Modern Verse Drama

Author : Arnold P. Hinchliffe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351630202
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Verse Drama written by Arnold P. Hinchliffe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1977, this book provides a clear and well-illustrated analysis of modern verse drama. It studies the work of its chief exponents, T. S. Eliot and Christopher Fry, as well as the genre’s place in the development of modern theatre. It particular focuses on the effect that verse drama has had on an audience’s awareness of language in the theatre, paving the way for dramatists like Pinter, Beckett and Wesker. This book will be of particular interest to those studying modern poetry and drama.

Author : Douglas Bellamy Kurdys
Publisher : Salzburg : Inst. f. Engl. Sprache u. Literatur, Univ. Salzburg
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Form in the Modern Verse Drama written by Douglas Bellamy Kurdys and published by Salzburg : Inst. f. Engl. Sprache u. Literatur, Univ. Salzburg. This book was released on 1972 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kayla McKinney Wiggins
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Verse Drama in English written by Kayla McKinney Wiggins and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1993-10-25 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography provides a comprehensive record of verse drama in modern literature. The volume begins with an introduction, which discusses the significance of verse drama in modern theater, and which overviews the history and intent of modern verse drama. The bibliography that follows provides entries for more than 500 plays written in verse or in verse and prose between 1935 and 1992. Included are works by renowned playwrights such as T.S. Eliot, Christopher Fry, and John Arden, as well as plays by lesser-known dramatists. The plays are organized alphabetically by the name of the author. Included are anthologies of plays as well. Each entry is accompanied by an annotation that succinctly overviews the major themes and significance of the work. Title and subject index conclude the reference.

Author : Sarah Bay-Cheng
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 1575911280
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poets at Play written by Sarah Bay-Cheng and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with Stevens's Three Travelers Watch a Sunrise (1916) as a dynamic introduction to the modernist transformation of poetry into performance, the collection also includes Millay's biting anti-war satire, Aria da Capo (1920) and H.D.'s Hippolytus Temporizes (1927), loosely adapted from the Euripides play. Both plays demonstrate the Greek poets' enduring legacy in modern poetic drama --

Author : Donna Lorine Gerstenberger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complex Configuration: Modern Verse Drama written by Donna Lorine Gerstenberger and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Coburn Freer
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142143430X
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Jacobean Drama written by Coburn Freer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1982. The Poetics of Jacobean Drama argues for a rediscovered approach to the study of Renaissance drama. Coburn Freer observes that most modern criticism of this drama treats the plays as if they were written in prose, thus overlooking whole areas of dramatic meaning that were understood in the past. Such an understanding, he asserts, was common among writers, actors, audiences, and readers of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, and a knowledge of it is essential to a full appreciation of the characterization and dramatic structures in these plays. Freer explores the evolution of the modern reluctance to approach Renaissance drama as one would dramatic poetry—from the standpoint of a listener. Blank verse, the author shows, provided Jacobean dramatists with a poetic form against which they could work the pressures of experience within their characters. The writers' ability to work with and against this form provided infinite resources for delineating character and creating significant coherences in the structure of a play. The Poetics of Jacobean Drama offers insights into what the Renaissance writer, actor, and playgoer would have regarded as the domain of poetry in drama. Topics discussed include the conditions of stage performance and the style of acting, Elizabethan education, the rise of printed texts and collected editions, and the comments of Elizabethan audiences and readers. Freer's commentary and theoretical explanations suggest both why and how we should pay closer attention to the poetry of Renaissance drama.

Author : Thomas Stearns Eliot
Publisher : Cambridge : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetry and Drama written by Thomas Stearns Eliot and published by Cambridge : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1951 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kasia Lech
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429535678
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dramaturgy of Form written by Kasia Lech and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramaturgy of Form examines verse in twenty-first-century theatre practice across different languages, cultures, and media. Through interdisciplinary engagement, Kasia Lech offers a new method for verse analysis in the performance context. The book traces the dramaturgical operation of verse in new writings, musicals, devised performances, multilingual dramas, Hip Hop theatre, films, digital projects, and gig theatre, as well as translations and adaptations of classics and new theatre forms created by Irish, Spanish, Nigerian, Polish, American, Canadian, Australian, British, Russian, and multinational artists. Their verse dramaturgies explore timely issues such as global identities, agency and precarity, global and local politics, and generational and class stories. The development of dramaturgy is discussed with the focus turning to the new stylized approach to theatre, whose arrival Hans-Thies Lehmann foretold in his Postdramatic Theatre, documenting a turning point for contemporary Western theatre. Serving theatre-makers, scholars, and students working with classical and contemporary verse and poetry in performance contexts; practitioners and academics of aural and oral dramaturgies; voice and verse-speaking coaches; and actors seeking the creative opportunities that verse offers, Dramaturgy of Form reveals verse as a tool for innovation and transformation that is at the forefront of contemporary practices and experiences.

Author : Stuart Ramsay McLeod
Publisher : Salzburg : Inst. f. Engl. Sprache u. Literatur, Univ. Salzburg
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Verse Drama written by Stuart Ramsay McLeod and published by Salzburg : Inst. f. Engl. Sprache u. Literatur, Univ. Salzburg. This book was released on 1972 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Irene Morra
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147258015X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Verse Drama in England, 1900-2015 written by Irene Morra and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verse Drama in England, 1900-2015 provides a critical and historical exploration of a tradition of modern dramatic creativity that has received very little scholarly attention. Exploring the emergence of a distinctly modern verse drama at the turn of the century and its development into the twenty-first, it counters common assumptions that the form is a marginal, fundamentally outdated curiosity. Through an examination of the extensive and diverse engagement of literary and theatrical writers, directors and musicians, Irene Morra identifies in modern verse drama a consistent and often prominent attempt to expand upon, revitalize, and redefine the contemporary English stage. Dramatists discussed include Stephen Phillips, Gordon Bottomley, John Masefield, James Elroy Flecker, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Ronald Duncan, Christopher Fry, John Arden, Anne Ridler, Tony Harrison, Steven Berkoff, Caryl Churchill, and Mike Bartlett. The book explores the negotiation of these dramatists with the changing position of verse drama in relation to constructions of national and communal audience, aesthetic challenge, and dramatic heritage. Key to the study is the self-conscious positioning of many of these dramatists in relation to an assumed mainstream tradition – and the various critical responses that that positioning has provoked. The study advocates for a scholarly revaluation of what must be identified as an influential and overlooked tradition of aesthetic challenge and creativity.