Author: Maxwell AndersonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Three American Plays By Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings
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Author: Maxwell AndersonThe Star-Wagon: a Play In Three Acts By Maxwell Anderson
Author: Maxwell AndersonThree Plays
Author: George KellyPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879102821
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
(Limelight). Ranging from rollicking farce to gentle satire to bitter domestic drama, these plays Torchbearers , The Show-Off and Craig's Wife reveal Kelly as a master theatrical craftsman, an unflinching observer of human character, and a playwright to be remembered. HARDCOVER.
Dramatist in America
Author: Laurence G. AveryPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469617285
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
From the 1920s through the 1950s Maxwell Anderson was one of the most important playwrights in America. His thirty-three produced plays make him a leader among these playwrights of America's most creative era in the theater, and a number of his plays have shown a lasting vitality and importance. What Price Glory (1924) dramatized the disillusionment and horror of World War I . With Elizabeth the Queen (1929), Winterset (1935), and High Tor (1936), Anderson revived poetic drama in the modern theater. His versatility as a playwright was further reflected in the satire Both Your Houses (1933), the historical parable Joan of Lorraine (1946), and the musical play Lost in the Stars (1949). This edition of Anderson's letters spans his adult life -- from 1912, shortly after he graduated from the University of North Dakota, to 1958, just before his death. Arranged chronologically, the letters reveal in full and intimate detail the development of his career, his methods of work, his relationships with theater people, his conceptions of himself as a playwright and of the nature of the theater, and his ideas about his plays, all of which focused on an inner moral struggle. Every aspect of his work and personality emerges in these letters, which serve as an autobiography in the rough. Each letter is fully annotated, permitting the reader to become a party to the correspondence. The editor has provided an informative introduction to the letters and also a substantial chronology of Anderson's life that incorporates the first complete bibliography of his plays, poems, essays, fiction, and screenplays. An appendix includes Anderson's previously unpublished statements about his life and his plays. Dramatist in America, the first edition of letters by a major American playwright, takes on added importance for its representative quality. It reveals the cultural and theatrical conditions under which a vital generation of playwrights created this country's finest period in the drama.
Winterset
Author: Maxwell AndersonPublisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822212669
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
THE STORY: Mio, believing that his father was innocent of the crime for which he was executed, pursues his long search for proof of his innocence. Following new evidence, his path crosses that of Miriamne, a strange creature who lives with her fami
An Analysis of the Dramatic Structure of Three Plays of Maxwell Anderson
Author: Mary Felice HolmesThe Bad Seed
Author: William MarchPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060795484
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Now reissued – William March's 1954 classic thriller that's as chilling, intelligent and timely as ever before. This paperback reissue includes a new P.S. section with author interviews, insights, features, suggested reading and more. What happens to ordinary families into whose midst a child serial killer is born? This is the question at the center of William march's classic thriller. After its initial publication in 1954, the book went on to become a million–copy bestseller, a wildly successful Broadway show, and a Warner Brothers film. The spine–tingling tale of little Rhoda Penmark had a tremendous impact on the thriller genre and generated a whole perdurable crop of creepy kids. Today, The Bad Seed remains a masterpiece of suspense that's as chilling, intelligent, and timely as ever before.
Elizabeth the Queen
Author: Maxwell AndersonPublisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573608575
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
"In this drama we see Elizabeth and Essex, a royal favorite and popular general, in love. He is barely thirty and Elizabeth is an aging woman; their love is an extraordinary paradox. Elizabeth delights in Essex the courtier and lover, but is jealous of Essex the military leader and hero. Her constant effort is to keep him quietly at Court under her control. Essex, the last of a proud family, loves the queen but longs for action, glory, and power. He longs to over throw Elizabeth's crafty, cautious statesmanship with his own heroic endeavors. Cecil and Raleigh plot to send Essex to Ireland, juggle him out of favor, and insultingly summon him home. He arrives with an army and the situation is resolved with extraordinary poignancy and power."--Publisher's description
Author: Maxwell Anderson