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Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1940s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations: Decades of Modern American Drama: Playwriting from the 1930s to 2009

Autor Felicia Hardison Londré Brenda Murphy, Professor Julia Listengarten
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 aug 2019
TheDecades of Modern American Dramaseries provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material.The major playwrights and their works to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include:* Eugene O'Neill:The Iceman Cometh(1946),A Moon for the Misbegotten(1947),Long Day's Journey Into Night(written 1941, produced 1956), andA Touch of the Poet(written 1942, produced 1958);* Tennessee Williams:The Glass Menagerie(1944),A Streetcar Named Desire(1947),Summer and Smoke(1948);* Arthur Miller:All My Sons(1947),Death of a Salesman(1949), andThe Crucible(1953); * Thornton Wilder:Our Town(1938),The Skin of Our Teeth(1942),Shadow of a Doubt(1943), andThe Alcestiad(written 1940s).
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472571861
ISBN-10: 147257186X
Pagini: 328
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria Decades of Modern American Drama: Playwriting from the 1930s to 2009

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Offers detailed study of the best work of four of the top six American playwrights of all time whose work is commonly studied on literature and theatre courses from high school upwards

Notă biografică

Felicia Hardison Londré, Curators' Professor of Theatre at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA, is Dean of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre (2012-2014). Her many books includeThe Enchanted Years of the Stage: Kansas City at the Crossroads of American Theatre, 1870-1930(2007), awarded the George Freedley Memorial Award by the Theatre Library Association. For 23 years she was dramaturg for Missouri Repertory Theatre.

Cuprins

Acknowledgements Biographical Note and Notes on ContributorsGeneral Preface: Brenda Murphy and Julia Listengarten1. Introduction to the 1940s2. American Theatre in the 1940s3. Introducing the Playwrights4. Eugene O'Neill: Love and Loss of the Soul by Zander Brietzske5. Thornton Wilder: Seeing Beyond Dark Times by Felicia Hardison Londré, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA.6. Tennessee Williams: Experimentation and 'The Great American Play'by Thomas Keith, Pace University, USA.7. Arthur Miller: The Individual and Social Responsibility by Valleri J.Robinson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.AfterwordDocumentsA High-School Perspective on Theatre in 1947by Ann Crisp,Collecting O'Neillby Lamar LentzActing inThe Skin of Our Teethwith Helen Hayesby Hank WhittemoreTennessee Williams in Provincetownby David KaplanMapping Arthur Miller's Brooklynby Steven MarinoRetrospectiveby Thomas D. Pawley IIINotesBibliographyIndex