ISBN: 9780195090796

ISBN-13: 9780195090796, 978-0195090796. American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1930-1969 Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can … More...

ISBN-13: 9780195090796, 978-0195090796. American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1930-1969 Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days).Author(s): Gerald BordmanFormat: HardbackPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United StatesImprint: Oxford University Press IncISBN-13: 9780195090796, 978-0195090796SynopsisThis book concludes Gerald Bordman's survey of American non-musical theatre. It deals with the years 1930 to 1970, a period when the production of new plays was declining, but, at the same time, a period when American drama fully entered the world stage and became a dominant presence. Despite the looming presence of the film industry, this period was a golden age rich in plays, playwrights, and performers. From Eugene O'Neill's A Long Day's Journey intoNight and Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire to Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, American theatre finally reached adulthood both dramatically and psychologically. In addition, many brilliant acting careers were launched or climaxed on the Americanstage, including Henry Fonda and Jessica Tandy, and foreign stars, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. Bordman's study covers every Broadway production, and, increasingly in the 1950s and 1960s, every major off-Broadway show. His discussion moves season by season and show by show in chronological order; he offers plot synopses and details the physical production, directors, players, theaters, and newspaper reviews. Bordman stops at 1970, because, in his view, the decline in quantity and qualityhad reached an all time low, with British playwrights providing the only memorable dramas on the English-speaking stage. This book and the preceding volumes of The American Theatre stands as the standard history of American drama in all its aspects., Neu, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], EAN: 9780195090796, Publication Year: 1997, Format: Hardcover, Language: English, Book Title: American Theatre: a Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1930-1969, Item Height: 243mm, Item Width: 199mm, Item Weight: 1145g, Number of Pages: 480 Pages, Oxford University Press<

ISBN: 9780195090796

This book concludes Gerald Bordman''s acclaimed survey of American non-musical theatre. It deals with the years 1930 to 1970, a period when the number of yearly new plays was shrinking, b… More...

This book concludes Gerald Bordman''s acclaimed survey of American non-musical theatre. It deals with the years 1930 to 1970, a period when the number of yearly new plays was shrinking, but a period during which American drama as a whole entered the world stage and became a dominant force. Withworks like Eugene O''Neill''s Long Day''s Journey Into Night, Tennessee William''s A Streetcar Named Desire, and Arthur Miller''s Death of a Salesman, American theater finally reached adulthood both dramatically and psychologically. Bordman''s lively, authoritative study covers every Broadway production, as well as every major off-Broadway show. His discussion moves season by season and show by show in chronological order; he offers plot synopses and details the physical production, directors, players, theaters, and newspaper reviews. This book and the preceding volumes of American Theatre stand asthe premier history of American drama. | American Theatre by Gerald Bordman Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > Music & Movies & Performing Arts > Movies & Filmmaking > Film Industry P10122, Gerald Bordman<