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Children at Play

2008-09 History
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Release : 2008-09
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 652/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Children at Play by : Howard P. Chudacoff

Download or read book Children at Play written by Howard P. Chudacoff. This book was released on 2008-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Play -- Childhood and play in colonial America -- Domesticating children, 1800-1850 -- The arrival of toys, 1850-1900 -- The invasion of children's play culture, 1900-1950 -- The golden age, 1900-1950 -- The commercialization of children's play, 1950 to the present -- Children's play goes underground, 1950 to the present -- Conclusion

The American Play

2009-01-01 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2009-01-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The American Play by : Marc Robinson

Download or read book The American Play written by Marc Robinson. This book was released on 2009-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant study, Marc Robinson explores more than two hundred years of plays, styles, and stagings of American theater. Mapping the changing cultural landscape from the late eighteenth century to the start of the twenty-first, he explores how theater has--and has not--changed and offers close readings of plays by O'Neill, Stein, Wilder, Miller, and Albee, as well as by important but perhaps lesser known dramatists such as Wallace Stevens, Jean Toomer, Djuna Barnes, and many others. Robinson reads each work in an ambitiously interdisciplinary context, linking advances in theater to developments in American literature, dance, and visual art. The author is particularly attentive to the continuities in American drama, and expertly teases out recurring themes, such as the significance of visuality. He avoids neatly categorizing nineteenth- and twentieth-century plays and depicts a theater more restive and mercurial than has been recognized before. Robinson proves both a fascinating and thought-provoking critic and a spirited guide to the history of American drama.

The America Play

1995 Drama
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Release : 1995
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 236/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The America Play by : Suzan-Lori Parks

Download or read book The America Play written by Suzan-Lori Parks. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Once upon a time there was a theme park called the Great Hole of History. It was a popular spot for honeymooners who, in search of post-nuptial excitement, would visit this hole and watch the daily historical parades. One of these visi

The America Play and Other Works

2013-10-15 Drama
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Release : 2013-10-15
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 369/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The America Play and Other Works by : Suzan-Lori Parks

Download or read book The America Play and Other Works written by Suzan-Lori Parks. This book was released on 2013-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Parks has burst through every known convention to invent a new theatrical language, like a jive Samuel Beckett, while exploding American cultural myths and stereotypes along the way.... She's passionate and jokey and some kind of genius."--Vogue A collection of plays and essays by one of America's premier playwrights. Includes the essays "Possession," "from Elements of Style," and "An Equation for Black People Onstage," and the plays Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, Betting on Dust Commander, Pickling, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Devotees in the Garden of Love, and The America Play.

America At Play

2020-03 Poetry
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Release : 2020-03
Genre : Poetry
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Book Synopsis America At Play by : Mathias Svalina

Download or read book America At Play written by Mathias Svalina. This book was released on 2020-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America At Play is a collection of instructions for children's games. Part poetry, part whimsy, part despair, games such as "Freight Train Tag,""Baptism," & "World War" teach valuable lessons, such as how to play & how to be American. It is, Heraclitus said, reality's nature to remain hidden, but its rules are easily observed.

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