Dramatic Structure In The Contemporary American Theatre

Author : Robert Andreach
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1938288343
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dramatic Structure in the Contemporary American Theatre written by Robert Andreach and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this follow-up to his 2012 The Contemporary American Dramatic Trilogy, Robert J. Andreach continues his unique study of dramatic structure as evidenced through the overarching themes of contemporary American trilogies. The themes of the first play in a trilogy, he shows, can be far different from those developed as the sequence continues, citing examples from playwrights as varied as David Rabe and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Quiara Alegráa Hudes. Looking at the ways structure in a tragedy can be substituted for the Aristotelian plot, Andreach makes clear that because creating or reinventing oneself can be such a primary motivating force in American culture, a character's failed attempt to change the structure or plot of his or her life may indeed be tragic. The dramatic trilogy has been flourishing for some time now in new works and revivals of older ones by American, British, and European playwrights, with examples such as the Hunger Games trilogy and the Fifty Shades trilogy moving more recently even into the popular sphere. Combining his skills as both a professional reviewer of theater and a literary critic, Robert Andreach is in a unique position to provide coherence to what most observers perceive as an unrelated welter of contemporary theatrical experiences.

Author : Robert J. Andreach
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809321780
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating the Self in the Contemporary American Theatre written by Robert J. Andreach and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exploring the theatre from the 1960s to the present, Robert J. Andreach shows the various ways in which the contemporary American theatre creates a personal, theatrical, and national self." "Andreach argues that the contemporary American theatre creates multiple selves that reflect and give voice to the many communities within our multicultural society. These selves are fragmented and enclaved, however, which makes necessary a counter movement that seeks, through interaction among the various parts, to heal the divisions within, between, and among them." --Book Jacket.

Author : Robert J. Andreach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781680531787
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Approaches to the Contemporary American Theatre written by Robert J. Andreach and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a series of essays on contemporary theatre in the United States"--

Author : Bruce King
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349215821
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Theatre written by Bruce King and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Theatre written by Bruce King and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert J. Andreach
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761864016
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre written by Robert J. Andreach and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book refutes the claim that tragedy is no longer a vital and relevant part of contemporary American theatre. Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre examines plays by multiple contemporary playwrights and compares them alongside the works of America’s major twentieth-century tragedians: Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams. The book argues that tragedy is not only present in contemporary American theatre, but issues from an expectation fundamental to American culture: the pressure on characters to create themselves. Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre concludes that tragedy is vital and relevant, though not always in the Aristotelian model, the standard for traditional evaluation.

Author : Annette Saddik
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 074863066X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Drama written by Annette Saddik and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts that experiment with form and content, discussing influential playwrights and performance artists such as Tennessee Williams, Adrienne Kennedy, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Charles Ludlum, Anna Deavere Smith, Karen Finley and Will Power, alongside avant-garde theatre groups. Saddik traces the development of contemporary drama since 1945, and discusses the cross-cultural impact of postwar British and European innovations on American theatre from the 1950s to the present day in order to examine the performance of American identity. She argues that contemporary American theatre is primarily a postmodern drama of inclusion and diversity that destabilizes the notion of fixed identity and questions the nature of reality.

Author : Robert J. Andreach
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drawing Upon the Past written by Robert J. Andreach and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary American theatre re-creates and invokes classical theatre so as to generate interaction between the two theatres. Using selected works of fourteen playwrights, this book organizes the interaction into three sections: works dramatizing change and reconciliation, works dramatizing the inability or the unwillingness to change and reconcile, and works emphasizing various selves (personal, theatrical, national). By drawing on the past, the fourteen playwrights refine their art in the contemporary American theatre and their vision of contemporary American life.

Author : Deborah R. Geis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Theatric(k)s written by Deborah R. Geis and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses monologue's postmodern disruptions of linear narrative and character development.

Author : Annette J. Saddik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780343488
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Drama written by Annette J. Saddik and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions.