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A companion to modern British and Irish drama, 1880-2005 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mary Luckhurst
| A companion to modern British and Irish drama, 1880-2005 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mary Luckhurst |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (604 p.) |
| Disciplina |
822.909
822/.9109 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | LuckhurstMary |
| Collana | Blackwell companions to literature and culture |
| Soggetto topico |
English drama - 20th century - History and criticism
English drama - Irish authors - History and criticism |
| ISBN |
1-78268-618-5
1-281-32236-9 9786611322366 1-4051-6552-9 0-470-75148-7 0-470-75147-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
A COMPANION TO MODERNBRITISH AND I RISHDRAMA; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Contexts; 1 Domestic and Imperial Politics in Britain and Ireland: The Testimony of Irish Theatre; 2 Reinventing England; 3 Ibsen in the English Theatre in the Fin de Siècle; 4 New Woman Drama; Part II Mapping New Ground, 1900-1939; 5 Shaw among the Artists; 6 Granville Barker and the Court Dramatists; 7 Gregory, Yeats and Ireland's Abbey Theatre; 8 Suffrage Theatre: Community Activism and Political Commitment; 9 Unlocking Synge Today
10 Sean O'Casey's Powerful Fireworks11 Auden and Eliot: Theatres of the Thirties; Part III England, Class and Empire, 1939-1990; 12 Empire and Class in the Theatre of John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy; 13 When Was the Golden Age? Narratives of Loss and Decline: John Osborne, Arnold Wesker and Rodney Ackland; 14 A Commercial Success: Women Playwrights in the 1950s; 15 Home Thoughts from Abroad: Mustapha Matura; 16 The Remains of the British Empire: The Plays of Winsome Pinnock; Part IV Comedy; 17 Wilde's Comedies; 18 Always Acting: Noël Coward and the Performing Self; 19 Beckett's Divine Comedy 20 Form and Ethics in the Comedies of Brendan Behan21 Joe Orton: Anger, Artifice and Absurdity; 22 Alan Ayckbourn: Experiments in Comedy; 23 'They Both Add up to Me': The Logic of Tom Stoppard's Dialogic Comedy; 24 Stewart Parker's Comedy of Terrors; Part V War and Terror; 25 A Wounded Stage: Drama and World War I; 26 Staging 'the Holocaust' in England; 27 Troubling Perspectives: Northern Ireland, the 'Troubles' and Drama; 28 On War: Charles Wood's Military Conscience; 29 Torture in the Plays of Harold Pinter; 30 Sarah Kane: From Terror to Trauma; Part VI Theatre since 1968 31 Theatre since 196832 Lesbian and Gay Theatre: All Queer on the West End Front; 33 Edward Bond: Maker of Myths; 34 John McGrath and Popular Political Theatre; 35 David Hare and Political Playwriting: Between the Third Way and the Permanent Way; 36 Left in Front: David Edgar's Political Theatre; 37 Liz Lochhead: Writer and Re-Writer: Stories, Ancient and Modern; 38 'Spirits that Have Become Mean and Broken': Tom Murphy and the 'Famine' of Modern Ireland; 39 Caryl Churchill: Feeling Global; 40 Howard Barker and the Theatre of Catastrophe; 41 Reading History in the Plays of Brian Friel 42 Marina Carr: Violence and Destruction: Language, Space and Landscape43 Scrubbing up Nice? Tony Harrison's Stagings of the Past; 44 The Question of Multiculturalism: The Plays of Roy Williams; 45 Ed Thomas: Jazz Pictures in the Gaps of Language; 46 Theatre and Technology; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996213973903316 |
| Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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A companion to modern British and Irish drama, 1880-2005 / / edited by Mary Luckhurst
| A companion to modern British and Irish drama, 1880-2005 / / edited by Mary Luckhurst |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (604 p.) |
| Disciplina |
822.909
822/.9109 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | LuckhurstMary |
| Collana | Blackwell companions to literature and culture |
| Soggetto topico |
English drama - 20th century - History and criticism
English drama - Irish authors - History and criticism |
| ISBN |
1-78268-618-5
1-281-32236-9 9786611322366 1-4051-6552-9 0-470-75148-7 0-470-75147-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
A COMPANION TO MODERNBRITISH AND I RISHDRAMA; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Contexts; 1 Domestic and Imperial Politics in Britain and Ireland: The Testimony of Irish Theatre; 2 Reinventing England; 3 Ibsen in the English Theatre in the Fin de Siècle; 4 New Woman Drama; Part II Mapping New Ground, 1900-1939; 5 Shaw among the Artists; 6 Granville Barker and the Court Dramatists; 7 Gregory, Yeats and Ireland's Abbey Theatre; 8 Suffrage Theatre: Community Activism and Political Commitment; 9 Unlocking Synge Today
10 Sean O'Casey's Powerful Fireworks11 Auden and Eliot: Theatres of the Thirties; Part III England, Class and Empire, 1939-1990; 12 Empire and Class in the Theatre of John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy; 13 When Was the Golden Age? Narratives of Loss and Decline: John Osborne, Arnold Wesker and Rodney Ackland; 14 A Commercial Success: Women Playwrights in the 1950s; 15 Home Thoughts from Abroad: Mustapha Matura; 16 The Remains of the British Empire: The Plays of Winsome Pinnock; Part IV Comedy; 17 Wilde's Comedies; 18 Always Acting: Noël Coward and the Performing Self; 19 Beckett's Divine Comedy 20 Form and Ethics in the Comedies of Brendan Behan21 Joe Orton: Anger, Artifice and Absurdity; 22 Alan Ayckbourn: Experiments in Comedy; 23 'They Both Add up to Me': The Logic of Tom Stoppard's Dialogic Comedy; 24 Stewart Parker's Comedy of Terrors; Part V War and Terror; 25 A Wounded Stage: Drama and World War I; 26 Staging 'the Holocaust' in England; 27 Troubling Perspectives: Northern Ireland, the 'Troubles' and Drama; 28 On War: Charles Wood's Military Conscience; 29 Torture in the Plays of Harold Pinter; 30 Sarah Kane: From Terror to Trauma; Part VI Theatre since 1968 31 Theatre since 196832 Lesbian and Gay Theatre: All Queer on the West End Front; 33 Edward Bond: Maker of Myths; 34 John McGrath and Popular Political Theatre; 35 David Hare and Political Playwriting: Between the Third Way and the Permanent Way; 36 Left in Front: David Edgar's Political Theatre; 37 Liz Lochhead: Writer and Re-Writer: Stories, Ancient and Modern; 38 'Spirits that Have Become Mean and Broken': Tom Murphy and the 'Famine' of Modern Ireland; 39 Caryl Churchill: Feeling Global; 40 Howard Barker and the Theatre of Catastrophe; 41 Reading History in the Plays of Brian Friel 42 Marina Carr: Violence and Destruction: Language, Space and Landscape43 Scrubbing up Nice? Tony Harrison's Stagings of the Past; 44 The Question of Multiculturalism: The Plays of Roy Williams; 45 Ed Thomas: Jazz Pictures in the Gaps of Language; 46 Theatre and Technology; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910145286803321 |
| Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Modern drama and the rhetoric of theater / / W. B. Worthen
| Modern drama and the rhetoric of theater / / W. B. Worthen |
| Autore | Worthen William B. <1955-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 1992 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina | 822/.9109 |
| Soggetto topico |
English drama - 20th century - History and criticism
American drama - 20th century - History and criticism Theater - Production and direction - History - 20th century Theater - English-speaking countries - History - 20th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-520-96304-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Theater and the Scene of Vision -- 2. Actors and Objects -- 3. Scripted Bodies: Poetic Theater -- 4. Political Theater: Staging the Spectator -- Postscript. Sidi's Image: Theater and the Frame of Culture -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464201603321 |
Worthen William B. <1955->
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| Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 1992 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Modern drama and the rhetoric of theater / / W. B. Worthen
| Modern drama and the rhetoric of theater / / W. B. Worthen |
| Autore | Worthen William B. <1955-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 1992 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina | 822/.9109 |
| Soggetto topico |
English drama - 20th century - History and criticism
American drama - 20th century - History and criticism Theater - Production and direction - History - 20th century Theater - English-speaking countries - History - 20th century |
| Soggetto non controllato |
american drama
audience brecht british drama drama literary criticism modern theater oneill performance performing arts plays playwright poetic theater political theater postwar drama realistic theater rhetoric spectator stage drama stage production stage staging theater criticism theater history theater yeats |
| ISBN | 0-520-96304-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Theater and the Scene of Vision -- 2. Actors and Objects -- 3. Scripted Bodies: Poetic Theater -- 4. Political Theater: Staging the Spectator -- Postscript. Sidi's Image: Theater and the Frame of Culture -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788157503321 |
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Worthen William B. <1955->
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| Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 1992 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Modern drama and the rhetoric of theater / / W. B. Worthen
| Modern drama and the rhetoric of theater / / W. B. Worthen |
| Autore | Worthen William B. <1955-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 1992 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina | 822/.9109 |
| Soggetto topico |
English drama - 20th century - History and criticism
American drama - 20th century - History and criticism Theater - Production and direction - History - 20th century Theater - English-speaking countries - History - 20th century |
| Soggetto non controllato |
american drama
audience brecht british drama drama literary criticism modern theater oneill performance performing arts plays playwright poetic theater political theater postwar drama realistic theater rhetoric spectator stage drama stage production stage staging theater criticism theater history theater yeats |
| ISBN | 0-520-96304-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Theater and the Scene of Vision -- 2. Actors and Objects -- 3. Scripted Bodies: Poetic Theater -- 4. Political Theater: Staging the Spectator -- Postscript. Sidi's Image: Theater and the Frame of Culture -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811792303321 |
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Worthen William B. <1955->
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| Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 1992 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Modern drama and the rhetoric of theater / / W.B. Worthen [[electronic resource]]
| Modern drama and the rhetoric of theater / / W.B. Worthen [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Worthen William B. <1955-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1992 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 230 p. ) |
| Disciplina | 822/.9109 |
| Soggetto topico |
English drama - 20th century - History and criticism
American drama - 20th century - History and criticism Theater - Production and direction - History - 20th century Theater - English-speaking countries - History - 20th century |
| ISBN | 0-585-28098-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chekhov's camera : the rhetoric of stage realism -- Invisible women : problem drama, 1890-1920 -- Invisible actors : O'Neill, the Method, and the masks of "character" -- Visible scenes : American realism and the absent audience -- Empty spaces and the power of privacy : Pinter, Shepard, and Bond -- Poetic theater and the work of acting -- The discipline of speech : Yeats's dance drama -- The discipline of performance : The dance of death and Murder in the cathedral -- The discipline of the text : Beckett's theater -- Transforming the field of theater -- Breaking the frame of history : Hitler dances and The Churchill play -- History and the frame of genre : Laughter! and Poppy -- Framing gender : Cloud nine and Fefu and her friends -- Postscript : Sidi's image : theater and the frame of culture. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910495867803321 |
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Worthen William B. <1955->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1992 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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