Modern Dramatists (A Casebook of the Major British and American Playwrights)

Title: Modern Dramatists (A Casebook of the Major British and American Playwrights)
Author: King, Kimball
Price: $50.99

This comprehensive collection gathers critical essays on the major works of the foremost American and British playwrights of the 20th century, written by leading figures in drama/performance studies.

CONTENTS
The Personal, the Political, and the Post-modern in Osbourne's Look Back in Anger and Deja Vu\" by Austin Quigley
* \"More than Realism: Horton Foote's Impressionism\" by Tim Wright
* \"David Story's Aesthetic of Invisible Events\" by William Hutchings
* \"What's Wrong With This Picture? David Rabe's Comic-Strip Plays\" by Toby Silverman
* \"Hedda's Children: Simon Gray's Anti-Heroes\" by Katherine Burkman
* \"Romanticism and Reaction: Hampton's Transformation of Liasons Dangereuses\" by Stephanie Barbe Hammer
* \"The Artistic Trajectory of Peter Schaffer\" by C.J. Gianakaris
* \"The Artist in the Garden: Theatre Space and Place in Landford Wilson\" by Thomas P. Adler
* \"Great Expectations: Languages and the Problem of Presence in Sam Shepard's Writing\" by Ann Wilson
* \"Vision and Reality: Their Very Own > and Golden City and Center 42\" by Clive Barker
* \"Funny Money in New York and London: Neil Simon and Alan Aykbourn\" by Ruby Cohn
* \"Master Class and the Paradox of the Diva\" by Cary Mazer
* \"From Zurich to Brazil with Tom Stoppard\" by Felicia Hardison Londre
* \"The Romans in Britain: Aspirations and Anxieties of a Radical Playwright\" by Ann Wilson
* \"Female Laughter and Comic Possibilities: Uncommon Women and Others\" by Miriam Chirico
* \"Phallus in Wonderland: Machismo and Business in David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross\" by Hersh Zeifman
* \"The Dumb Waiter, The Collection, The Lover, and The Homecoming: A Revisionist Approach\" by George Wellworth
* \"Who Wrote John Arden's Plays?\" by Tish Dace
* \"Negotiating History, Negotiating Myth: Friel Among his Contemporaries\" by Claire Gleitman
* \"Monsters and Heroines: Caryl Churchill's Women\" by Lisa Merrill
* \"Playing with Place: Some Filmic Techniques in the Plays of David Hare\" by John Russell Brown.

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication date: 12/04/2001
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780815339267
Publishing status: AU In-stock Distributor