Kernan Character & Conflict 2e
The Un Saddest Factory Presents Ten Minute Play Festival
by Un Saddest Factory
Modern and Contemporary Drama
by University Miriam Gilbert, Professor Emeritus of English Carl H Klaus, and Bradford S Field
FIVE PLAYS for Young Audiences from the New Hampshire Theatre Project (Theatre for Young Audiences, #1)
by Michael Megliola, Jes Marbacher, and Genevieve Aichele
Lionel Abel's original Metatheatre, now published in the company of new essays, has inspired a whole generation of playwrights and critics since it first appeared in 1963. Indeed, to insiders the very word 'metatheatre', coined by Lionel Abel, has become as familiar as the plays the author uses to exemplify his theory. Abel's basic premise is that "tragedy is difficult if not altogether impossible for the modern dramatist." Having identified the modern, existential dilemma (for both playwright a...
The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
by Xiaomei Chen
The first of its kind in English, this anthology translates twenty-two popular Chinese plays published between 1919 and 2000, accompanied by a critical introduction to the historical, cultural, and aesthetic evolution of twentieth-century Chinese spoken drama. Primarily comprising works from the People's Republic of China, though including representative plays from Hong Kong and Taiwan, this collection not only showcases the revolutionary rethinking of Chinese theater and performance that began...
Japanese no theatre or the drama of 'perfected art' flourished in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries largely through the genius of the dramatist Zeami. An intricate fusion of music, dance, mask, costume and language, the dramas address many subjects, but the idea of 'form' is more central than 'meaning' and their structure is always ritualized. Selected for their literary merit, the twenty-four plays in this volume dramatize such ideas as the relationship between men and the gods, brother an...
The Lontar Anthology of Indonesian Drama Volume 1
The popular stages of Indonesia offer a window to inter-ethnic cultural obsessions and signs of participation in global trends. Volume 1 of the Lontar Anthology of Indonesian Drama brings together representative plays from the 1890s until the 1960s. It includes examples from the diverse genres that make up Indonesian popular theater: komedi stambul, a form of musical theater initially dedicated to the Arabian Nights; opera derma or Chinese-Indonesian 'charity opera'; and tonil, theatre in the mo...
British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue (British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue, VI)
by Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson
This is the third volume of a detailed play-by-play catalogue of drama written by English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish authors during the 110 years between the English Reformation to the English Revolution. The catalogue covers every known play, extant and lost, including some which have never before been identified. It is based on a new, complete, and systematic survey of the whole of this body of work, and is presented in chronological order. Each entry contains comprehensive information abou...
Methuen Drama Anthology of Testimonial Plays (Play Anthologies)
by Tim Etchells, Alecky Blythe, Meron Langsner, Denise Uyehara, Noah Birksted-Breen, Anna Deavere Smith, and Mar Lorenzini
This diverse anthology features eight contemporary plays founded in testimonies from across the world. Showcasing challenging and provocative works of theatre, the collection also provides a clear insight into the workings of the genre through author interviews, introductions from the companies and performance images which illustrate the process of creating each piece. Bystander 9/11 by Meron Langsner is an impressionistic but wholly authentic response to the catastrophe as it unfolded and in t...