The drama is coming now : the theater criticism of Richard Gilman, 1961-1991 /

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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-...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gilman, Richard, 1923-2006
Otros Autores: Rogoff, Gordon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2005.
Temas:
Theater > United States > Reviews.
Théâtre > États-Unis > Comptes rendus.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > History & Criticism.
DRAMA > General.
Theater
United States
Review
reviews (documents)
Reviews
Reviews.
Comptes rendus.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Absurdismâ€?In Comes the New Naturalism (1978)
  • The New American Playwrights: Sam Shepard (1981)
  • Part II. Production Criticism
  • American Drama
  • Brecht and GermanRussian and Scandinavian
  • French Matters
  • Shakespeare to Shaw
  • Beckett, Pinter, and English
  • Part III. Book Reviews
  • George Steinerâ€?s The Death of Tragedy (1961)
  • Lionel Abelâ€?s Metatheatre (1963)
  • EugÃ?ne Ionescoâ€?s Notes and Counter Notes (1964)
  • Eric Bentleyâ€?s The Life of the Drama and Robert Brusteinâ€?s The Theatre of Revolt (1964)
  • Herbert Blauâ€?s The Impossible Theater (1964)
  • Jerzy Grotowskiâ€?s Towards a Poor Theatre (1970)
  • Martin Esslinâ€?s The Peopled Wound: The Work of Harold Pinter (1970)
  • Bertolt Brecht: Collected Plays, Edited by Ralph Manheim and John Willett (1971)The Letters of Sean Oâ€?Casey, Edited by David Krause (1975)
  • Henrik Ibsen: The Complete Major Prose Plays, Translated and Introduced by Rolf Fjelde (1978)
  • Margaret Brenman-Gibsonâ€?s Clifford Odets: American Playwright, The Years from 1906 to 1940 (1981)
  • Arthur Millerâ€?s Timebends: A Life (1988)
  • Part IV. Profiles and Legacies
  • Bertolt Brecht Once Again (1978)
  • Appraising Stanislavskyâ€?s Legacy Today (1982)
  • Jest, Satire, Irony, and Deeper Meaning: Thirty Years of Off-Broadway (1985)Jean Genet, 1910â€?1986 (1986)
  • Eric Bentley ... and Me (1986)
  • A Man Misunderstood in the Midst of Fameâ€?: Henrik Ibsen (1986)
  • The Second Coming of Tennessee Williams, 1911â€?1983 (1990)
  • Joseph Chaikin: Seeking the Words to Recapture a Past and Shape a Future (1991)
  • Index

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