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1 online resource (xviii, 351 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
This engrossing book presents the first collection in more than three decades of one of America's finest drama critics. Richard Gilman chronicles a major period in American theatre history, one that witnessed the birth or spread of Off-Broadway, regional theatre, nonprofit companies, and avant-garde performance, as well as growing interest in plays by women and minorities and in world drama. His writing, however, is more than a revealing look at an era. It is criticism for the ages. Insightful, provocative, and impassioned, the articles represent the full range of Gilman's interests. There are essays, profiles, and book reviews dealing with such topics as the "new naturalism" in theatre, Brecht's collected plays, and the legacy of Stanislavski. There is also a generous sampling of Gilman's comments on plays by O'Neill, Miller, Chekhov, Albee, Ibsen, Anouilh, Beckett, Ionesco, Pinter, Fugard, and many others. |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Foreword by Gordon Rogoff""; ""About Richard Gilman""; ""Part I. Essays and Articles""; ""The Drama Is Coming Now (1963)""; ""British Theater: Kinky, Arrogant, and Frankly Magnificent (1966)""; ""Growing Out of the Sixties (1971)""; ""Broadway Critics Meet Uncle Vanya (1974)""; ""The New German Playwrights: Franz Xaver Kroetz (1976)""; ""How the New Theatrical Directors Are Upstaging the Playwright (1977)""; ""Out Goes Absurdism�In Comes the New Naturalism (1978)""; ""The New American Playwrights: Sam Shepard (1981)""; ""Part II. Production Criticism""; ""American Drama"" |
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""Brecht and German""""Russian and Scandinavian""; ""French Matters""; ""Shakespeare to Shaw""; ""Beckett, Pinter, and English""; ""Part III. Book Reviews""; ""George Steiner�s The Death of Tragedy (1961)""; ""Lionel Abel�s Metatheatre (1963)""; ""Eug�ne Ionesco�s Notes and Counter Notes (1964)""; ""Eric Bentley�s The Life of the Drama and Robert Brustein�s The Theatre of Revolt (1964)""; ""Herbert Blau�s The Impossible Theater (1964)""; ""Jerzy Grotowski�s Towards a Poor Theatre (1970)""; ""Martin Esslin�s The Peopled Wound: The Work of Harold Pinter (1970)"" |
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""Bertolt Brecht: Collected Plays, Edited by Ralph Manheim and John Willett (1971)""""The Letters of Sean O�Casey, Edited by David Krause (1975)""; ""Henrik Ibsen: The Complete Major Prose Plays, Translated and Introduced by Rolf Fjelde (1978)""; ""Margaret Brenman-Gibson�s Clifford Odets: American Playwright, The Years from 1906 to 1940 (1981)""; ""Arthur Miller�s Timebends: A Life (1988)""; ""Part IV. Profiles and Legacies""; ""Bertolt Brecht Once Again (1978)""; ""Appraising Stanislavsky�s Legacy Today (1982)"" |
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""Jest, Satire, Irony, and Deeper Meaning: Thirty Years of Off-Broadway (1985)""""Jean Genet, 1910�1986 (1986)""; ""Eric Bentley ... and Me (1986)""; """"A Man Misunderstood in the Midst of Fame�: Henrik Ibsen (1986)""; ""The Second Coming of Tennessee Williams, 1911�1983 (1990)""; ""Joseph Chaikin: Seeking the Words to Recapture a Past and Shape a Future (1991)""; ""Index"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Theater -- United States -- Reviews.
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Theater. |
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United States. |
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Reviews.
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Electronic books.
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Reviews.
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| Added Author |
Rogoff, Gordon, 1931-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gilman, Richard, 1923-2006. Drama is coming now. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2005 0300100469 9780300100464 (DLC) 2003057638 (OCoLC)52895925 |
| ISBN |
9780300133035 (electronic book) |
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0300133030 (electronic book) |
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9780300100464 |
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0300100469 |
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1281731234 |
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9781281731234 |
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