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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
C W E Bigsby |
| ISBN: | 0521790891 9780521790895 0521794102 9780521794107 |
| OCLC Number: | 43648629 |
| Description: | xii, 453 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The absent voice: American drama and the critic -- Eugene O'Neill's Endgame -- Tennessee Williams: the theatricalising self -- Arthur Miller: the moral imperative -- Edward Albee: journey to apocalypse -- A Broadway interlude -- Sam Shepard: imagining America -- David Mamet: all true stories -- The performing self -- Redefining the centre: politics, race, gender -- Beyond Broadway. |
| Responsibility: | C.W.E. Bigsby. |
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From the first edition: 'This is both a biographical history of the American playwrights treated, and a highly perceptive factual rendering of the development of American drama in the past half century. I believe it will be invaluable both for its insights into plays and authors and the interplay of social forces working through them ... Bigsby has, in effect, read the evolving American spirit through its theatre. It is a work of enormous encyclopaedic breadth, reaching out into the myriad byways of American theatre, encompassing all its styles and approaches, but always with an eye to the central preoccupation of all serious theatre, the nation's mysterious soul.' Arthur Miller Read more...
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