A.R. Gurney : a casebook / / edited by Arvid F. Sponberg

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Disciplina: 812.54; 812/.54
• Soggetto topico: American literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: SponbergArvid F
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; General Editor's Note; Preface; A.R.GURNEY: AN INTRODUCTION; AN INTERVIEW WITH A.R.GURNEY; AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN CUNNINGHAM; AN INTERVIEW WITH HOLLAND TAYLOR; AN INTERVIEW W WITH DEBRA MOONEY; AN INTERVIEW W WITH JOHN TILLINGER; INDETERMINACY AS TRAGIC FATE: ISSUES OF RACE, CLASS, GENDER, AND SEXUAL ORBENTATION IN GURNEY; WHERE DOES THE WASP KEEP ITS STING? THE DYNAMICS OF ANGER IN THE PLAYS OF A.R.GURNEY; THE DINING ROOM: A TOCQUEVILLIAN TAKE ON THE DECLINE OF WASP CULTURE; WHAT I DID LAST SUMMER: REALIZING ONE'S POTENTIAL ; ABSENT FATHERS, TRANSIENT SONS: MILLER, INGE, AND GURNEYENTERING THE FOURTH DIMENSION: A.R.GUKNEY'S SWEET SUE; THE ALLUSIVE A.R.GURNEY; GURNEY'S SYLVIA: WHAT OFT WAS THOUGHT; PICNICS AND PARTIES: INGE, GURNEY, AND THE ARGUMENT OF COMEDY; A SACRED PLACE JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION, NOVEMBER 1975; PUSHlNG THE WALLS OF DRAMATIC FORM THE NEW YORK TIMES, JULY 27, 1986; THE DINNER PARTY AMERICAN HERITAGE, 39 (SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1988); CONVERSATION PIECE NEWSWEEK, JUNE 26,1989; CRTTICAL CONDITION AMERICAN THEATRE, JUNE 24 7,1991 ; WHEN THE FINAL ACT IS ONLY A BEGINNING THE NEW YORK TIMES, OCTOBER 27, 1991SHAW, THE ETERNAL SCHOOLMASTER, CAN STTLL BE WISE THE NEW YORK TIMES, JANUARY 31, 1993; COMING HOME TO A MUSICAL THAT SOUNDS LIKE AMERICA THE NEW YORK TIMES, SEPTEMBER 8,1996; HIGH TIME FOR COMEDY (AND POLITICAL OUTRAGE) THE NEW YORK TIMES, NOVEMBER 10,2002; Afterword: A Cue for Gurney Studies; Chronology; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This is the first full-length study devoted to the art of A.R. Gurney, a major contemporary American playwright who has written over thirty plays, including Love Letters. This volume brings together original interviews with Gurney and four actors and a director who have worked closely with him, as well as essays by leading theater scholars on the range of Gurney's work.
• Titolo autorizzato: A.R. Gurney
• ISBN: 1-135-95601-4; 1-280-05121-3; 0-203-49268-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450225403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Casebooks on modern dramatists.