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Robert J. Andreach
From the 1960s to the present day, John Guare’s plays have ranged from one-act to cyclic, realistic to surrealistic, naturalistic to experimental, and tragic to comic dramas. This study’s approach…
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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 analyses recent American works by…
The book applies playwright John Guare’s statement that, the war against naturalism, is the history of the American theatre in the Twentieth-Century to selected plays by important contemporary American playwrights…
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This book examines plays by contemporary playwrights and compares them alongside the works of Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams. Andreach argues that tragedy is not only present in…
Argues that the contemporary American theatre merits appreciation for dramatizing experiences in genres that jostle the audience into thinking about the experiences in new ways, based on five units of…
The Stages of the Spiritual Life in Four Modern Authors - G.M.Hopkins, James Joyce, T.S.Eliot and Hart Crane
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Contemporary American theatre re-creates and invokes classical theatre so as to generate interaction between the two theatres. Using selected works of fourteen playwrights, this book organizes the interaction into three…
Beth Henley remains best known for Crimes of the Heart , a play that won the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and later was made…
