Modern Dramatists: A Casebook of Major British, Irish, and American Playwrights

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ISBN: 9780815339267 | 0815339267
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Copyright: 3/14/2001

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This comprehensive collection gathers critical essays on the major works of the foremost American and British playwrights of the 20th century, written by leading figures in drama/performance studies. It is the ideal reference for the classroom, for independent research, and for a general overview of the field.

General Editor's Note

Introduction

List of Articles

xix

Who Wrote ``John Arden's'' Plays?

(18)

Tish Dace

Ayckbourn's Theatricality

(14)

Bernard F. Dukore

Empire of Light: Luminosity and Space in Beckett's Theater

(16)

William E. Gruber

The Romans in Britain: Aspirations and Anxieties of a Radical Playwright

(12)

Robert F. Gross

Monsters and Heroines: Caryl Churchill's Women

(14)

Lisa Merrill

More Real than Realism: Horton Foote's Impressionism

(18)

Tim Wright

Negotiating History, Negotiating Myth: Friel among His Contemporaries

(14)

Claire Gleitman

Hedda's Children: Simon Gray's Anti-heroes

107

(10)

Katherine H. Burkman

Romanticism and Reaction: Hampton's Transformation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses

117

(16)

Stephanie Barbe Hammer

Playing with Place: Some Filmic Techniques in the Plays of David Hare

133

(20)

John Russell Brown

Master Class and the Paradox of the Diva

153

(14)

Cary M. Mazer

Phallus in Wonderland: Machismo and Business in David Mamet's American Buffalo and Glengarry Glen Ross

167

(10)

Hersh Zeifman

A Place at the Table: Hunger as Metaphor in Lillian Hellman's Days to Come and Marsha Norman's night, Mother

177

(20)

Linda Ginter Brown

The Personal, the Political, and the Postmodern in Osborne's Look Back in Anger and Dejavu

197

(22)

Austin E. Quigley

The Dumb Waiter, The Collection, The Lover, and The Homecoming: A Revisionist Approach

219

(10)

George E. Wellwarth

What's Wrong with this Picture? David Rabe's Comic-Strip Plays

229

(12)

Toby Silverman Zinman

The Artistic Trajectory of Peter Shaffer

241

(16)

C. J. Gianakaris

Great Expectations: Language and the Problem of Presence in Sam Shepard's Writing

257

(16)

Ann Wilson

Funny Money in New York and London: Neil Simon and Alan Ayckbourn

273

(20)

Ruby Cohn

Broadway Babies: Images of Women in the Musicals of Stephen Sondheim

293

(18)

Laura Hanson

From Zurich to Brazil with Tom Stoppard

311

(14)

Felicia Hardison Londre

David Storey's Aesthetic of ``Invisible Events''

325

(14)

William Hutchings

Female Laughter and Comic Possibilities: Uncommon Women and Others

339

(22)

Miriam M. Chirico

Vision and Reality: Their Very Own and Golden City and Centre 42

361

(8)

Clive Barker

August Wilson's Folk Traditions

369

(14)

Trudier Harris

The Artist in the Garden: Theatre Space and Place in Lanford Wilson

383

Thomas P. Adler

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Modern Dramatists: A Casebook of Major British, Irish, and American Playwrights

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