Playwrights

Playwrights - Good Beneath the Radar

Playwrights - Good Beneath the Radar

Authors and Artists for Young Adults: A Biographical Guide to Novelists, Poets, Playwrights Screenwriters, Lyricists, Illustrators, Cartoonists, Anima

Shakespeare and the Rival Playwrights, 1600-1606

David Farley-Hills argues that Shakespeare did not work in splendid isolation, but responded as any other playwright to the commercial and artistic pressures of his time.. The plays discussed are Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, Alls Well That Ends Well, Othello, Measure for Measure, Timon of Athens, and King Lear.

Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s

Unprecedented in diversity and scope, it is a collection which no scholar, student or lover of modern drama can afford to miss. Playwrights include: * Anne-Charlotte Leffler Edgren (Sweden) * Amelia Pincherle Rosselli (Italy) * Elsa Bernstein (Germany) * Elizabeth Robins (Britain) * Marie Leneru (France) * Zinaida Gippius (Russia) * Djuna Barnes (USA) * Marita Bonner (USA) This groundbreaking anthology explodes the traditional canon..Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s offers the first direct evidence that women playwrights helped create the movement known as Modern Drama. In these plays, the New Woman represents herself and her crises in all of the styles and genres available to the modern dramatist. Six of these plays are appearing in their first English-language translation. It contains twelve plays by women from the Americas,

Art, Glitter, and Glitz - Mainstream Playwrights and Popular Theatre in 1920s America

The theatre and drama. Essays also address the continuing relevance of Anderson and Stallings What Price Glory?, the impact of George Pierce Baker on the playwrights of the Dramatists Guild and its negotiation

Getting Into the Act - Women Playwrights in London 1776-1829

But within these scarred earlier histories there are equally powerful narratives of self-revelation, endurance, and professional triumph that may point to a new way forward. Getting Into the Act is a vigorous and refreshing account of seven female playwrights who, against all odds, enjoyed professional success in the late eighteenth

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama

. With a full chronology and bibliography, this collection cover the whole range of Irish drama from the late nineteenth-century melodramas which anticipated the rise of the Literary Revival - Yeats, Synge, Lady Gregory, Shaw, Wilde, OCasey - contemporary playwrights Brian Friel, Tom Murphy, Frank McGuiness and Sebastian Barry, in

Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain

. The volume explores how Black and Asian women playwrights theatricalize their experiences of migration, displacement, identity, racism and sexism in Britain. Plays by writers such as Tanika Gupta, Winsome Pinnock, Maya Chowdhry, and Amrit Wilson, among others - many of whom have had their work produced at key British theatre sites - are discussed in some detail

Contemporary Gay American Poets and Playwrights - An A-to-Z Guide

Gay presence is nothing new to American verse and theater. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, an overview of the authors critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. Homoerotic themes are discernible in American poetry as early as the 19th century, and identifiably gay characters appeared on the American stage more than 70 years ago.While the majority of included writers are well known, including Edward Albee, Harvey Fierstein, and Allen Ginsberg. Others, such as Alan Bowne, Timothy Liu,

A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama

2009 Screenwriters and Playwrights Market

This guide is the one-stop resource for playwrights and screenwriters providing both craft and marketing information. With everything from market listings to tips for formatting manuscripts to informative articles from industry professionals, this new market guide has everything you need to make it as a writer in showbiz..New in our

Upstaged - Making Theatre in the Media Age

How can theatre thrive in a culture increasingly dominated by the screen.. In conversations that range from close-ups to cultural imperialism,microphones to myth-making, sit-coms to Shakespeare and vocal technique to voyeurism, these thoughtful observers illuminate the struggle of making a living versus making art, the modern audiences preference for images over words and for technology over the human body, and the imperative that theatre play to its essential strengths of language, metaphor, immediacy and community

Encyclopedia of Latin American Theater

Latin American countries. A selected, general bibliography appears at the end of the country sections begins with an introductory survey and concludes with copious bibliographical information. The entries for playwrights provide factual

Contemporary African American Women Playwrights - A Casebook

.Kolin compiles a wealth of diverse, courageous and visionary dramas. Harry Elam, Stanford University, USAIn the last fifty years, American and World theatre has been challenged and enriched by the rise to prominence of numerous female

Flash and Crash Days - Brazilian Theater in the Post-Dictatorship Period

Flash and Crash Days examines how the absence of censorship, on the other, have given rise to a variety of theatrical modes which Brazil has never experienced in the 1960s and 1970s. There seems to be an unstated assumption that theater in Brazil thrives only under repression and dictatorship.

A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama

Balances consideration of canonical material with discussion of works by previously marginalized playwrights Includes studies of leading dramatists, such as the Harlem Renaissance, lesbian and gay drama, and the solo performances of the best scholars and critics in

Literary Ideas and Scripts for Young Playwrights

This collection presents techniques for tapping a broad range of literary sources to inspire young writers. Includes the following:Poetry for Choral Readings Fairy Tales for Readers Theater Fairy Tale Plays Story Joke Plays Poetry Plays Historical Plays Modern Cultural Myth Plays. The process inspires creativity, problem solving, observation, and listening skills within a writing and theatrical framework. Drawing upon poetry, folk tales, story jokes, and more, Literary Ideas walks students in grades 3-8 through the process of creating new stories and developing them as scripts for choral readings,

Feminist Views on the English Stage - Women Playwrights, 1990 2000

Performing Asian America - Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage

Butterfly, and Velina Hasu Houstons Tea, and new works like Jeannie Barrogas Walls and Wakako Yamauchis 12-1-a. Discussed are better-known plays such as Frank Chins The Chickencoop Chinaman, David Henry Hwangs M..At a time when Asian-American theater is enjoying a measure of growth and success, Josephine Lee tells us about the criticisms lobbed at Asian-American playwrights-for their choices in form, perpetuation of stereotype, or apparent sexism or homophobia-leads her to question how the presentation of Asian-American identity in the theater parallels problems and possibilities of identity offstage as well. By looking at performances and dramatic texts, Lee argues that playwrights produce a different conception of Asian-America in accordance with their unique set of sensibilities. Others deal with the problem of cultural stereotypes and how to reappropriate

Contemporary American Playwrights

Christopher Bigsby explores the works and influences of ten contemporary American playwrights: John Guare (House of Blue Leaves), Tina Howe (Museum and Approaching Zanzibar), Pulitzer Prize winner Lanford Wilson (Talleys Folly).. This lively and accessible book, by one

The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights

This volume addresses the work of one or more playwrights and to a way of thinking about plays. A detailed chronology and illustrations enhance the volume, which also includes bibliographical essays on recent criticism and on African-American women playwrights before 1930. Playwrights are discussed in the context of topics such as early comedy and melodrama, feminism and realism, the

Contemporary Plays by Women of Color - An Anthology

Contemporary Plays by Women of Color is the first anthology to display such an abundance of talent from such a wide range of todays women playwrights. This compelling collection includes works by award-winning and well-known playwrights such as Anna Deavere Smith, Cherrie Moraga, Pearl Cleage, Marga Gomez and Spiderwoman, as well as many exciting newcomers

Strategies of Political Theatre - Post-War British Playwrights

The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights

Playwrights covered include: Tom Murphy, Sebastian Barry, Marina Carr, Brian Friel, Thomas Kilroy, Martin McDonagh, Frank McGuinness, Mark ORowe, Christina Reid, Enda Walsh and many more.Unrivalled in its coverage of recent work and writers, this collection surveys and analyses the breadth, vitality and development of theatrical work to emerge from Ireland over the last fifty years..The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights is an authoritative single-volume guide to the playwright and their work, a survey and concise