Albee

Literature & Fiction

Bigsby, C. W. E.

History & Criticism

Taylor&Francis

Edward Albee: A collection of critical essays (Twentieth century views)

5 1/2"x8 1/8" 180 page paperback of critical essays published by Prentice-Hall in 1975

PRENTICE/HALL

Format Hardcover Subject Literary Collections Publisher Westport Conn Greenwood Press c1980

The Second Black Renaissance: Essays in Black Literature (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets)

Praeger

First published in 1972, the work provides an introduction to Dada and Surrealism. It explores the two movements and their cultural significance. It also looks at those who called themselves Dadaists and Surrealists, including their aims and achievements. In doing so, the book identifies the meaning that the two terms have acquired, which is often remote from the claims advanced by the chief adherents of each movement.  This book will be a valuable resource to those studying Dada and Surrealism and its relationship to modern literature.

Dada & Surrealism (The Critical idiom, 23)

Arts & Photography

Methuen [Distributed in the U.S.A. by Barnes and Noble

This is the first of two volumes in which Christopher Bigsby offers extended critical readings of the work of the leading dramatists and theatre groups in twentieth-century America. In this century drama has emerged as one of the most exciting expressions of American creativity, and during the 1930s became a primary means of addressing the cultural, political and economic changes of the period. But it has received surprisingly little attention. This is a chronological and selective study related to American culture as a whole and providing a picture of a vigorous theatre in the process of discovering its own special strengths. Volume 1 begins with the companies who first broke away from the stifling world of melodrama and naturalism - the Provincetown and Washington Square Players. Christopher Bigsby describes the emergence of important individuals and companies throughout the period to 1940, giving extended critical accounts of some playwrights, particularly Eugene O'Neill, Elmer Rice, Clifford Odets. Thornton Wilder and Lillian Hellman, and distinguishing between the aims and policies of the various companies, including the Theatre Guild and the Group Theatre. The development of left-wing theatre from 1914 is separately discussed, followed by a chapter on the brief flowering of the Federal Theatre which popularised theatre for a mass audience via its successful Living Newspaper productions. A chapter on black drama includes works by and about black Americans during this period. Some of the important figures and productions are illustrated, and there are useful appendices listing performances by major theatre companies.

A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: Volume 1, 1900–1940

Cambridge University Press

This is the second volume in Christopher Bigsby's critical history of the important American dramatists and theatrical movements in the twentieth-century. Volume 1 brought the story to 1940 and included the last plays of O'Neill. In two further volumes Dr Bigsby covers the period from 1940 onwards. In Volume 2 he steps aside from the strict chronological progression to consider at length and in detail the achievement of the three great playwrights who dominate the post-war scene and who have earned an international reputation: Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller and Edward Albee. All three brought to the Broadway Theatre (discussed separately in Volume 3) a strong degree of moral seriousness and aesthetic sensitivity. Dr Bigsby gives a full account of the early unpublished plays and the major works by each playwright, drawing on biographical detail and political background to illuminate his reading of the plays, which are illustrated by photographs of important productions.

A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: Volume 2, Williams, Miller, Albee

Dramas & Plays

In this, the third and final volume of his critical account of American drama in the twentieth century, Christopher Bigsby turns from the text-oriented drama of Williams, Miller and Albee (volume 2) in order to trace other, parallel theatrical developments of the post-war period, including contemporary groups and playwrights. Beyond Broadway denotes the geographical and spiritual challenges to prevailing standards which so fragmented the theatre of the 1960s in particular. Following his analysis of the Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway playwrights and theatres, Dr Bigsby separates the period into four main areas: performance theatre (including the Living Theatre and the Performance Group); the conjunction of dance, music and painting with drama in the 'theatre of images'; two successful contemporary playwrights, Sam Shepard and David Mamet; and finally the committed theatre exemplified in the San Francisco Mime Troupe and Chicano, black and women's theatre.

A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: Volume 3, Beyond Broadway

This is the second volume in Christopher Bigsby's critical history of the important American dramatists and theatrical movements in the twentieth-century. Volume 1 brought the story to 1940 and included the last plays of O'Neill. In two further volumes Dr Bigsby covers the period from 1940 onwards. In Volume 2 he steps aside from the strict chronological progression to consider at length and in detail the achievement of the three great playwrights who dominate the post-war scene and who have earned an international reputation: Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller and Edward Albee. All three brought to the Broadway Theatre (discussed separately in Volume 3) a strong degree of moral seriousness and aesthetic sensitivity. Dr Bigsby gives a full account of the early unpublished plays and the major works by each playwright, drawing on biographical detail and political background to illuminate his reading of the plays, which are illustrated by photographs of important productions.

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Albee

Edward Albee: A collection of critical essays (Twentieth century views)

The Second Black Renaissance: Essays in Black Literature (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets)

Dada & Surrealism (The Critical idiom, 23)

A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: Volume 1, 1900–1940

A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: Volume 2, Williams, Miller, Albee

A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: Volume 3, Beyond Broadway

A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: Volume 1, 1900–1940

A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: Volume 2, Williams, Miller, Albee

A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: Volume 3, Beyond Broadway