Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 dramatists by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Among those profiled in this volume are: Arthur Miller August Wilson Sarah Kane
Makers of Modern Theatre by Robert LeachWho were the giants of the twentieth-century stage, and exactly how did they influence modern theatre?Robert Leach's Makers of Modern Theatre is the first detailed introduction to the work of the key theatre-makers who shaped the drama of the last century: Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Bertolt Brecht and Antonin Artaud.Leach focuses on the major issues which relate to their dominance of theatre history:•What was significant in their life and times?•What is their main legacy?•What were their dramatic philosophies and practices?•How have their ideas been adapted since their deaths?•What are the current critical perspectives on their work?Never before has so much essential information on the making of twentieth-century theatre been compiled in one brilliantly concise, beautifully illustrated book. This is a genuinely insightful volume by one of the foremost theatre historians of our age.
ISBN: 9780415312400
Nine Modern American Plays [e-book]The hairy ape, by E. O'Neill.--Street scene, by E.L. Rice.--Green grow the lilacs, by L. Riggs.--High Tor, by M. Anderson.--Stage door, by E. Ferber and G.S. Kaufman.--You can't take it with you, by M. Hart and G.S. Kaufman.--Abe Lincoln in Illinois, by R.E. Sherwood.--The glass menagerie, by T. Williams.--Command decision, by W.W. Haines.--Supplementary reading (p. 430)--Plays by dramatists in this volume (p. 431-432).