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Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1990s Voices, Documents, New Interpretations

Friedman Sharon Black Cheryl
Heftet / 2021 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781350215467
Publisert
2021-02-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Methuen Drama
Vekt
390 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
336

Forfatter
Friedman Sharon
Black Cheryl

Om bidragsyterne

Sharon Friedman is Associate Professor of Literature and Drama at the Gallatin School, New York University, USA. She is the editor of Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works (2008) and author of numerous essays on twentieth century drama.

Cheryl Black is Professor of Theatre at the University of Missouri, Columbia, USA. She is the author of The Women of Provincetown, 1915-1922 (2002) and has written widely on twentieth-century drama and performance.

Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1990s Voices, Documents, New Interpretations

Friedman Sharon Black Cheryl
Heftet / 2021 / Engelsk
Friedman Sharon Black Cheryl
Heftet / 2021 / Engelsk
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The story has been greatly helped by the efforts of superb joint editors. Not only have they managed to encapsulate the decade in their own writing but also selected impressively qualified experts to enthuse about the four chosen playwrights.

British Theatre Guide

The Decades of Modern American Playwriting series 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documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material.The major playwrights and their plays to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include:* Tony Kushner: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part One and Part Two (1991), Slavs! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness (1995) and A Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds (1997);* Paula Vogel: Baltimore Waltz (1992), The Mineola Twins (1996) and How I Learned to Drive (1997); * Suzan-Lori Parks: The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (1990), The America Play (1994) and Venus (1996);* Terrence McNally: Lips Together, Teeth Apart (1991), Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997) and Corpus Christi (1998).
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AcknowledgementsBiographical Note and Notes on ContributorsGeneral Preface: Brenda Murphy and Julia Listengarten 1. Introduction to the 1990s by Cherly Black, University of Missouri, USA; and Sharon Friedman, New York University, USA.2. American theatre in the 1990s by Cherly Black, University of Missouri, USA; and Sharon Friedman, New York University, USA.3. Terrence McNally by John M. Clum, Duke University, USA.4. Paula Vogel by Joanna Mansbridge, Billkent University, Ankara, Turkey.5. Tony Kushner by James Fisher, University of North Carolina, USA.6. Suzan-Lori Parks by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr, Loyola Marymount University, USA.AfterwordDocumentsNotesBibliographyIndex
Les mer
This volume offers a detailed account of the cultural, social, political and economic context for the theatre produced in 1990s America, and offers an indepth study of the work of four of the decade's major playwrights.
Les mer
The most thorough re-evaluation of eight decades of modern American theatre and drama, authored by leading American scholars
The definitive history of modern American drama from the 1930s to the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century.

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The story has been greatly helped by the efforts of superb joint editors. Not only have they managed to encapsulate the decade in their own writing but also selected impressively qualified experts to enthuse about the four chosen playwrights.

British Theatre Guide

The Decades of Modern American Playwriting series 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 plays to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include:* Tony Kushner: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part One and Part Two (1991), Slavs! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness (1995) and A Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds (1997);* Paula Vogel: Baltimore Waltz (1992), The Mineola Twins (1996) and How I Learned to Drive (1997); * Suzan-Lori Parks: The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (1990), The America Play (1994) and Venus (1996);* Terrence McNally: Lips Together, Teeth Apart (1991), Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997) and Corpus Christi (1998).
Les mer
AcknowledgementsBiographical Note and Notes on ContributorsGeneral Preface: Brenda Murphy and Julia Listengarten 1. Introduction to the 1990s by Cherly Black, University of Missouri, USA; and Sharon Friedman, New York University, USA.2. American theatre in the 1990s by Cherly Black, University of Missouri, USA; and Sharon Friedman, New York University, USA.3. Terrence McNally by John M. Clum, Duke University, USA.4. Paula Vogel by Joanna Mansbridge, Billkent University, Ankara, Turkey.5. Tony Kushner by James Fisher, University of North Carolina, USA.6. Suzan-Lori Parks by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr, Loyola Marymount University, USA.AfterwordDocumentsNotesBibliographyIndex
Les mer
This volume offers a detailed account of the cultural, social, political and economic context for the theatre produced in 1990s America, and offers an indepth study of the work of four of the decade's major playwrights.
Les mer
The most thorough re-evaluation of eight decades of modern American theatre and drama, authored by leading American scholars
The definitive history of modern American drama from the 1930s to the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350215467
Publisert
2021-02-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Methuen Drama
Vekt
390 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
336

Forfatter
Friedman Sharon
Black Cheryl

Om bidragsyterne

Sharon Friedman is Associate Professor of Literature and Drama at the Gallatin School, New York University, USA. She is the editor of Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works (2008) and author of numerous essays on twentieth century drama.

Cheryl Black is Professor of Theatre at the University of Missouri, Columbia, USA. She is the author of The Women of Provincetown, 1915-1922 (2002) and has written widely on twentieth-century drama and performance.

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