The American Drama, 1930-1940
Author | : Joseph E. Mersand |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Drama |
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Author | : Joseph E. Mersand |
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Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Drama |
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Author | : Felicia Hardison Londré |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 147257186X |
Introduction: Living in the 1940s -- Prelude to World War II -- Leaders of the decade -- World War II -- The war's impact on civilian life -- Post-war domestic life and consumerism -- Children -- Teen-agers -- Communications, media, and transportation -- Women and fashion -- The culture -- Cold War anxieties -- 1. The American theatre in the 1940s -- The late 1930s: forebodings of war -- Idiot's delight -- Influential organizations -- It can't happen here -- Broadway plays and musicals -- Radio drama -- The 1940-41 and 1941-42 seasons -- African American theatre -- Broadway plays and musicals -- Lady in the dark -- The American Theatre Wing and other war service organizations -- Radio drama -- The war years, 1942-1943 -- Broadway plays and musicals -- This is the army -- Oklahoma! -- The Paul Robeson Othello -- Post-war theatre, 1946-1950 -- African-American theatre -- Broadway plays and musicals -- Modern dance and theatrical dance -- Tributary theatres -- Directors and producers -- 2. Introducing the playwrights -- Introduction -- Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) -- Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) -- Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) -- Arthur Miller (1915-2005) -- 3. Eugene O'Neill: love and loss of the soul by Zander Brietzske -- A touch of the poet -- The iceman cometh -- Long day's journey into night -- A moon for the misbegotten -- 4. Thornton Wilder: seeing beyond dark times by Felicia Hardison Londre -- Our town -- The skin of our teeth -- Shadow of a doubt -- The alcestiad -- 5. Tennessee Williams: experimentation and "The great American play" by Thomas Keith -- Battle of angels -- Stairs to the roof -- The glass menagerie -- Summer and smoke -- A streetcar named desire -- 6. Arthur Miller: the individual and social responsibility by Valleri J. Robinson -- All my sons -- Death of a salesman -- The crucible -- 7. Documents: A high-school perspective on theatre in 1947 by Ann Crisp; Collecting O'Neill by Lamar Lentz; Acting in The skin of our teeth with Helen Hayes by Hank Whittemore; Tennessee Williams in Provincetown by David Kaplan; Mapping Arthur Miller's Brooklyn by Steven Marino; Retrospective by Thomas D. Pawley III -- Afterword
Author | : C. W. E. Bigsby |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1982-07-29 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521271165 |
Eugene O'Neill - Clifford Odets - Left-wing theatre - Black drama - Thornton Wilder - Lillian Hellman - Luigi Pirandello - Arthur Miller.
Author | : Anne Fletcher |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2019-11-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1350153591 |
The Decades of Modern American Drama 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 works to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * Clifford Odets: Waiting for Lefty (1935), Awake and Sing! (1935) and Golden Boy (1937); * Lillian Hellman: The Children's Hour (1934), The Little Foxes (1939), and Days to Come (1936); * Langston Hughes: Mulatto (1935), Mule Bone (1930, with Zora Neale Hurston) and Little Ham (1936); * Gertrude Stein: Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938), Four Saints in Three Acts (written in 1927, published in 1932) and Listen to Me (1936).
Author | : John R. Willingham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : American drama |
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Author | : Thomas P. Adler |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
"The 1940s and 1950s indisputably compose the classic period of American drama, witnessing the first productions of The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey Into Night, of Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, of The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Thomas P. Adler tells the story of these remarkable years largely through its dominant voices: Eugene O'Neill, Lillian Hellman, Arthur Miller, William Inge, Lorraine Hansberry, Edward Albee, and Tennessee Williams. One chapter - in Williams's case two - is devoted to each, and through careful analysis of the work of one playwright after another the persistent themes of the period emerge."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : Joseph E. Mersand |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : American drama |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : American drama |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : American drama |
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Author | : Thomas P. Adler |
Publisher | : Twayne Pub |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780805716214 |
This study covers the development of British drama from the time of the Roman colonization to the restoration of Charles II in 1660. The author provides an overview of scholarship on the subject since 1950, and goes on to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the two main approaches to drama study: stage history and the literary study of drama.