Casebooks on Modern Dramatists
Wendy Wasserstein: A Casebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Claudia Barnett
November 18, 2016
Wendy Wasserstein: A Casebook contains in-depth discussions of the playwright's major works, including her recent play 1 An American Daughter. Wasserstein's plays and essays are explored within diverse traditions, including Jewish storytelling, women's writing, and classical comedy. Critical ...
Terrence McNally: A Casebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Toby Silverman Zinman
August 26, 2016
This collection of essays and interviews is the first book about the drama of American playwright Terrence McNally; it examines his career to date (30-plus years), focusing particularly on the two plays for which McNally won Tony Awards for Best Play of 1995, Love! Valour! Compassion!, and Best ...
Arnold Wesker: A Casebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Reade W. Dornan
July 20, 2016
The only collection of essays on one of Britain's Angry Young Men, this book contains discussions of most of Wesker's published plays with an emphasis on the more recent works. Essays reevaluate the plays that made Wesker a household name in Britain (the Trilogy, The Kitchen , and Chips with ...
Marsha Norman: A Casebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Linda Ginter-Brown
July 15, 2016
This collection of ten original (and one reprinted) essays provides an in-depth examination of one of America's foremost contemporary playwrights. Established critics as well as younger scholars examine well-known works such as Getting Out, 'night, Mother, The Laundromat, and the adaptation of ...
Beth Henley: A Casebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Julia A. Fesmire
February 27, 2015
Beth Henley was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play for her first full-length play, Crimes of the Heart , yet there has been no book-length consideration of her body of work until now. This volume includes original essays that ...
Neil LaBute: A Casebook
1st Edition
By Gerald C. Wood
November 10, 2014
Neil LaBute: A Casebook is the first book to examine one of the most successful and controversial contemporary American playwrights and filmmakers. While he is most famous, and in some cases infamous, for his early films In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors, Labute is equally ...
Martin McDonagh: A Casebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Rankin Russell
April 24, 2013
This book represents the first collection of original critical material on Martin McDonagh, one of the most celebrated young playwrights of the last decade. Credited with reinvigorating contemporary Irish drama, his dark, despairing comedies have been performed extensively both on Broadway and in ...
Contemporary African American Women Playwrights: A Casebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip C. Kolin
September 18, 2012
'The impressive array of scholars gathered in this collection, all experts in the field, read the plays with nuance and situate them deftly within their cultural and historical contexts. Scholars of contemporary theater and drama and of African American literature will find value in this engaging ...
Suzan-Lori Parks: A Casebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Kevin J. Wetmore Jr, Alycia Smith-Howard
September 18, 2012
Suzan-Lori Parks confirmed herself as one of the most exciting and successful playwrights of her generation when her work Topdog/Underdog was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, making her the only African American woman to win the award. Despite the cultural weight of this achievement, Parks ...
A.R. Gurney
1st Edition
Edited
By Arvid F. Sponberg
October 14, 2003
This is the first full-length study devoted to the art of A.R. Gurney, a major contemporary American playwright who has written over thirty plays, including Love Letters. This volume brings together original interviews with Gurney and four actors and a director who have worked closely with him, as ...
Edward Albee: A Casebook
1st Edition
By Bruce Mann
December 20, 2002
From the "angry young man" who wrote Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in 1962, determined to expose the emptiness of American experience to Tiny Alice which reveals his indebtedness to Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco's Theatre of the Absurd, Edward Albee's varied work makes it difficult to label ...
Joe Orton: A Casebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Francesca Coppa
October 25, 2002
While writers, dramatists and film-makers have already found inspiration in Orton's colourful life story, this Casebook comprises the first collection of scholarly criticism to investigate the works, life and legacy of the controversial playwright....