The Contemporary American Dramatic Trilogy : A Critical Study

Andreach, Robert J.

McFarland & Co Inc（2012/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 199 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786470976
• DDC分類 812.5409

Full Description

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 book analyzes recent American works by Caucasian, African American, Asian American, and Hispanic American men and women. There are five chapters beginning with Opposing Families (trilogies of, e.g., Lanford Wilson, Foote, Machado, and McCraney are examined). Carson, Rabe, and McLaughlin are among those in the Classical Reimaginings chapter while Coen, Berc, and Wolfe constitute the Medieval Reimaginings chapter. Van Itallie, Havis, Rapp, and Hwang, among others, create New Forms. LaBute, Fierstein, and Nelson, among others, create New Selves. The concluding chapter is devoted to Ruhl's Passion Play, which spans 400 years of theatre-creating from Elizabethan England to Hitler's Germany to the Reagan era in America.

Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     

Introduction: Triptych, Performance Art and Trilogy     

One: Opposing Families     

Two: Classical Reimaginings     

Three: Medieval Reimaginings     

Four: New Forms     

Five: New Selves     

Conclusion: Passion Play     

Notes     

Bibliography     

Index