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Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1990s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations

Hardback

Main Details

Title Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1990s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Sharon Friedman
By (author) Cheryl Black
Series edited by Brenda Murphy
Series edited by Professor Julia Listengarten
SeriesDecades of Modern American Drama: Playwriting from the 1930s to 2009
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:336
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreDrama
Literary studies - plays and playwrights
ISBN/Barcode 9781472572479
ClassificationsDewey:812.5409
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publication Date 22 August 2019
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The Decades of Modern American Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major playwrights and their plays to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * Tony Kushner: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part One and Part Two (1991), Slavs! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness (1995) and A Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds (1997); * Paula Vogel: Baltimore Waltz (1992), The Mineola Twins (1996) and How I Learned to Drive (1997); * Suzan-Lori Parks: The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (1990), The America Play (1994) and Venus (1996); * Terrence McNally: Lips Together, Teeth Apart (1991), Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997) and Corpus Christi (1998).

Author Biography

Sharon Friedman is Associate Professor of Literature and Drama at the Gallatin School, New York University, USA. She is the editor of Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works (2008) and author of numerous essays on twentieth century drama. Cheryl Black is Professor of Theatre at the University of Missouri, Columbia, USA. She is the author of The Women of Provincetown, 1915-1922 (2002) and has written widely on twentieth-century drama and performance.

Reviews

The story has been greatly helped by the efforts of superb joint editors. Not only have they managed to encapsulate the decade in their own writing but also selected impressively qualified experts to enthuse about the four chosen playwrights. * British Theatre Guide *