Kategoria BISAC: Drama >> American - General

In Briefcase Warriors, a collection of six fast-paced, thought-provoking plays, E. Donald Two-Rivers presents an intricate and multifaceted view of contemporary American Indian urban life. Alternately sad, humorous, or discomfiting, these plays range from one-act vignettes accessible to young adults to extended portrayals of the seedier side of urban existence. Fast-talking and hard-living, the characters depicted by Two-Rivers struggle to survive the sometimes hostile environs of a society whose members think of them as a vanishing race.

The plays included are: Winter Summit or the...

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The author of numerous plays and film scripts, including" Green Grow the Lilacs," later made into the hit musical "Oklahoma ," Lynn Riggs (18991954) is recognized as one of America s most engaging dramatists and was the only active American Indian dramatist during the first half of the twentieth century. An elegant leatherbound collector s edition, "The Cherokee Night and Other Plays," features his never-before-published play "Out of Dust," as well as "The Cherokee Night" and "Green Grow the Lilacs."

A mixed-blood Cherokee, Riggs wrote...

Death and Life in Colonial Nahua Mexico presents seven dramas from the first truly American theater. Composed in Nahuatl during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, most of these plays survive only in later copies. Five are morality plays. Presenting Christian views of moral reform, death, judgment, and punishment for sin, they reveal how these themes were adapted into Nahua culture. The other two plays dramatize biblical narratives: the stories of Abraham and Isaac and of the three wise men.

In this volume, Barry D. Sell and Louise M. Burkhart offer faithful...

Long a leading figure in American literature, N. Scott Momaday is perhaps best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning "House Made of Dawn" and his celebration of his Kiowa ancestry, "The Way to Rainy Mountain." Momaday has also made his mark in theater through two plays and a screenplay. Published here for the first time, they display his signature talent for interweaving oral and literary traditions.

"The Indolent Boys" recounts the 1891 tragedy of runaways from the Kiowa Boarding School who froze to death while trying to return to their families. The play explores the consequences, for...

Arthur Kopit has been one of our most imaginative, acclaimed, and produced playwrights. Now his three classics plays are available in one volume: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You In The Closet And I'm Feelin' So Sad, Indians, and Wings.

"Kopit is one of America's most playful and prophetic playwrights, by turns ingenious, hilarious and sensational. His plays are among the high-water marks of American theatre."--The New Yorker

In an effort to define what constitutes a feminist reading of literary works, Ann C. Hall offers an analytic technique that is both a feminist and a psychoanalytic approach, applying this technique to her study of women characters in the modern dramatic texts of Eugene O Neill, Harold Pinter, and Sam Shepard.

This is the first study to treat these three writers in tandem, and while Hall uses the work of Jacques Lacan, Luce Irigaray, and other psychoanalytic feminist critics in her close readings of specific dramatic texts, she also brings in commentaries by critics, directors,...

Messiah of the New Technique: John Howard Lawson, Communism, and American Theatre, 19231937 is a critical and political biography and a cultural and social history that focuses on Lawson s career in the theatre. Using a materialist methodology, Jonathan L. Chambers emphasizes the evolution and interplay of the playwright s artistic vision and political ideology, considering his art as both a documentation of this evolution and a product of the socio-political and cultural matrix in which he was immersed.

Spanning the playwright s career, the volume details Lawson s early...