Winter Passages: Reflections on Theatre and Society

ISBN-13: 9781138517974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 176 str.

Robert Brustein

Opis

Winter Passages is Robert Brustein's nineteenth book of criticism

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Past is Prologue

1 Cultural Passages
The Institution as a Work of Art
More Masterpieces
Weill, Lenya, and the Broadway Musical
Thornton Wilder: The Paleface Who Wanted to Be a Redskin
Mel Brooks's America: Puttin' on the Spritz
The Like Generation
Return of the Booboisie
China Begins to Dream

2 Playwright Passages
Aeschylus
Edward Albee
Aristophanes
Alan Ayckbourn
Samuel Beckett
Anton Chekhov
Noel Coward
Gilbert and Sullivan
Lorraine Hansberry
Henrik Ibsen
Tony Kushner
Arthur Miller
Eugene O'Neill
Luigi Pirandello
Theresa Rebeck
Sarah Ruhl
Arthur Schnitzler
William Shakespeare
George Bernard Shaw
Sam Shepard
Sophocles
Tom Stoppard
Frank Wedekind
August Strindberg
Tennessee Williams
August Wilson

3 Commemorative Passages
F. Murray Abraham
Robert Woodruff
John Douglas Thompson
Oskar Eustis
Carmen De Lavallade
Christopher Durang
Philip Roth
David Wheeler
Stanley Kauffmann
Jeremy Geidt

Epilogue

Index

O autorze

Robert Brustein