| Description |
xx, 396 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
[Garland reference library of the humanities] Casebooks on modern dramatists |
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Garland reference library of the humanities.
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Garland reference library of the humanities. Casebooks on modern dramatists.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Who wrote "John Arden's" plays? / Tish Dace -- Ayckbourn's theatricality / Bernard F. Dukore -- Empire of light : luminosity and space in Beckett's theater / William E. Gruber -- The Romans in Britain : aspirations and anxieties of a radical playwright / Robert F. Gross -- Monsters and heroines : Caryl Churchill's women / Lisa Merrill -- More real than realism : Horton Foote's impressionism / Tim Wright -- Negotiating history, negotiating myth : Friel among his contemporaries / Claire Gleitman -- Hedda's children : Simon Gray's anti-heroes / Katherine H. Burkman -- Romanticism and reaction : Hampton's transformation of Les liaisons dangereuses / Stephanie Barbé Hammer -- Playing with place : some filmic techniques in the plays of David Hare / John Russell Brown -- Master class and the paradox of the diva / Cary M. Mazer -- Phallus in wonderland : machismo and business in David Mamet's American buffalo and Glengarry Glen Ross / Hersh Zeifman -- A place at the table : hunger as metaphor in Lillian Hellman's Days to come and Marsha Norman's 'night, Mother / Linda Ginter Brown -- The personal, the political, and the postmodern in Osborne's Look back in anger and Déjàvu / Austin E. Quigley -- The dumb waiter, The collection, The lover, and The homecoming : a revisionist approach / George E. Wellwarth -- What's wrong with this picture? : David Rabe's comic-strip plays / Toby Silverman Zinman -- The artistic trajectory of Peter Shaffer / C.J. Gianakaris -- Great expectations : language and the problem of presence in Sam Shepard's writing / Ann Wilson -- Funny money in New York and London : Neil Simon and Alan Ayckbourn / Ruby Cohn -- Broadway babies : images of women in the musicals of Stephen Sondheim / Laura Hanson -- From Zurich to Brazil with Tom Stoppard / Felicia Hardison Londré -- David Storey's aesthetic of "invisible events" / William Hutchings -- Female laughter and comic possibilities : Uncommon women and others / Miriam M. Chirico -- Vision and reality : Their very own and Golden city and Centre 42 / Clive Barker -- August Wilson's folk traditions / Trudier Harris -- The artist in the garden : theatre space and place in Lanford Wilson / Thomas P. Adler. |
| Subject |
English drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
King, Kimball.
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| ISBN |
0815323492 |
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0815339267 paperback |
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