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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820523603321

Titolo

The playwright's muse / / edited by Joan Herrington

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-54219-1

0-203-05596-9

1-136-54212-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Collana

Studies in Modern Drama

Altri autori (Persone)

HerringtonJoan <1960->

Disciplina

812/.5409

Soggetti

American drama - 20th century - History and criticism

Dramatists, American - 20th century

Drama - Technique

Playwriting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ""Not Having It All"": Wendy Wasserstein's Uncommon Women; Interview with Wendy Wasserstein ; Birth, Baptism, and Resurrection: August Wilson and the Blues ; Interview with August Wilson; Broadway Boundaries: Neil Simon and Popular Culture; Interview with Neil Simon; Lessons from Our First Frontier; Interview with Robert Schenkkan ; Kushner's Arcades: ""The Borders are Full of Holes""; Interview with Tony Kushner ; ""A'S"" Last Memory: Contextualizing Albee's Three Tall Women; Interview with Edward Albee; Horton Foote: Mystic of the American Theatre

Interview with Horton FooteJonathan Larson Rocks Broadway; Conversations with Jonathan Larson ; Seducing the Audience: Politics in the Plays of Paula Vogel; Interview with Paula Vogel; Margaret Edson: Playwright in Spite of Herself; Donald Margulies: From Boitschick to Man; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.