The Plays of Yasmina Reza on the English and American Stage
Author | : Amanda Giguere |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 078646187X |
The seven plays to date of Yasmina Reza, one of France's most prominent female playwrights, are popular both in France and abroad. Despite her commercial success, her plays have often been ignored in academic circles, and few scholars have attempted to explore the mechanics of her playwriting. This text seeks to unpack the essentials of Reza's style and to explore each play as a component of Reza's theatrical oeuvre. The result is a fuller understanding of her theatrical poetics and her development as an artist.
Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger
Author | : Professor Joanne Rochester |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2013-04-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1409475824 |
The playwrights composing for the London stage between 1580 and 1642 repeatedly staged plays-within and other metatheatrical inserts. Such works present fictionalized spectators as well as performers, providing images of the audience-stage interaction within the theatre. They are as much enactments of the interpretive work of a spectator as of acting, and as such they are a potential source of information about early modern conceptions of audiences, spectatorship and perception. This study examines on-stage spectatorship in three plays by Philip Massinger, head playwright for the King's Men from 1625 to 1640. Each play presents a different form of metatheatrical inset, from the plays-within of The Roman Actor (1626), to the masques-within of The City Madam (1632) to the titular miniature portrait of The Picture (1629), moving thematically from spectator interpretations of dramatic performance, the visual spectacle of the masque to staged 'readings' of static visual art. All three forms present a dramatization of the process of examination, and allow an analysis of Massinger's assumptions about interpretation, perception and spectator response.
Progress & Identity in the Plays of W.B. Yeats, 1892-1907
Author | : Barbara A. Suess |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2013-12-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135454078 |
Progress and Identity in the Poems of W. B. Yeats explores the ways in which Yeats's plays offer an alternative form of progress via a philosophical system of opposites: Always seeking the opposite, the nature of which changes as we change, we continually augment our personalities, and ultimately improve society, with the inclusion of the Other. This system, which eventually became Yeats's doctrine of the mask, provided his contemporaries with a method of changing what science, Platonism, and Victorian bourgeois ideologies claimed to be inescapable qualities of self. Progress and Identityn relocates Yeats's literary, social, and political relevance from his essentializing cultural nationalism to his later, more broad-minded definitions of progress.
New World Order of Postmodernism in the Plays of Harold Pinter
Author | : Saumya Rajan |
Publisher | : Partridge Publishing |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2018-07-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1543702260 |
The book reconnoiters the New World Order of Postmodernism in five plays The Room (1957), The Birthday Party (1957), The Caretaker (1960), The Homecoming (1965) and Celebration (2000) of Harold Pinter. With culturally structured, incomprehensibly manipulated, dual and fragmented characters, Harold Pinter analyses the ambiguities of political system. It is perhaps the System that forcibly drags Stanley to a world of systems in The Birthday Party. The situation of Ruth in The Homecoming clearly indicates the inevitable grip of this System. The last play Celebration overtly ridicules the very political system we approve of wherein the strategy consultants and the corporate people define the organized mechanism of this SYSTEM! The internalization of power which the power structures of societies and politics possess, appears largely in his plays, providing postmodernism its duality. Pinter offers us a true picture of our postmodernist culture an apocalyptic world at the edge of civilization.
The Plays of William Godwin
Author | : David O'Shaughnessy |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2016-06-16 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1315476231 |
Best known for "Enquiry Concerning Political Justice" (1793) and "Caleb Williams" (1794), William Godwin (1756-1836) is one of the most important figures of the Romantic period. This book offers academics the chance to build a complete picture of Godwin as a writer and political figure.
An International Annotated Bibliography of Strindberg Studies 1870-2005: The plays
Author | : Michael Robinson |
Publisher | : MHRA |
Total Pages | : 758 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0947623825 |
This copiously annotated bibliography documents and examines the whole range of commentary on Strindberg's works and activity in many fields besides the plays for which he is internationally best known. These include his prose fiction and poetry, his work as an historian and natural historian, and his relationship to the other arts, most notably his painting. It is concerned with both lasting works of literary and dramatic criticism, as well as reviews of his books and plays in the theatre, and some more ephemeral material, all of this in several languages. Organised generically and by subject and individual work, the bibliography enables the reader to trace the changing impact of Strindberg and his works in various countries and during different periods. It is thus very much a study in reception as well as a bibliographical record of published material. It traces the developing image of Strindberg and his writing both during his lifetime and in subsequent years, and with frequent cross reference offers a comprehensive overview of a literary and existential project that has rarely been matched for its multifaceted diversity. The bibliography is published in three parts. Volume 1, General Studies (978-0-947623-81-4) and Volume 3, Prose, Poetry, Miscellaneous (978-0-947623-83-8) are also now available. Michael Robinson is Emeritus Professor of Drama and Scandinavian Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.
The Plays of Aeschylus
Author | : Aeschylus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Greek drama (Tragedy) |
ISBN | : |