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Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition by William W. Demastes 9780817308377
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $48.74Any review of 20th-century American theatre invariably leads to the term ""realism"". Yet despite the strong tradition of theatrical realism on the American stage, the term is frequently... -
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet 9781474261319
Booksplease Price: $88.96A student edition of Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play First staged in Britain in 1983, Glengarry Glen Ross is the tale of four real-estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition. It won the... -
Out of the Sixties: Storytelling and the Vietnam Generation by David Wyatt 9780521446891
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $73.04This study, first published in 1994, looks at the cultural legacy of the sixties through ten creative figures who came of age during the Vietnam War. Wyatt argues that it is each artist's 'personal... -
Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Views of His Writings and Ideas by Stephen Marino 9783030372927
RRP: $230.98Booksplease Price: $214.62Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Views of His Writings and Ideas brings together both established Miller experts and emerging commentators to investigate the sources of his... -
Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Views of His Writings and Ideas by Stephen Marino 9783030372958
RRP: $230.98Booksplease Price: $214.62Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Views of His Writings and Ideas brings together both established Miller experts and emerging commentators to investigate the sources of his... -
Avant Garde Theatre: 1892-1992 by Christopher Innes
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $108.34Examining the development of avant garde theatre from its inception in the 1890s right up to the present day, Christopher Innes exposes a central paradox of modern theatre; that the motivating force... -
Glengarry Glen Ross: A Play in Two Acts by David Mamet 9780413554208
Booksplease Price: $27.85First staged in Britain in 1983, Glengarry Glen Ross is the tale of four real-estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and was made into a film, starring... -
Notes from the Rehearsal Room: A Director’s Process by Nancy Meckler 9781350282216
Booksplease Price: $138.54Renowned theatre and film director Nancy Meckler delves into her hugely varied experiences in the rehearsal room and shares examples of tried-and-tested “tools” to bring a play to life. Meckler... -
Hollywood on Stage: Playwrights Evaluate the Culture Industry by Kimball King 9781138884076
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $49.43Playwrights have been depicting Hollywood as a cultural desert and an industry of profit-driven philistines ever since the early days of the movies. This collection of original essays covers the... -
Hollywood on Stage: Playwrights Evaluate the Culture Industry by Kimball King
Booksplease Price: $97.63Playwrights have been depicting Hollywood as a cultural desert and an industry of profit-driven philistines ever since the early days of the movies. This collection of original essays covers the... -
Beat Drama: Playwrights and Performances of the 'Howl’ Generation by Deborah Geis 9781472567888
Booksplease Price: $97.84Readers and acolytes of the vital early 1950s-mid 1960s writers known as the Beat Generation tend to be familiar with the prose and poetry by the seminal authors of this period: Jack Kerouac, Gregory... -
Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader by Benjamin Hedin 9780393327427
RRP: $44.10Booksplease Price: $42.36Hailed by Publishers Weekly as "not only the best writing on the ever-changing folk singer, but also some of the best writing about any musician around," Studio A presents Bob Dylan's unique literary... -
Anxious Masculinity in the Drama of Arthur Miller and Beyond: Salesmen, Sluggers, and Big Daddies by Claire Gleitman 9781350271111
Booksplease Price: $200.53This study examines the anxious male breadwinner as he is incarnated in Arthur Miller's most celebrated plays and as he resurfaces in different guises throughout American drama, from the 1950s to the... -
New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond by Robert Shapard 9780393328011
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.06Responding to America's love affair with the short-short, editors Robert Shapard and James Thomas searched thousands of books and magazines to select these sixty stories-each under 2,000 words, each... -
Plays of Impasse: Contemporary Drama Set in Confining Institutions by Charles Rosen 9780691613260
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $105.90This work probes the structure and significance of the increasingly numerous and highly visible plays set in contemporary society's dead ends the hospitals, insane asylums, prisons, and military... -
Staging America: Twenty-First-Century Dramatists by Christopher Bigsby
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $49.98This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Many of the American playwrights who dominated the 20th century are no longer with us:... -
Violence in American Drama: Essays on Its Staging, Meanings and Effects by Alfonso Ceballos Muñoz 9780786463930
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $71.36This interdisciplinary collection of 19 essays addresses violence on the American stage. Topics include the revolutionary period and the role of violence in establishing national identity,... -
Notes from the Rehearsal Room: A Director's Process Nancy Meckler 9781350282209
Booksplease Price: $53.61Renowned theatre and film director Nancy Meckler delves into her hugely varied experiences in the rehearsal room and shares examples of tried-and-tested "tools" to bring a play to life. Meckler... -
Paula Vogel by Joanna Mansbridge 9780472052394
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $50.69Paula Vogel's plays, including the Pulitzer-prizewinning How I Learned to Drive, initiate a conversation with contemporary culture, staging vexed issues like domestic violence, pornography, and AIDS... -
Looka Yonder!: The Imaginary America of Populist Culture Duncan Webster 9781032891194
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $65.50From Reagan and the New Right to Thatcherism, from the success of Bruce Springsteen to the popularity of the Sun, populism is one of the central questions of the 1980s. First published in 1988, Looka... -
Lascivious Something by Sheila Callaghan 9780573699252
Booksplease Price: $30.95Characters: 1 male, 3 female Single Set On a secluded Greek island, an American ex-pat pursues his passions: winemaking and his breathtaking young wife. Then, on the eve of Reagan's inauguration,... -
Looka Yonder!: The Imaginary America of Populist Culture Duncan Webster 9781032891170
RRP: $199.48Booksplease Price: $190.43From Reagan and the New Right to Thatcherism, from the success of Bruce Springsteen to the popularity of the Sun, populism is one of the central questions of the 1980s. First published in 1988, Looka... -
Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts: The Staging of Illusion across Time and Cultures by Ann C. Hall 9781350371699
Booksplease Price: $190.20Ghosts haunt the stages of world theatre, appearing in classical Greek drama through to the plays of 21st-century dramatists. Tracing the phenomenon across time and in different cultures, the... -
Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1970s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations by Michael Vanden Heuvel 9781350215474
Booksplease Price: $73.16The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a... -
Just Kids by Patti Smith 9780066211312
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $45.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2010 and New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Award... -
Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2017 by Harris M. Lentz III 9781476670324
RRP: $142.78Booksplease Price: $119.01The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2017, including iconic character actor Harry Dean Stanton, comedians Jerry Lewis and Dick Gregory, country singer Glen Campbell, playwright Sam... -
Feminist Theory for Dramatic Criticism by Gayle Austin 9780472064298
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $34.84Feminist Theories for Dramatic Criticism provides a number of useful approaches for analyzing works for the stage from a feminist perspective. Each chapter outlines key feminist theories in a... -
Memory: Theater and Postmodern Drama by Jeanette Malkin 9780472110377
Booksplease Price: $149.63This book examines the theme of memory in a range of plays by contemporary American and European playwrights, including Samuel Beckett, Heiner Muller, Sam Shepard, Adrienne Kennedy, Suzan-Lori Parks,... -
American Literature in Transition, 1960-1970 by David Wyatt 9781107165397
Booksplease Price: $244.44The decade of the 1960s has come to occupy a uniquely seductive place in both the popular and the historical imagination. While few might disagree that it was a transformative period, the United... -
Contemporary American Drama by Annette J. Saddik 9780748624935
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $181.00This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts that... -
A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: Volume 3: Beyond Broadway by C. W. E. Bigsby
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $115.52In this, the third and final volume of his critical account of American drama in the twentieth century, Christopher Bigsby turns from the text-oriented drama of Williams, Miller and Albee (volume 2)... -
Post-World War II Masculinities in British and American Literature and Culture: Towards Comparative Masculinity Studies Stefan Horlacher 9781138273122
RRP: $117.58Booksplease Price: $110.12Analyzing literary texts, plays, films and photographs within a transatlantic framework, this volume explores the inseparable and mutually influential relationship between different forms of national... -
On an Average Day by John Kolvenbach 9780413773289
Booksplease Price: $30.35A colossal hit published to tie in with productions in the West End and Broadway, starring Woody Harrelson and Kyle MacLachlan After 23 years two alienated brothers are reunited in the stinking... -
Contemporary Monologues: Men by Michael Earley 9780413681201
Booksplease Price: $43.47A collection of the best stage monologues of the eighties and nineties (including new translations) This volume brings together monologues of all types - from serious to comic and shades in between -... -
Anglo-American Interplay in Recent Drama by Ruby Cohn 9780521472678
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $171.61The provocative notion of a contemporary cross-cultural exchange within the medium of theatre is here imposed upon a dozen contemporary Anglo-American dramatists: Alan Ayckbourn and Neil Simon,... -
Out of the Sixties: Storytelling and the Vietnam Generation by David Wyatt 9780521441513
RRP: $237.30Booksplease Price: $229.45This study, first published in 1994, looks at the cultural legacy of the sixties through ten creative figures who came of age during the Vietnam War. Wyatt argues that it is each artist's 'personal... -
Modern American Drama, 1945-2000 by C. W. E. Bigsby 9780521790895
RRP: $239.40Booksplease Price: $220.69In this new edition of the widely-acclaimed Modern American Drama, Christopher Bigsby completes his survey of postwar and contemporary theatre and brings the reader up to 2000. While retaining the... -
Understanding Randall Kenan by James A. Crank 9781611179583
RRP: $193.20Booksplease Price: $154.56Randall Kenan is an American author best known for his novel A Visitation of Spirits and his collection of stories Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics... -
Urban Drama: The Metropolis in Contemporary North American Plays by J. Chris Westgate 9780230114531
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $71.23Identifying an apprehension about the nature and constitution of urbanism in North American plays, Westgate examines how cities like New York City and Los Angeles became focal points for identity... -
Matt Lankes: Photographs by Matt Lankes 9781477334607
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $65.18A retrospective tribute to the late, beloved Austin photographer Matt Lankes. Photographer Matt Lankes enjoyed chronicling people important to Texas and, especially, his hometown of Austin. His...