Fifteen distinguished scholars contribute original essays that analyze A Streetcar Named Desire from various critical or cultural stances, methods, or modalities. Represented are the theories of Lacan
"This fascinating work will prove valuable for collections in film, theater history, and Shakespearean production. . . . The book includes fascinating production photos and helpful notes in which the
Working from the premise that the stage performer's primary functions derive from celebrative rituals, this book describes the figure of the actor as "anti-character" in premodern popular theatre. Par
Part of Dublin dramatist Sean O'Casey's talent was to edit and distill ordinary Dublin working-class speech in order to produce dialogue that was exceptionally rich. This study shows how and why an or
No play has enjoyed a richer and more varied performance history than Shakespeare's Richard III. Among the actors who have left memorable marks on the role of Richard of Gloucester are David Garrick,
To understand Eliot's weighty contribution to the pantheon of modernism, one must take account of his dramatic career. Where the Words Are Valid brings to modernist scholars' serious attention a large
Gower Champion's career spanned the years during which American musical theatre was transformed from a crude popular entertainment into a sophisticated art form. As the director and choreographer of H
The volume treats the reader to a comprehensive view of American commercial theater and how it operates. It provides a unique view of what some of the movers and shakers in the commercial theater thin
"Demastes, in his interesting study of the work of David Rabe, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Charles Fuller, Beth Henley, and Marsha Norman, examines how these playwrights utilize the realist format to re
An account of the history of the Arbeter Teater Farband (Artef), a New York-based Yiddish worker art theater that operated within the orbit of American Jewish communism principally during the Depressi
A biographically based study of George Bernard Shaw and his milieu, this book offers a non-laudatory reading of Shaw's economic practices and theories, augments feminist and postcolonial critiques tha
"A well-documented survey of more than half a century of American plays dealing with issues of race, war, economic class, and gender. . . . In all, very much a book of our times, which even manages to
Clifford Odets, one of the 20th century's leading American playwrights, was a fervent believer in democracy and the human ability to overcome obstacles. Yet his legacy has been overshadowed by persist
As the world's greatest author, Shakespeare has attracted attention from scholars and laypersons alike. But more and more people have questioned whether the historical Shakespeare wrote the plays popu
"A wonderfully helpful survey of the drama of Sam Shepard. It is bound to find many eager readers among those who are either intrigued or baffled--or both--by the plays of this still-young playwright
A theatrical biography of Voltaire, whose career provides insights into the theatrical culture not only of France, but of much of eighteenth century Europe.