playwrights, tackles these questions with bracing directness and aphoristic...
The Contemporary Political Play
Rethinking Dramaturgical Structure
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
What does it mean for a play to be political in the 21st century? Does it require explicit engagement with events and situations with the aim of bringing about change or highlighting social wrongs? Is it purely a matter of content or is it also a matter of structure?
The Contemporary Political...
Theorising Performance
Greek Drama, Cultural History and Critical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
This exciting collection constitutes the first analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective. The last three decades have seen a remarkable revival of the performance of ancient Greek drama; some ancient plays - "Sophocles", "Oedipus",...
Beckett's Creatures
Art of Failure after the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
In the shadow of the Holocaust, Samuel Beckett captures humanity in ruins through his debased beings and a decomposing mode of writing that strives to 'fail better'. But what might it mean to be a 'creature' or 'creaturely' in Beckett's world? In the first full-length study of the concept of the creature...
by David Krasner
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Covering the period 1879 to 1959, and taking in everything from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is volume one of a two-part comprehensive examination of the plays, dramatists, and movements that comprise modern world drama.
Contains detailed analysis of plays and playwrights, connecting themes and...
Politics and Drama
Change, Challenge and Transition in Bernard Shaw and Orhan Asena
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2016
By comparing the literary works of two of the greatest playwrights of our time, Önder Cakirtas reveals the similarities and contrasts between their political views and the political backdrop of their respective nations.
In Britain, George Bernard Shaw, the leading British dramatist for the...
Beat Drama
Playwrights and Performances of the 'Howl’ Generation
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Readers and acolytes of the vital early 1950s-mid 1960s writers known as the Beat Generation tend to be familiar with the prose and poetry by the seminal authors of this period: Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane Di Prima, and many others. Yet all of these authors, as well as...
by Alexandra Coller
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Sixteenth-century Italy witnessed the rebirth of comedy, tragedy, and tragicomedy in the pastoral mode. Traditionally, we think of comedy and tragedy as remakes of ancient models, and tragicomedy alone as the invention of the moderns. Women, Rhetoric, and Drama in Early Modern Italy suggests that...