[PDF] The American Stage eBook

Author : Helene P. Foley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,7 MB
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0520283872

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This book explores the emergence of Greek tragedy on the American stage from the nineteenth century to the present. Despite the gap separating the world of classical Greece from our own, Greek tragedy has provided a fertile source for some of the most innovative American theater. Helene P. Foley shows how plays like Oedipus Rex and Medea have resonated deeply with contemporary concerns and controversies—over war, slavery, race, the status of women, religion, identity, and immigration. Although Greek tragedy was often initially embraced for its melodramatic possibilities, by the twentieth century it became a vehicle not only for major developments in the history of American theater and dance but also for exploring critical tensions in American cultural and political life. Drawing on a wide range of sources—archival, video, interviews, and reviews—Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage provides the most comprehensive treatment of the subject available.

Author : Henry Bial
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,81 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472069088

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Author : John W. Frick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,91 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137566450

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No play in the history of the American Stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin . This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduce the reader to the artists who created the plays and productions that created theatre history.

Author : Laurence Hutton
Publisher : New York Harper 1891.
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,92 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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Examines and critiques American theater and actors.

Author : Donatella Galella
Publisher : Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 39,5 MB
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1609386256

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More than a chronicle, America in the Round is a critical history that reveals how far Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage could go with its budget and racially liberal politics, and how Arena both disputed and duplicated systems of power. With an innovative "in the round" approach, the narrative simulates sitting in different parts of the arena space to see the theatre through different lenses--economics, racial dynamics, and American identity.

Author : Barbara Wallace Grossman
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 15,13 MB
Release : 2009-02-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809328828

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Once called "America's greatest actress," renowned for the passion and power of her performances, Clara Morris (1847-1925) has been largely forgotten. A Spectacle of Suffering: Clara Morris on the American Stage is the first full-length study of the actress's importance as a feminist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Detailing her daunting health problems and the changing tastes in entertainment that led to her retirement from the stage, Barbara Wallace Grossman explores Morris's dramatic reinvention as an author. During a second robust career, she published hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles and nine books—six works of fiction and three memoirs. Grossman draws on the fifty-four-volume diary that Morris kept from 1868 until 1924, as well as on the manuscript fragments and notes of journalist George T. MacAdam, who died in 1929 before completing the actress's biography. Grossman provides a dramatic account of Morris's life and work from her troubled early years, through an unhappy marriage, morphine addiction, and invalidism, to the challenges of touring, the decline of her artistic reputation, and the demands of the writing career she pursued so tenaciously. A Spectacle of Suffering reveals how Morris, even after experiencing blindness and the loss of her home, livelihood, and family, did not succumb to despair and found comfort in the small pleasures of her circumscribed life. A Spectacle of Suffering recovers an important figure in American theatre and ensures that Morris will be remembered not simply as an actress but as a respected writer and beloved public figure, admired for her courage in dealing with adversity. The book, which is enhanced by twenty-four illustrations, is the only published biography of Clara Morris. It is as much a tribute to the power of the human spirit as it is an effective means of exploring American theatre and society in the Gilded Age.

Author : Ron Engle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,18 MB
Release : 1993-05-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521412384

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This book focuses on the economic and social forces which shaped American theatre throughout its history. Alone or as a collection, these essays, written by leading theatre historians and critics of the American theatre, will stimulate discussions concerning the traditionally held views of America's theatrical heritage.