Studies in Modern Drama
Black Women Playwrights: Visions on the American Stage
1st Edition
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By Carol P. Marsh-Lockett, Carol P. Marsh-Lockett
January 05, 2017
This collection of critical essays on plays by African American female playwrights from the post-reconstruction period to the present provides thematic analyses of plays by major and less widely known African American women playwrights The contributors examine the plays as vehicles of public ...
The Art of Crime: The Plays and Film of Harold Pinter and David Mamet
1st Edition
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By Leslie Kane
May 13, 2016
This collection of 15 original essays, assembled by renowned Mamet and Pinter scholar Leslie Kane, examines the pervasiveness of crime and criminality in the plays and screenplays of two of the most influential contemporary dramatists. The contributors generally focus on one or more works by a ...
Peering Behind the Curtain: Disability, Illness, and the Extraordinary Body in Contemporary Theatre
1st Edition
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By Kimball King, Tom Fahy
April 27, 2016
This volume addresses disability in theater, and features all new work, including critical essays, interviews, personal essays, and an original play. It fills a gap in scholarship while promoting the profile of disability in theater. Peering Behind the Curtain examines the issues surrounding ...
Captive Audience: Prison and Captivity in Contemporary Theatre
1st Edition
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By Thomas Fahy, Kimball King
June 09, 2014
The first collection on this important topic, Captive Audience examines the social, gendered, ethnic, and cultural problems of incarceration as explored in contemporary theatre. Beginning with an essay by Harold Pinter, the original contributions discuss work including Harold Pinter's screenplays ...
Mama Dada: Gertrude Stein's Avant-Garde Theatre
1st Edition
By Sarah Bay-Cheng
September 29, 2005
Mama Dada is the first book to examine Gertrude Stein's drama within the history of the theatrical and cinematic avant-gardes. Since the publication of Stein's major writings by the Library of America in 1998, interest in her dramatic writing has escalated, particularly in American avant-garde ...
The Playwright's Muse
1st Edition
By Joan Herrington
July 05, 2002
August Wilson penned his first play after seeing a man shot to death. Horton Foote began writing plays to create parts for himself as an actor. Edward Albee faced commercial pressures to modify his scripts-and resisted. After Wit, Margaret Edson swore off playwriting altogether and decided to ...
Modern Dramatists: A Casebook of Major British, Irish, and American Playwrights
1st Edition
By Kimball King
March 14, 2001
This comprehensive collection gathers critical essays on the major works of the foremost American and British playwrights of the 20th century, written by leading figures in drama/performance studies....
Alan Bennett: A Critical Introduction
1st Edition
By Joseph O'Mealy
March 13, 2001
Alan Bennett is perhaps best known in the UK for the BBC production of his Talking Heads TV plays, while the rest of the world may recognize him for the film adaptation of his play, The Madness of King George. O'Mealy points out that Bennett is a social critic strongly influenced by Beckett and ...
The Pinter Ethic: The Erotic Aesthetic
1st Edition
By Penelope Prentice
August 09, 2000
The only comprehensive guide to the plays of one of the world's greatest yet most puzzling contemporary dramatists, The Pinter Ethic penetrates the mystery of Harold Pinter's work with compelling and authoritative insights that locate and disclose the primal power of his drama in his characters' ...
Reading Stephen Sondheim: A Collection of Critical Essays
1st Edition
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By Sandor Goodhart
December 01, 1999
Stephen Sondheim is arguably the most important writer for the American musical stage today, the equivalent in his field of Miller, Albee, O'Neill, and Williams. Yet he has rarely been treated seriously within the academy. Reading Stephen Sondheim: A Collection of Critical Essays is an attempt to ...
David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross: Text and Performance
1st Edition
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By Leslie Kane
November 01, 1999
The 12 original and two classic essays offer a dialectic on performance and structure, and substantially advance our knowledge of this seminal playwright. The commentaries examine feminism, pernicious nostalgia, ethnicity, the mythological land motif, the discourse of anxiety, gendered language, ...
New Theatre Vistas: Modern Movements in International Literature
1st Edition
By Judy L. Oliva
November 01, 1995
First Published in 1996. Part of a series of ‘Studies in Modern Drama’, Volume 7 This volume Studies in Modern Drama collects essays on contemporary theatre which reveal the changing face of the world, as well as challenges to the boundaries of traditional stage production. Authors examine familiar...