|
Showing 1 - 25 of
46 matches in All Departments
First published in 1990, this book presents a discussion with
Arthur Miller, in conversation with Christopher Bigsby. Miller
talks openly and extensively about his own life and experiences,
events and environments which provide material for his plays: his
New York childhood, the Depression, the McCarthy witch-hunts. He
discusses in depth both the technique of his writing and the moral
and political questions which his plays address, and argues
passionately for the importance of maintaining respect for human
values in a world where they are so frequently transgressed.
Interwoven with these conversations are contributions from actors,
directors, designers, reviewers, and writers who have encountered
Miller over the years - whether in person or through his plays -
which attest to the universal and enduring importance of his work.
First published in 1985, C.W.E Bigsby examines the career and work
of playwright David Mamet. Bigsby shows that Mamet is a fierce
social critic, indicting an America corrupted at its core by myths
of frontier individualism and competitive capitalism. Mamet has
created plays whose bleak social vision and ironic metaphysics are
redeemed, if at all, by the power of imagination. No American
playwright before him has displayed the same sensitivity to
language, detecting lyricism in the brutal incoherencies of every
day speech and investing with meaning a contemporary aphasia. Few
have offered dramatic metaphors of such startling and disturbing
originality. Bigsby's study is the first book to provide a thorough
account of David Mamet's life and career, as well as close analyses
of individual plays.
|
All My Sons (Paperback)
Arthur Miller; Introduction by Christopher Bigsby
1
|
R245
R192
Discovery Miles 1 920
Save R53 (22%)
|
Ships in 5 - 10 working days
|
In Joe and Kate Keller's family garden, an apple tree - a memorial
to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War - has been torn
down by a storm. But his loss is not the only part of the family's
past they can't put behind them. Not everybody's forgotten the
court case that put Joe's partner in jail, or the cracked engine
heads his factory produced which caused it and dropped twenty-one
pilots out of the sky ...
A New Introduction to American Studies provides a coherent portrait
of American history, literature, politics, culture and society, and
also deals with some of the central themes and preoccupations of
American life. It will provoke students into thinking about what it
actually means to study a culture. Ideals such as the commitment to
liberty, equality and material progress are fully examined and new
light is shed on the sometimes contradictory ways in which these
ideals have informed the nation's history and culture. For
introductory undergraduate courses in American Studies, American
History and American Literature.
First published in 1990, this book presents a discussion with
Arthur Miller, in conversation with Christopher Bigsby. Miller
talks openly and extensively about his own life and experiences,
events and environments which provide material for his plays: his
New York childhood, the Depression, the McCarthy witch-hunts. He
discusses in depth both the technique of his writing and the moral
and political questions which his plays address, and argues
passionately for the importance of maintaining respect for human
values in a world where they are so frequently transgressed.
Interwoven with these conversations are contributions from actors,
directors, designers, reviewers, and writers who have encountered
Miller over the years - whether in person or through his plays -
which attest to the universal and enduring importance of his work.
First published in 1985, C.W.E Bigsby examines the career and work
of playwright David Mamet. Bigsby shows that Mamet is a fierce
social critic, indicting an America corrupted at its core by myths
of frontier individualism and competitive capitalism. Mamet has
created plays whose bleak social vision and ironic metaphysics are
redeemed, if at all, by the power of imagination. No American
playwright before him has displayed the same sensitivity to
language, detecting lyricism in the brutal incoherencies of every
day speech and investing with meaning a contemporary aphasia. Few
have offered dramatic metaphors of such startling and disturbing
originality. Bigsby's study is the first book to provide a thorough
account of David Mamet's life and career, as well as close analyses
of individual plays.
Fifty years after the original production of Death of a Salesman,
Arthur Miller's play has as much emotional impact upon and
relevance to the audience of twenty-first century America as it did
when it was first performed. In this collection of papers, taken
from the Fifth International Arthur Miller Conference in Brooklyn
Heights, New York, authors focus on the play's position in
America's dramatic literary canon. The subjects of the essays range
from evaluation of the play in economic terms to critical analysis
of specific productions, to a look at the body of Miller's works.
This book is open access and available on
www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
Many of the American playwrights who dominated the 20th century are
no longer with us: Edward Albee, Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, Neil
Simon, August Wilson and Wendy Wasserstein. A new generation, whose
careers began in this century, has emerged, and done so when the
theatre itself, along with the society with which it engages, was
changing. Capturing the cultural shifts of 21st-century America,
Staging America explores the lives and works of 8 award-winning
playwrights – including Ayad Akhtar, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Young
Jean Lee and Quiara AlllegrÃa Hudes – whose backgrounds reflect
the social, religious, sexual and national diversity of American
society. Each chapter is devoted to a single playwright and
provides an overview of their career, a description and critical
evaluation of their work, as well as a sense of their reception.
Drawing on primary sources, including the playwrights’ own
commentaries and notes, and contemporary reviews, Christopher
Bigsby enters into a dialogue with plays which are as various as
the individuals who generated them. An essential read for theatre
scholars and students, Staging America is a sharp and landmark
study of the contemporary American playwright.
A New Introduction to American Studies provides a coherent portrait
of American history, literature, politics, culture and society, and
also deals with some of the central themes and preoccupations of
American life. It will provoke students into thinking about what it
actually means to study a culture. Ideals such as the commitment to
liberty, equality and material progress are fully examined and new
light is shed on the sometimes contradictory ways in which these
ideals have informed the nation's history and culture. For
introductory undergraduate courses in American Studies, American
History and American Literature.
"I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else
whom I knew as well" Eschewing a conventional residence and
lifestyle, Thoreau set up home in the woods on the shore of Walden
Pond in Massachusetts, a mile from his nearest neighbor, and earned
his living by labor of his own hands. Most people, he says are so
occupied with the factitious care and toils of life that its finer
fruits remain unplucked. So he went to Walden in an attempt to
find, in the seemingly simple routines of life stripped to its
essentials, the shape beneath what is apparently chaotic. Walden
describes Thoreau's domestic economy, the wildlife, the few
visitors to his remote wooden hut, and his reflections on the
quality of human life in age of growing materialism and of
prevailing work ethic. It has become poignant critique of the
values of Thoreau's society which retains its relevance and
extraordinary power today. "A comprehensive paper edition, with an
introduction and chronology of Thoreau's life and times"
WRITERS IN CONVERSATION compiles Christopher Bigsby's interviews
with the world's greatest writers from a decade of the Arthur
Miller Centre's International Literary Festival at the University
of East Anglia. These often candid, in-depth, witty and
illuminating exchanges shine a light on the craft and profession of
the working writer today. Volume 3 features interviews with Martin
Amis, Alan Acykbourn, John Banville, John Banville, Cherie Blair,
William Boyd, Andre Brink, Geraldine Brooks, A. S. Byatt, Jung
Chang, Louis de Bernieres, Margaret Drabble, Richard Eyre, Richard
Flanagan, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, David Guterson,
Christopher Hampton, David Hare, Michael Holroyd, Christopher Hope,
Clive James and Hanif Kureishi.
|
Hinterland 2021 - Winter (Paperback)
Andrew Kenrick, Freya Dean; Cover design or artwork by Tom Hutchings; Lorna Sage, Sharon Tolaini-Sage, …
|
R257
Discovery Miles 2 570
|
Ships in 12 - 17 working days
|
WRITERS IN CONVERSATION compiles Christopher Bigsby's interviews
with the world's greatest writers from a decade of the Arthur
Miller Centre's International Literary Festival at the University
of East Anglia. These often candid, in-depth, witty and
illuminating exchanges shine a light on the craft and profession of
the working writer today.
In American Dramatists in the 21st Century: Opening Doors,
Christopher Bigsby examines the careers of seven award-winning
playwrights: David Adjmi, Julia Cho, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Will
Eno, Martyna Majok, Dominique Morisseau and Anna Ziegler. In
addition to covering all their plays, including several as yet
unpublished, he notes their critical reception while drawing on
their own commentary on their approach to writing and the business
of developing a career. The writers studied come from a diverse
range of racial, religious and immigrant backgrounds. Five of the
seven are women. Together, they open doors on a changing theatre
and a changing America, as ever concerned with identity, both
personal and national. This is the third in a series of books
which, together, have explored the work of twenty-four American
playwrights who have emerged in the current century.
|
Ishmael (Paperback)
Christopher Bigsby
|
R358
Discovery Miles 3 580
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
Flint (Paperback)
Christopher Bigsby
|
R329
Discovery Miles 3 290
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
What if Edgar Allan Poe did not die, drunk on election day? What if
he did not die at all? What if his planned escape from a life that
oppressed him led him on a journey not only across an ocean but
into the heart of darkness as he encountered those anxious to
enroll him in their brotherhood? Christopher Bigsby takes a man
renowned for his gothic tales, in which the buried return, and
makes Poe himself the target of those with a taste for blood who
are prepared to follow him until they judge him ready to join them.
Poe, or the Revenant is a story worthy of Poe himself and who is to
know where truth ends and invention begins?
WRITERS IN CONVERSATION compiles Christopher Bigsby's interviews
with the world's greatest writers from a decade of the Arthur
Miller Centre's International Literary Festival at the University
of East Anglia. These often candid, in-depth, witty and
illuminating exchanges shine a light on the craft and profession of
the working writer today. Volume 4 features interviews with David
Leavitt, Doris Lessing, Penelope Lively, David Lodge, Javier
Marias, Blake Morrison, Toni Morrison, John Mortimer, Michael
Ondaatje, Stephen Poliakoff, Irina Ratushinskaya, Salman Rushdie,
Nawal El Saadawi, Jane Smiley, Alexander McCall Smith, Tom
Stoppard, Graham Swift, Amy Tan, Colm Toibin, Claire Tomalin with
Michael Frayn, Rose Tremain, Jane Urquhart, Peter Ustinov and
Shirley Williams.
Reflections on the late Arthur Miller from over seventy writers,
actors, directors and friends, with 'Arthur Miller Remembers' an
interview with the writer from 1995. Following his death in
February 2005, newspapers were filled with tributes to the man
regarded by many as the greatest playwright of the twentieth
century. Published as a celebration and commemoration of his life,
Part I of Remembering Arthur Miller is a collection of over seventy
specially commissioned pieces from writers, actors, directors and
friends, providing personal, critical and professional commentary
on the man who gave the theatre such timeless classics as All my
Sons, A View from the Bridge, The Death of a Salesman, and The
Crucible. Contributors read like a Who's Who of theatre, film and
literature: Edward Albee, Alan Ayckbourn, Brian Cox, Richard Eyre,
Joseph Fiennes, Nadine Gordimer, Dustin Hoffman, Warren Mitchell,
Harold Pinter, Vanessa Redgrave and Tom Stoppard, to name but a
few. Part II, 'Arthur Miller Remembers', is an in-depth and
wide-ranging interview conducted with Miller in 1995. commentary
and analysis both of Miller's life and the life of twentieth
century America, including Miller's upbringing in Harlem, the
Depression, marriage to Marilyn Monroe, post-war America, being
sentenced to prison by the House Un-American Activities Committee
in 1956, and his presidency of the writer's organisation, PEN
International, as well as commentary and analysis of his many plays
and his reflections on the theatre in America. October 2005 sees
the 90th anniversary of Miller's birth. The much acclaimed new
Broadway production of Death of a Salesman opened to rave reviews
at the Lyric Theatre, London, in May 2005, starring Brian Dennehy.
Miller is a perennial of the theatre. His plays are constantly
revived all over the world; and studied on school and university
courses. Arthur Miller was born in New York in 1915. After
graduating from the University of Michigan, he started a career as
a playwright, which resulted in more than 25 important plays. He
has also written fiction, screenplays, and non-fiction. He died on
February 10 2005.
This book is open access and available on
www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
Many of the American playwrights who dominated the 20th century are
no longer with us: Edward Albee, Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, Neil
Simon, August Wilson and Wendy Wasserstein. A new generation, whose
careers began in this century, has emerged, and done so when the
theatre itself, along with the society with which it engages, was
changing. Capturing the cultural shifts of 21st-century America,
Staging America explores the lives and works of 8 award-winning
playwrights - including Ayad Akhtar, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Young
Jean Lee and Quiara Alllegria Hudes - whose backgrounds reflect the
social, religious, sexual and national diversity of American
society. Each chapter is devoted to a single playwright and
provides an overview of their career, a description and critical
evaluation of their work, as well as a sense of their reception.
Drawing on primary sources, including the playwrights' own
commentaries and notes, and contemporary reviews, Christopher
Bigsby enters into a dialogue with plays which are as various as
the individuals who generated them. An essential read for theatre
scholars and students, Staging America is a sharp and landmark
study of the contemporary American playwright.
The early years of the twenty-first century saw several losses for
the American theatre but also marked the emergence of a new
generation of exciting playwrights. In this book, Christopher
Bigsby explores the work of nine of these developing talents, and
the importance of issues including race, gender and politics for
their writing. Increasingly, these new figures are gaining their
reputations not on Broadway but in small theatres and small towns
or even abroad, bringing fresh and diverse perspectives to
contemporary American drama. With a focus on female writers and on
issues of personal and public identity in contemporary society,
this volume investigates the styles and techniques these
playwrights favour, the themes they raise, and their role in a
changing America and a changing world.
|
You may like...
Tenet
John David Washington, Robert Pattinson
Blu-ray disc
(1)
R54
Discovery Miles 540
Tenet
John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, …
DVD
R53
Discovery Miles 530
|