| The Contemporary American Dramatic Trilogy: A Critical Study Contributor(s): Andreach, Robert J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0786470976 ISBN-13: 9780786470976 Publisher: McFarland & Company OUR PRICE: $54.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - General - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 812.509 |
| LCCN: 2012014678 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.60 lbs) 199 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The dramatic trilogy has been flourishing for some time now in new works and revivals of older works by American, British, and European playwrights. This book analyzes recent American works by Caucasian, African American, Asian American, and Hispanic American men and women. There are five chapters beginning with Opposing Families (trilogies of, e.g., Lanford Wilson, Foote, Machado, and McCraney are examined). Carson, Rabe, and McLaughlin are among those in the Classical Reimaginings chapter while Coen, Berc, and Wolfe constitute the Medieval Reimaginings chapter. Van Itallie, Havis, Rapp, and Hwang, among others, create New Forms. LaBute, Fierstein, and Nelson, among others, create New Selves. The concluding chapter is devoted to Ruhl's Passion Play, which spans 400 years of theatre-creating from Elizabethan England to Hitler's Germany to the Reagan era in America. |