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Author : Sanford Sternlicht
Release : 1998-06
Genre : Drama
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Book Synopsis A Reader's Guide to Modern Irish Drama by : Sanford Sternlicht
Download or read book A Reader's Guide to Modern Irish Drama written by Sanford Sternlicht. This book was released on 1998-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Reader's Guide to Modern Irish Drama provides an introduction to one of the great dramatic and theatrical traditions of Western culture.
Author : Sanford Sternlicht
Release : 2010-09-03
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 309/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Modern Irish Drama by : Sanford Sternlicht
Download or read book Modern Irish Drama written by Sanford Sternlicht. This book was released on 2010-09-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Irish Drama: W. B. Yeats to Marina Carr presents a thorough introduction to the recent history of one of the greatest dramatic and theatrical traditions in Western culture. Originally published in 1988, this updated edition provides extensive new material, charting the path of modern and contemporary Irish drama from its roots in the Celtic Revival to its flowering in world theater. The lives and careers of more than fifty modern Irish playwrights are discussed along with summaries of their major plays and recommendations for further reading.
Author : Sanford Sternlicht
Release : 2004-12-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 760/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Reader's Guide to Modern British Drama by : Sanford Sternlicht
Download or read book A Reader's Guide to Modern British Drama written by Sanford Sternlicht. This book was released on 2004-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the influences of modern history and psychology on British drama; the all-important influence of Irish dramatists like Wilde, Shaw, O’Casey, and Beckett; the significance of the Independent Theatre of J. T. Grein and the early Royal Court Theatre; the gay community’s contribution to the British theater; the powerful new feminist drama; and the British festival theater. Auseful tool for readers wishing to know more about Britain’s great dramatic tradition and vital contemporary theater, for students pursuing drama studies, and for libraries in need of an accessible reference work.
Author : Martin Middeke
Release : 2010-05-28
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 680/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights by : Martin Middeke
Download or read book The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights written by Martin Middeke. This book was released on 2010-05-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights is an authoritative guide to the work of twenty-five playwrights from the last 50 years whose work has helped to shape and define Irish theatre. Written by a team of international scholars, it provides an illuminating survey and analysis of each writer's plays and will be invaluable to anyone interested in, studying or teaching contemporary Irish drama. The playwrights examined range from John B. Keane, Brian Friel and Tom Murphy, to the crop of writers who emerged in the 1990s and who include Martin McDonagh, Marina Carr, Emma Donoghue and Mark O'Rowe. Each essay features: a biographical sketch and introduction to the playwright a discussion of their most important plays an analysis of their stylistic and thematic traits, the critical reception and their place in the discourses of Irish theatre a bibliography of texts and critical material With a total of 190 plays discussed in detail, over half of which were written during the 1990s and 2000s, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights is unrivalled in its study of recent plays and playwrights.
Author : Sanford Sternlicht
Release : 2002-04-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 399/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Reader's Guide to Modern American Drama by : Sanford Sternlicht
Download or read book A Reader's Guide to Modern American Drama written by Sanford Sternlicht. This book was released on 2002-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanford Sternlicht presents a comprehensive survey of modern American drama beginning with its antecedents in Victorian melodrama through the present. He discusses the work and achievement of more than seventy playwrights, from Eugene O’Neill to Suzan-Lori Parks—from the golden era of Broadway to the rise of Off-Broadway and regional theater. Stern-licht shows how world theater influenced the American stage, and how the views of American dramatists reflected the great American social movements of their times. In addition, he describes the contributions of early experimental theater, the Federal Theater of the 1930s, African American, feminist, and gay and lesbian drama—and the joyous trends and triumphs of American musical theater.
