Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages :
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Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages :
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Edward Albee
Author: Barbara L. HornPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313052611
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
This volume documents the life and works of the acclaimed playwright, Edward Albee. His first four plays were all produced Off Broadway from 1960-1961, creating buzz that he was an up-and-coming avant-garde playwright. But his most notable accomplishment came a year later with his first full-length play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. His plays were linked with the philosophies of the European absurdists, Beckett and Ionesco, and the American traditional social criticism of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and Eugene O'Neill. Intended to serve as a quick reference guide and an exhaustive resource, this collection includes play synopses and critical overviews, production histories and credits, and locator suggestions on unpublished archival material and lists of texts/anthologies that have published Albee's material. The two secondary bibliographies contained within are fully annotated chronologically and alphabetically with the year of publication, presenting a fuller sense of Albee's playwriting career.
American Book Publishing Record
Author: Twentieth Century Fiction
Author: George WoodcockPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349170666
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
Author: John HordenPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
William Inge and the Subversion of Gender
Author: Jeff JohnsonPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078648098X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Inspired by a meeting with Tennessee Williams, American playwright William Inge found success early, winning a Pulitzer for drama and an Academy Award for best screenplay. His small-town upbringing profoundly influenced his writing, and one of his major recurring themes was the traditional roles of gender. This close study of Inge's work focuses particularly on his technique of "gendermandering," patterns of gender-role reversals which Inge exploits not only for dramatic effect but also to subvert social expectations. Fully considered are stereotypes and established gender roles, especially as they were reinforced socially during the 1940s and 1950s. The author concentrates largely on material that is strictly Inge's, not adaptations or collaborations, and on work that has been published and is readily available to the general public. All major plays; a collection of his short plays; the screenplay of Splendor in the Grass (1961); and his novel Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff are covered. Some of Inge's more inaccessible material, including a few short published plays as well as some of the unpublished manuscripts held in the Inge Collection at Independence Community College in Independence, Kansas, is also addressed.
Twentieth Century American Literature
Author: Warren FrenchPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 134916416X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Behind Spanish American Footlights
Author: Willis Knapp JonesPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477300155
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Across a five-hundred-year sweep of history, Willis Knapp Jones surveys the native drama and the Spanish influence upon it in nineteen South American countries, and traces the development of their national theatres to the 1960s. This volume, filled with a fascinating array of information, sparkles with wit while giving the reader a fact-filled course in the history of Spanish American drama that he can get nowhere else. This is the first book in English ever to consider the theatre of all the Spanish American countries. Even in Spanish, the pioneer study that covers the whole field was also written by Jones. Jones sees the history of a nation in the history of its drama. Pre-Columbian Indians, conquistadores, missionary priests, viceroys, dictators, and national heroes form a background of true drama for the main characters here—those who wrote and produced and acted in the make-believe drama of the times. The theatre mirrors the whole life of the community, Jones believes, and thus he offers information about geography, military events, and economics, and follows the politics of state and church through dramatists’ offerings. Examining the plays of a people down the centuries, he shows how the many cultural elements of both Old and New Worlds have been blended into the distinct national characteristics of each of the Spanish American countries. He does full justice to the subject he loves. A lively storyteller, he adds tidbits of spice and laughter, long-buried vignettes of history, tales of politics and drama, stories of high and low life, plots of plays, bits of verse, accounts of dalliance and of hard work, and sad and happy endings of rulers and peons, dramatists, actors, and clowns. A valuable appendix is a selected reading guide, listing the outstanding works of important Spanish American dramatists. A generous bibliography is a useful addition for scholars.
The Syntax of English Phrasal Verbs
Author: Kazimierz A. SrokaPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311080137X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Gore Vidal
Author: S. T. JoshiPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810860018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This comprehensive bibliography of Gore Vidal charts his career and covers the span of his sixty years of writing-from his first novel, Williwaw, to his 2006 memoir Point to Point Navigation.