Kategoria BISAC: Drama >> Anthologies (multiple authors)

This anthology consists of nine plays by a diverse group of women from throughout the African continent. The plays focus on a wide range of issues, such as cultural differences, AIDS, female circumcision, women's rights to higher education, racial and skin color identity, prostitution as a form of survival for young girls, and nonconformist women resisting old traditions. In addition to the plays themselves, this collection includes commentaries by the playwrights on their own plays, and editor Kathy A. Perkins provides additional commentary and a bibliography of published and unpublished...

This is a collection of six extraordinary plays, all of which experiment with form, subject matter, and genre in order to comment on the modern black experience in terms of culture, politics, and performance. It includes: B is for Black, Moj of the Antarctic, The Sons of Charlie Paora, Brown Girl in the Ring, Something Dark, and 35 Cents.

This anthology contains scholarly and annotated editions of six major Elizabethan and Jacobean plays:

The Spanish Tragedy
Doctor Faustus
Sejanus
Women Beware Women
The White Devil
'Tis Pity She's a Whore

For those whose familiarity with black women playwrights is limited to the works of Lorraine Hansberry and Ntozake Shange, this collection of 15 plays written between 1925 and 1985 by eight authors will be a revelation. They express a passionate longing for social justice and for a stable, nurturing relationship between black men and women. Introductions for each author provide biographical information and critical analyses. A useful bibliography of plays and secondary sources is also included. This anthology helps to fill a serious gap in the standard histories of American drama. "Library...

The Cookie Jar and Other Plays was first published in 1975. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

The scripts of three plays by John Clark Donahue, artistic director of the Children's Theatre Company of the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, are published in this volume along with background material and illustrations which, together, provide a look behind the scenes at the company, its personnel, methods, and productions. The...

The first English-language anthology of post-1989 Czech plays exploring once-taboo subjects and new realities. Includes plays by David Drabek, Lenka Lagronova, Jiri Pokorny, Ivana Ruzickova, Egon Tobias, Iva Volankova, and Petr Zelenka.

In his original new study, Seth Graham analyzes a rich and forgotten vein of humor in an otherwise bleak environment. The late Soviet period (1961 1986) hardly seems fertile ground for humor, but Russian jokes ("anekdoty") about life in the Soviet Union were ubiquitous. The cultural and political relaxation in the decade following Stalin s death produced considerable optimism among Soviet citizens. The "anekdot" exploited and exposed what Graham calls "Soviet diglossia" (official Sovietese vs. Russian everyday language) and emphasized the distance between official myths and quotidian...