Anglo-American Interplay in Recent Drama

ISBN-13: 9780521472678 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 204 str.

Davis) Ruby Cohn (University of California

Opis

The notion of a contemporary cross-cultural exchange within the medium of theater is here imposed on a dozen contemporary Anglo-American dramatists: Alan Ayckbourn and Neil Simon, Edward Bond and Sam Shepard, David Mamet and Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill and Maria Irene Fornes, David Hare and David Rabe, Christopher Hampton and Richard Nelson. In each pairing, Ruby Cohn unites a British with an American playwright, exploring similarities that serve as a springboard for the exposure of a more profound, culturally-based difference.

Recenzje

"Cohn has certainly done her homework, and applies her findings with the intelligence that characterizes much of her vast body of writing-notably her Beckett criticism." James Frieze, Theatre Studies

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Funny money in New York and Pendon: Neil Simon and Alan Ayckbourn; 2. Artists' arias: Edward Bond and Sam Shepard; 3. Phrasal energies: Harold Pinter and David Mamet; 4. Reading and teaching: Maria Irene Fornes and Caryl Churchill; 5. Males articulating women: David Hare and David Rabe; 6. Englobing intimacies: Christopher Hampton and Richard Nelson; Notes; Bibliography; Index of plays and playwrights.