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Replay : classic modern drama reimagined / Toby Zinman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zinman, Toby Silverman, 1942- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drama--Adaptations--History and criticism.
- Drama.
- Theater and society.
- Stage adaptations--History and criticism.
- Stage adaptations.
- Literature--Adaptations--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Literature--Adaptations.
- Drama--Adaptations.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 269 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015.
- Summary:
- "Replay: Classic Modern Drama Reimagined spans over a century of great theatre to explore how iconic plays have been adapted and versioned by later writers to reflect or dissect the contemporary zeitgeist. Starting with A Doll's House, Ibsen's much-reprised masterpiece of marital relations from 1879, Toby Zinman explores what made the play so controversial and shocking in its day before tracing how later reimaginings have reworked Ibsen's original. The spine of plays then includes such landmark works as Strindberg's Miss Julie, Oscar Wilde's comic The Importance of Being Earnest, Chekhov's Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya, Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, the Rattigan centenary revivals, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, ultimately arriving at Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Taking each modern play as the starting point, Zinman explores the diverse renderings and reworkings by subsequent playwrights and artists -including prominent directors and their controversial productions as well as acknowledging reworkings in film, opera and ballet. Through the course of this groundbreaking study we discover not only how theatrical styles have changed but how society's attitude towards politics, religion, money, gender, sexuality and race have radically altered over the course of the century. In turn Replay reveals how theatre can serve as both a reflection of our times and a provocation to them"-- Provided by publisher.
- "A study of the many reworkings and adaptations of classic plays on the modern stage which illuminates how each is shaped by or reacts against the prevailing mores of the day"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Woyzeck 13
- Notable productions 16
- Replays 17
- Part 1 "You can be better!" 23
- 1 Henrik Ibsen 25
- A Doll's House 26
- Notable productions 27
- Replays 31
- Hedda Gabler 38
- Replays 40
- 2 George Bernard Shaw 51
- Pygmalion 51
- Replays 54
- 3 Bertolt Brecht 61
- Mother Courage and Her Children 62
- Replays 68
- 4 Harley Granville Barker 73
- The Voysey Inheritance 74
- Replay 74
- Farewell to the Theatre 75
- Replay 77
- 5 Terence Rattigan 81
- The Winslow Boy 82
- Replays 85
- The Browning Version 89
- Replays 92
- The Sleeping Prince 93
- Replays 94
- 6 Arthur Miller 99
- Death of a Salesman 100
- Replays 104
- 7 Lorraine Hansberry 113
- A Raisin in the Sun 113
- Replays 116
- Part 2 "Nothing to be done." 135
- 8 August Strindberg 137
- Miss Julie 138
- Replays 140
- The Dance of Death 144
- Replays 146
- 9 Oscar Wilde 149
- The Importance of Being Earnest 149
- Replays 152
- 10 Anton Chekhov 159
- Uncle Vanya 160
- Replays 161
- The Three Sisters 170
- Replays 171
- Composite Chekhov 188
- 11 Thornton Wilder 199
- Our Town 199
- Replays 201
- 12 Tennessee Williams 211
- A Streetcar Named Desire 212
- Replays 215
- 13 Eugene Ionesco 221
- The Chairs 221
- Replay 225
- 14 Samuel Beckett 229
- Waiting for Godot 229
- Replays 234
- The prison productions 243.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781408182697
- 1408182696
- 9781408182680
- 1408182688
- OCLC:
- 875520263
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