Casebooks on Modern Dramatists
Pinter at 70: A Casebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Lois Gordon
August 31, 2001
This comprehensive and authoritative casebook includes cornerstone essays on Pinter's creative process, his politics, film adaptations, and acting career. It also includes a collection of photos found nowhere else that document Pinter's "golden time"--his early acting days in Ireland--, a ...
August Wilson: A Casebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Marilyn Elkins
March 01, 2000
The only African American playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize twice, Wilson has yet to receive the critical attention that he merits. With 12 original essays, this volume provides a thorough introduction to his body of work....
Stephen Sondheim: A Casebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Joanne Gordon
November 01, 1999
Stephen Sondheim is an artist with many contradictory facets: he is an avant-garde composer and lyricist working in the populist art form, an apparently dry and acerbic critic who captures all the ambivalent pain of passion, an intellectual whose work contains some of the funniest bawdy lines on...
Horton Foote: A Casebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Gerald C. Wood
November 01, 1997
This study is the first general critical introduction to the writing of Horton Foote, recipient of two Academy Awards and the Pulitzer Prize. These original essays survey Foote's career, his work for theater, television, and film, with analysis of Foote's major themes and characteristic style in ...
Neil Simon: A Casebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Gary Konas
January 01, 1997
First Published in 1997.The 16 essays and interviews in this volume explore the background and works of Neil Simon, the most successful playwright in American history. Several of the entries trace Simon's Jewish heritage and its influence on his plays. Although Simon is best known as a writer of a ...
David Hare: A Casebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Hersh Zeifman
August 01, 1994
Learning that David Hare has written sixteen stage plays, eight collaborations, and eleven screenplays for film and television, one might be surprised by the fact that this leading English artist is not yet fifty years old. He was only twenty-two when his first play was performed by the Portable ...