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Modern dramatists : a casebook of major British, Irish, and American playwrights / edited by Kimball King.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Garland reference library of the humanities
- Garland reference library of the humanities. Casebooks on modern dramatists
- [Garland reference library of the humanities] Casebooks on modern dramatists
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- American drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- American drama.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 396 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2001.
- Summary:
- In modern dramatists, Kimball King has assembled a comprehensive collection of insightful literary overviews of the foremost British, Irish, and American playwrights and plays of the late twentieth century, providing a valuable critical tool for informed readers of dramatic literature. Taken together, the twenty-six essays, written by leading figures in drama and theatre studies, reveal the tremendous range and vitality of modern theatre in England, Ireland, and the United States.
- Contents:
- Who Wrote "John Arden's" Plays? / Tish Dace 1
- Ayckbourn's Theatricality / Bernard F. Dukore 19
- Empire of Light: Luminosity and Space in Beckett's Theater / William E. Gruber 33
- The Romans in Britain: Aspirations and Anxieties of a Radical Playwright / Robert F. Gross 49
- Monsters and Heroines: Caryl Churchill's Women / Lisa Merrill 61
- More Real than Realism: Horton Foote's Impressionism / Tim Wright 75
- Negotiating History, Negotiating Myth: Friel among His Contemporaries / Claire Gleitman 93
- Hedda's Children: Simon Gray's Anti-heroes / Katherine H. Burkman 107
- Romanticism and Rection: Hampton's Transformation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses / Stephanie Barbe Hammer 117
- Playing with Place: Some Filmic Techniques in the Plays of David Hare / John Russell Brown 133
- Master Class and the Paradox of the Diva / Cary M. Mazer 153
- Phallus in Wonderland: Machismo and Business in David Mamet's American Buffalo and Glengarry Glen Ross / Hersh Zeifman 167
- A Place at the Table: Hunger as Metaphor in Lillian Hellman's Days to Come and Marsha Norman's 'night, Mother / Linda Ginter Brown 177
- The Personal, the Political, and the Postmodern in Osborne's Look Back in Anger and Dejavu / Austin E. Quigley 197
- The Dumb Waiter, The Collection, The Lover, and The Homecoming: A Revisionist Approach / George E. Wellwarth 219
- What's Wrong with this Picture? David Rabe's Comic-Strip Plays / Toby Silverman Zinman 229
- The Artistic Trajectory of Peter Shaffer / C. J. Gianakaris 241
- Great Expectations: Language and the Problem of Presence in Sam Shepard's Writing / Ann Wilson 257
- Funny Money in New York and London: Neil Simon and Alan Ayckbourn / Ruby Cohn 273
- Broadway Babies: Images of Women in the Musicals of Stephen Sondheim / Laura Hanson 293
- From Zurich to Brazil with Tom Stoppard / Felicia Hardison Londre 311
- David Storey's Aesthetic of "Invisible Events" / William Hutchings 325
- Female Laughter and Comic Possibilities: Uncommon Women and Others / Miriam M. Chirico 339
- Vision and Reality: Their Very Own and Golden City and Centre 42 / Clive Barker 361
- August Wilson's Folk Traditions / Trudier Harris 369
- The Artist in the Garden: Theatre Space and Place in Lanford Wilson / Thomas P. Adler 383.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0815323492
- 0815339267
- OCLC:
- 45418967
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