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John Houchin explores the impact of censorship in twentieth-century American theatre, arguing that theatrical censorship coincided with significant challenges to religious, political and cultural systems. The study provides a summary of theatre...

This is the first full production history of Long Day's Journey Into Night, by Eugene O'Neill, one of the most influential plays of the twentieth century. It provides a detailed account of the most significant productions throughout the world, on stage,...

This is the first full production history of Long Day's Journey Into Night, by Eugene O'Neill, one of the most influential plays of the twentieth century. It provides a detailed account of the most significant productions throughout the world, on stage,...

This book proposes a correlation between the divided 'mind' of America during the Depression and popular stage works of the era. Theatre works such as Jack Kirkland's comic-horrific adaptation of Tobacco Road, Olsen and Johnson's 'scream-lined revue',...

The recent rise in publications and professional productions of Native American plays moves Native theatre from specific, cultural communities into larger, more generalized audiences, who quickly discover that Native plays are uniquely different from...

An account of contemporary theater practice in its most collaborative and dynamic form, this 2006 book was the first book-length study of two of the most important American theater artists at the start of the twenty-first century. For twenty-five years,...

A cofounder of the Provincetown Players - the group that acted as midwife to the American theatre - Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) can also lay claim to be a major figure in her own right. Her early plays were in many respects as challenging and original as...

In this book Adam Versenyi explores the history of Latin American Theatre from pre-Columbian days to contemporary drama. Theatre in Latin America has historically been a powerful force for social change and has frequently combined religious and political...

John Houchin explores the impact of censorship in twentieth-century American theatre, arguing that theatrical censorship coincided with significant challenges to religious, political and cultural systems. The study provides a summary of theatre...

Nineteenth-century America witnessed a full-blown campaign against alcohol and, for most of the century, temperance reform was a national cause. As an integral part of the various temperance movements, a new form of theatrical literature and performance...

This is a book-length study of the collaboration between Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan. Their intense creative relationship, fuelled by a deep personal affinity that endured until Williams's death, lasted from 1947 until 1960. The production of A...

Performing the American Frontier, 1870-1906 examines how the American frontier was presented in theatrical productions during the critical period from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of cinema. In chronological fashion, the book explores the...

In this book, Susan Harris Smith looks at the many often conflicting cultural and academic reasons for the neglect and dismissal of American drama as a legitimate literary form. Covering a wide range of topics such as theatrical performance, the rise of...

The prostitute, and her sister in sin - the so-called 'fallen' woman - were veritable obsessions of American Progressive Era culture. Their cumulative presence, in scores of controversial theatrical productions, demonstrates the repeated obsession with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573603235Author Craig LucasFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

This first collection of plays by an Indian playwright presents a spectrum of Indian life that ranges in time from the past to the present and on into the future. Body Indian, the earliest, most widely performed, and most highly acclaimed of Geiogamah's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881451818Author Eugene Gladstone O'NeillPage Count 188Imprint Broadway Play Publishing Inc.,U.S.Publisher Broadway Play Publishing Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881458169Author Julie Marie MyattFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Broadway Play PublishingPublisher Broadway Play PublishingWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881453096Author Greg OwensFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Broadway Play Publishing IncPublisher Broadway Play Publishing IncWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881450965Author Martin JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Broadway Play Publishing IncPublisher Broadway Play Publishing IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881458718Author Mark St GermainFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Broadway Play PublishingPublisher Broadway Play PublishingWeight(grams) 104g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881450064Author Karen SundeFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Broadway Play Publishing IncPublisher Broadway Play Publishing IncWeight(grams) 118g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881458138Author Julie Marie MyattFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Broadway Play PublishingPublisher Broadway Play PublishingWeight(grams) 122g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881458190Author Daniel TherriaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Broadway Play Publishing IncPublisher Broadway Play Publishing IncWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881457421Author Oren SafdieFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Broadway Play Publishing IncPublisher Broadway Play Publishing IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759676909Author Andre JanssensFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 333g

In this book Brooks McNamara explores the world of the concert saloon in New York from the Civil War to the early years of the twentieth century. A concert saloon is defined as an establishment offering various kinds of entertainment, including alcohol,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881450088Author Ludmilla BollowFormat PaperbackPage Count 93Imprint Broadway Play Publishing Inc.,U.S.Publisher Broadway Play Publishing Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820444338Author Michael TaavFormat PaperbackPage Count 121Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 120g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881450101Author Megan TerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Broadway Play Publishing IncPublisher Broadway Play Publishing IncWeight(grams) 77g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881458176Author Julie Marie MyattFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Broadway Play PublishingPublisher Broadway Play PublishingWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881458275Author Charles EveredFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Broadway Play PublishingPublisher Broadway Play PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781491764664Author F Lewis HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint True DirectionsPublisher True DirectionsWeight(grams) 213g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881457384Author Christi Stewart-BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Broadway Play Publishing IncPublisher Broadway Play Publishing IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881457414Author George SapioFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Broadway Play Publishing IncPublisher Broadway Play Publishing IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881451399Author Allan HavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Broadway Play PublishingPublisher Broadway Play PublishingWeight(grams) 227g

Is it possible today to understand current genres such as drama and theater without considering the influence of television? Elizabeth Klaver argues that television's dominance of the entertainment industry demands a continual negotiation of subject...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977019700Author Edward EinhornFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Theater 61 PressPublisher Theater 61 PressWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881458213Author Richard NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Broadway Play PublishingPublisher Broadway Play PublishingWeight(grams) 222g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881459265Author Rogelio MartinezFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Broadway Play PublishingPublisher Broadway Play PublishingWeight(grams) 141g