A History Of Modern Drama Volume I

Author : David Krasner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118893271
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Modern Drama, Volume II written by David Krasner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Modern Drama: Volume II explores a remarkable breadth of topics and analytical approaches to the dramatic works, authors, and transitional events and movements that shaped world drama from 1960 through to the dawn of the new millennium. Features detailed analyses of plays and playwrights, examining the influence of a wide range of writers, from mainstream icons such as Harold Pinter and Edward Albee, to more unorthodox works by Peter Weiss and Sarah Kane Provides global coverage of both English and non-English dramas – including works from Africa and Asia to the Middle East Considers the influence of art, music, literature, architecture, society, politics, culture, and philosophy on the formation of postmodern dramatic literature Combines wide-ranging topics with original theories, international perspective, and philosophical and cultural context Completes a comprehensive two-part work examining modern world drama, and alongside A History of Modern Drama: Volume I, offers readers complete coverage of a full century in the evolution of global dramatic literature.

Author : Richard Gilman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300079029
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of Modern Drama written by Richard Gilman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical exploration of modern drama begins with Büchner and Ibsen and then discusses the major playwrights who have shaped modern theater. A new introduction by the author assesses developments of recent years.

Author : David Krasner
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781405157582
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Modern Drama, Volume II written by David Krasner and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Modern Drama: Volume II explores a remarkable breadth of topics and analytical approaches to the dramatic works, authors, and transitional events and movements that shaped world drama from 1960 through to the dawn of the new millennium. Features detailed analyses of plays and playwrights, examining the influence of a wide range of writers, from mainstream icons such as Harold Pinter and Edward Albee, to more unorthodox works by Peter Weiss and Sarah Kane Provides global coverage of both English and non-English dramas – including works from Africa and Asia to the Middle East Considers the influence of art, music, literature, architecture, society, politics, culture, and philosophy on the formation of postmodern dramatic literature Combines wide-ranging topics with original theories, international perspective, and philosophical and cultural context Completes a comprehensive two-part work examining modern world drama, and alongside A History of Modern Drama: Volume I, offers readers complete coverage of a full century in the evolution of global dramatic literature.

Author : Gabrielle H. Cody
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama written by Gabrielle H. Cody and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama covers the period from 1860 to the present. ... The distinctive feature of this encyclopedia is the emphasis it places on the cultural context of dramatic works and their authors."--Preface.

Author : Una Chaudhuri
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472065899
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staging Place written by Una Chaudhuri and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study of the notion of place and its implications in modern drama

Author : David Krasner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118893204
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Modern Drama, Volume II written by David Krasner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Modern Drama: Volume II explores a remarkable breadth of topics and analytical approaches to the dramatic works, authors, and transitional events and movements that shaped world drama from 1960 through to the dawn of the new millennium. Features detailed analyses of plays and playwrights, examining the influence of a wide range of writers, from mainstream icons such as Harold Pinter and Edward Albee, to more unorthodox works by Peter Weiss and Sarah Kane Provides global coverage of both English and non-English dramas – including works from Africa and Asia to the Middle East Considers the influence of art, music, literature, architecture, society, politics, culture, and philosophy on the formation of postmodern dramatic literature Combines wide-ranging topics with original theories, international perspective, and philosophical and cultural context Completes a comprehensive two-part work examining modern world drama, and alongside A History of Modern Drama: Volume I, offers readers complete coverage of a full century in the evolution of global dramatic literature.

Author : David Krasner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405157585
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Modern Drama, Volume II written by David Krasner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Modern Drama: Volume II explores a remarkable breadth of topics and analytical approaches to the dramatic works, authors, and transitional events and movements that shaped world drama from 1960 through to the dawn of the new millennium. Features detailed analyses of plays and playwrights, examining the influence of a wide range of writers, from mainstream icons such as Harold Pinter and Edward Albee, to more unorthodox works by Peter Weiss and Sarah Kane Provides global coverage of both English and non-English dramas – including works from Africa and Asia to the Middle East Considers the influence of art, music, literature, architecture, society, politics, culture, and philosophy on the formation of postmodern dramatic literature Combines wide-ranging topics with original theories, international perspective, and philosophical and cultural context Completes a comprehensive two-part work examining modern world drama, and alongside A History of Modern Drama: Volume I, offers readers complete coverage of a full century in the evolution of global dramatic literature.

Author : O. B. Hardison Jr.
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421430878
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Rite and Christian Drama in the Middle Ages written by O. B. Hardison Jr. and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1965. The European dramatic tradition rests on a group of religious dramas that appeared between the tenth and twelfth centuries. These dramas, of interest in themselves, are also important for the light they shed on three historical and critical problems: the relation of drama to ritual, the nature of dramatic form, and the development of representational techniques. Hardison's approach is based on the history of the Christian liturgy, on critical theories concerning the kinship of ritual and drama, and on close analysis of the chronology and content of the texts themselves. Beginning with liturgical commentaries of the ninth century, Hardison shows that writers of the period consciously interpreted the Mass and cycle of the church year in dramatic terms. By reconstructing the services themselves, he shows that they had an emphatic dramatic structure that reached its climax with the celebration of the Resurrection. Turning to the history of the Latin Resurrection play, Hardison suggests that the famous Quem quaeritis—the earliest of all medieval dramas—is best understood in relation to the baptismal rites of the Easter Vigil service. He sets forth a theory of the original form and function of the play based on the content of the earliest manuscripts as well as on vestigial ceremonial elements that survive in the later ones. Three texts from the eleventh and twelfth centuries are analyzed with emphasis on the change from ritual to representational modes. Hardison discusses why the form inherited from ritual remained unchanged, while the technique became increasingly representational. In studying the earliest vernacular dramas, Hardison examines the use of nonritual materials as sources of dramatic form, the influence of representational concepts of space and time on staging, and the development of nonceremonial techniques for composition of dialogue. The sudden appearance of these elements in vernacular drama suggests the existence of a hitherto unsuspected vernacular tradition considerably older than the earliest surviving vernacular plays.

Author : Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199658773
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Drama written by Kirsten Shepherd-Barr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of modern drama through its seminal, groundbreaking plays and performances, and the artistic diversity that these represent. Exploring the new note of artistic hostility between dramatists and their audience, Shepherd-Barr draws on a range of theories and performances to reveal what makes modern drama 'modern'.

Author : John D. Cox
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231102438
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New History of Early English Drama written by John D. Cox and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-six original essays by leading theorists and historians of the pre-seventeenth-century English stage chart a paradigmatic shift within the field. In contrast to the traditional emphasis on individual authors, the contributors to this storehouse of new historical information and critical insight explore the place of the stage within the larger society, as well as issues of performance and physical space, providing an innovative approach to both literary studies and cultural history.