The Family In Twentieth Century American Drama
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The Family in Twentieth century American Drama
Author | : Thaddeus Wakefield |
Publsiher | : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : UOM:39015058097232 |
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The central subject of American drama is, arguably, the American family. From Royall Tyler's colonial comedy The Contrast (1787) to August Wilson's King Hedley II (2000), relationships between husbands, wives, and their children have been used consistently by American playwrights to explore and illuminate the American experience. This study of the family in twentieth-century American drama explores how filial relationships are affected by the capitalistic culture of consumption that permeates twentieth-century American society. By analyzing relationships within both traditional and nontraditional families, this book examines how family members in American plays perceive themselves and others as «things» in American twentieth-century capitalistic society.
The Commodification of the American Family
Author | : Thaddeus Paige Wakefield |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : American drama |
ISBN | : UCR:31210016525972 |
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A Critical Introduction to Twentieth Century American Drama Volume 2 Williams Miller Albee
Author | : C. W. E. Bigsby,Christopher William Edgar Bigsby |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1984-11-15 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521277175 |
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Dr Bigsby analyses the early unpublished plays and the major works of Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller and Edward Albee.
Revision as Resistance in Twentieth Century American Drama
Author | : M. Malburne-Wade |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2016-01-12 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781137441614 |
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American dramas consciously rewrite the past as a means of determined criticism and intentional resistance. While modern criticism often sees the act of revision as derivative, Malburne-Wade uses Victor Turner's concept of the social drama and the concept of the liminal to argue for a more complicated view of revision.
A Companion to Twentieth Century American Drama
Author | : David Krasner |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781405137348 |
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This Companion provides an original and authoritative surveyof twentieth-century American drama studies, written by some of thebest scholars and critics in the field. Balances consideration of canonical material with discussion ofworks by previously marginalized playwrights Includes studies of leading dramatists, such as TennesseeWilliams, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill and Gertrude Stein Allows readers to make new links between particular plays andplaywrights Examines the movements that framed the century, such as theHarlem Renaissance, lesbian and gay drama, and the soloperformances of the 1980s and 1990s Situates American drama within larger discussions aboutAmerican ideas and culture
A Critical Introduction to Twentieth Century American Drama Volume 1 1900 1940
Author | : C. W. E. Bigsby |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1982-07-29 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521271169 |
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Eugene O'Neill - Clifford Odets - Left-wing theatre - Black drama - Thornton Wilder - Lillian Hellman - Luigi Pirandello - Arthur Miller.
Re Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth Century American Drama
Author | : L. Bailey McDaniel |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2013-09-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781137299574 |
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Looking at a century of American theatre, McDaniel investigates how race-based notions of maternal performance become sites of resistance to cultural and political hierarchies. This book considers how the construction of mothering as universally women's work obscures additional, equally constructed subdivisions based in race and class.
Masterpieces of 20th Century American Drama
Author | : Susan C. W. Abbotson |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2005-09-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780313027239 |
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American playwrights have made enormous contributions to world drama during the last century, and their works are widely read and performed. This reference conveniently introduces 10 of the most important modern American plays read by students. An introductory essay concisely overviews modern American drama, and each of the chapters that follow examines a particular play. Among the plays discussed are Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, and August Wilson's The Piano Lesson. Each chapter includes a biography, a plot summary, an analysis of the play's themes, characters, and dramatic art, and a review of its historical background and reception. Chapters list works for further reading, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.