Anthology of background material for plays in Drama and Revolution.

Documents for Drama and Revolution

DUKORE, Bernard F.

Harcourt College Publications

The chief purpose of this book is to make available the major documents in dramatic theory. Some are important historically, some intrinsically; others have both historic and intrinsic value. Apart from presenting such writings by dramatic theorists and critics, the book also aims to offer works by philosophers, psychologists, and social theorists, and by dramatic authors. The selections include theories and analyses of the major, traditional dramatic genres, from ancient to modern times, and of modern genres, forms of drama, and conceptions of theatre. It is a thread that may be traced throughout the anthology. Another thread is a contrast between traditional and more 'avant garde' dramas. In addition, there is discussion of social contexts and resonances of the drama, dramatic action and playwriting, dramatic illusion, and Shakespearean criticism.

Dramatic Theory and Criticism: Greeks to Grotowski

holt,rinehart,and winston inc

Examines fourteen of Sam Peckinpah's feature films, focusing on the director's editing techniques, approach to power, attention to violence and affection, and moral values, along with pacing and mood in his film directing

Sam Peckinpah's Feature Films

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

University of Illinois Press

One of the greatest film directors America has produced, Sam Peckinpah revolutionized the way movies were made. In this detailed and insightful study, Bernard F. Dukore examines Peckinpah's fourteen feature films as a coherent body of work. He investigates the director's virtuosic editing techniques, thematic preoccupations that persist from his earliest to his last films, and the structure of his dramatic depiction of violence. He also addresses Peckinpah's cognizance of existentialism and the substantial traces this interest has left in the films. At the heart of Dukore's study is an extensive and detailed examination of Peckinpah's distinctive editing techniques. Focusing on representative sequences--including the breakout from the bank and the final battle in The Wild Bunch, the half-hour siege that concludes Straw Dogs, the killing of the title characters of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and combat sequences in Cross of Iron--Dukore provides a shot-by-shot analysis that illuminates Peckinpah's mastery of pacing and mood. Sam Peckinpah's Feature Films demonstrates that Peckinpah's genius as a director and editor marks not only The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs, and other classics but also his lesser-known feature films, even those that suffered substantial cuts at the hands of studio producers. Dukore's organic approach to the feature films reveals a highly unified body of work that remains a pointed commentary on power, violence, affection, and moral values.

By common consent, Bernard Shaw is the best drama critic in the English language, and certainly the most incandescent. Shaw wrote about drama professionally for seventy-one years, from 1880, when he wrote a review of Henry Irving's production of The Merchant of Venice, to 1950, when he debated Terence Rattigan on ideas in the drama. Shaw commented on a wide range of drama, including that of ancient Greece, Elizabethan England, traditional Japan, and modern Europe; and he examined drama in the widest sense of the term, including pantomime plays and silent movies, radio and talking movies, and television. Among the characteristics of Shavian dramatic criticism is an astonishingly wide range of literary, social, and popular allusions whose sources Shaw does not usually announce but which The Drama Observed annotates. Shakespeare, Dickens, and the Bible appear most frequently, but Shaw also mentions a myriad of other sources. In one case, he compares Homer's description of the battle between Achilles and Asteropaios to an account of a boxing match in an 1859 magazine. In another, using a phrase that his readers would understand, he likens an actress's costume to that of a waitress in an Aerated Bread shop. A single paragraph in one review refers to the American debate about the gold and silver standards, a Dickensian character, a Scottish-American grammarian, a theologian, a Christian socialist, an art critic, and a fraudulent financier. Such references are annotated to provide today's readers a cultural context and a framework that explains Shaw's meaning. The Drama Observed contains 318 separate items, arranged chronologically, of which 100 are new to today's readers: 85 unpublished since their first, sometimes anonymous appearance, 12 published for the first time, and 3 published in full for the first time. Included are The Quintessence of Ibsenism and all Shaw's reviews published in The Saturday Review. A comprehensive essay introduces the seven decades of Shaw's criticism.

The Drama Observed: Bernard Shaw. 4 Vols.

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Penn State University Press

American Dramatists 1918-1945: Excluding O'Neill

History & Criticism

Palgrave HE UK

This biography is one of a series of introductions to major 19th and 20th century dramatists, aiming to reveal Pinter's dramatic and theatrical strategems and his place in contemporary drama. There are five chapters devoted to his plays and their performance. The author has also written "American Dramatists"(1918-1945), "Where Laughter Stops", "Pinter's Tragicomedy", "Dramatic Theory and Criticism", "Bernard Shaw Playwright" and "Bernard Shaw Director".

Harold Pinter (Modern Dramatists)

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

An examination of two of America's best-known plays. Part 1 revolves around the key aspects of the plays' relationship to America, and in Part 2 special emphasis is placed on the Broadway productions of "Death of a Salesman" in 1949 and the 1953, 1965 and 1980 productions of "The Crucible".

Death of a Salesman and the Crucible (Text and Performance)

Literary

Humanities Pr

Harold Pinter (Grove Press Modern Dramatists)

Grove / Evergreen

American Dramatists, 1918-1945 (Grove Press Modern Dramatists)

History

Grove Pr

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Documents for Drama and Revolution

Dramatic Theory and Criticism: Greeks to Grotowski

Sam Peckinpah's Feature Films

Sam Peckinpah's Feature Films

The Drama Observed: Bernard Shaw. 4 Vols.

American Dramatists 1918-1945: Excluding O'Neill

Harold Pinter (Modern Dramatists)

Death of a Salesman and the Crucible (Text and Performance)

Harold Pinter (Grove Press Modern Dramatists)

American Dramatists, 1918-1945 (Grove Press Modern Dramatists)