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Author
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Provides analysis of American playwrights whose works have a strong feminist message. Covers four eras, including feminist dramatists of colonial America, the suffrage plays of the early women's movement, the social protest dramas of the 1920s and 1930s, and the plays advocating equal rights from the late 1960s onward.
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service, Inc
Pub. Date
c1969
Language
English
Description
An acting edition of the 1939 drama in which brothers Oscar and Ben Hubbard steal money from their ailing brother-in-law in order to fund a cotton mill, only to be caught by their sister Regina who demands they give her a seventy-five percent share of the business in exchange for keeping them out of prison.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Other Voices, Other Lives is a selection of poems, plays, and interviews drawn from over forty years of work by one of America's most beloved and influential women of letters. Grace Cavalieri writes of women's lives, loves, and work in a multitude of voices, alternately sassy, rebellious, seductive, grieving, and wise. Selections from her plays show her to be as insightful about men as she is about women, bringing both historical and contemporary...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the late 60s, Ntozake Shange was a young student at Barnard College discovering her budding talent as a writer, publishing in her school's literary journal, and finding her unique voice. By the time she left us in 2018, Shange had scorched blazing trails across countless pages and stages, redefining genre and form as we know it. Sing a Black Girl's Song is a new posthumous collection of unpublished works from throughout the life of this seminal...
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"George, a disillusioned academic, and Martha, his caustic wife, have just come home from a faculty party. When a handsome young professor and his mousy wife stop by for a nightcap, an innocent night of fun and games quickly turns dark and dangerous. Long-buried resentment and rage are unleashed as George and Martha turn their rapier-sharp wits against each other, using their guests as pawns in their verbal sparring. By night's end, the secrets of...
Author
Language
English
Description
"This is a chronological review of both the plays and the people that brought the world of homosexuals, bisexuals, transexuals, metrosexuals, and the sexually fluid to the American stage. The plays--which take in a few foreign imports--treat strong gay content (e. g., The Boys in the Band or The Killing of Sister George), or minor gay content (Season In the Sun, The Nervous Set), or even a phrase in passing (as in New Faces of 1956's joke about Rome's...
9) Drama for students: Volume 30 :presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.
10) Drama for students: Volume 29 :presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; understandable essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary.
11) Drama for students: Volume 28 :presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.
12) Drama for students: Volume 27 :presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing, Melcher Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Go behind the scenes with photography, original interviews with the cast, crew, Alanis Morissette, and Diablo Cody, and an introduction from Morissette herself on the album's genesis and journey from release to musical -- including details and anecdotes on her collaboration on the show. Including the full annotated libretto and a retrospective look at Alanis's artistic influences and the significance of the album within the cultural context of the...
Publisher
California Newsreel
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This documentary sheds valuable light on all aspects of Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, including the daunting challenge of securing investment and a venue for this production about a working class Black family, the casting process, artistic debates and finally its public reception. The film features interviews with the play's original cast members, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Louis Gossett, Jr. and Glynn Turman, director Lloyd Richards,...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For readers of Hidden Figures and Something Wonderful, Footnotes is the story of New York in the roaring twenties and the first Broadway show with an all-Black cast and creative team to achieve success--and its impact on our popular culture. Amidst a culture actively whitewashing, controlling, or trying to prevent their stories from being told, these artists changed the course of American entertainment. This groundbreaking group of performers and...
16) Drama for students: Volume 17 :presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.
17) Drama for students: Volume 18 :presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.
18) Drama for students: Volume 19 :presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.
19) Drama for students: Volume 25 :presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; understandable essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary.
20) Drama for students: Volume 24 :presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; understandable essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary.
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