Toby Zinman

Replay: Classic Modern Drama Reimagined (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Replay: Classic Modern Drama Reimagined spans over a century of great theatre to explore how iconic plays have been adapted and versioned by later writers to reflect or dissect the contemporary zeitgeist.

Starting with A Doll's House, Ibsen's much-reprised masterpiece of marital relations from 1879, Toby Zinman explores what made the play so controversial and shocking in its day before tracing how later reimaginings have reworked Ibsen's original. The spine of plays then includes such landmark works as Strindberg's Miss Julie, Oscar Wilde's comic The Importance of Being Earnest, Chekhov's Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya, Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, the Rattigan centenary revivals, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, ultimately arriving at Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Taking each modern play as the starting point, Zinman explores the diverse renderings and reworkings by subsequent playwrights and artists -including prominent directors and their controversial productions as well as acknowledging reworkings in film, opera and ballet.Through the course of this groundbreaking study we discover not only how theatrical styles have changed but how society's attitude towards politics, religion, money, gender, sexuality and race have radically altered over the course of the century. In turn Replay reveals how theatre can serve as both a reflection of our times and a provocation to them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408182710
• Artikelnr.: 41502549

Autorenporträt

Toby Zinman is Professor of English at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA where she was awarded the prize for "Distinguished Teaching." Zinman was a Fulbright professor at Tel Aviv University, a visiting professor in China, and has won five grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She publishes widely and lectures internationally on American drama. Zinman is also a widely published arts journalist and the chief theatre critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer where she reviews New York and London as well as Philadelphia. She was recently named by American Theatre magazine, "one of the twelve most influential critics in America."

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION Georg Büchner Woyzeck Notable Productions and
Replays PART ONE: "You can be better!" 1. Henrik Ibsen A Doll's House
Replays Hedda Gabler Replays 2. George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion Replays 3.
Bertolt Brecht Mother Courage and Her Children Replays 4. Harley Granville
Barker The Voysey Inheritance Replays A Farewell to the Theatre Replays 5.
Terence Rattigan The Winslow Boy Replays The Browning Version Replays The
Sleeping Prince Replays 6. Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman Replays 7.
Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun Replays PART TWO: "Nothing to be
done." 8. August Strindberg Miss Julie Replays The Dance of Death Replays
9. Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest Replays 10. Anton Chekhov
Uncle Vanya Replays Three Sisters Replays Composite Chekhov 11. Thornton
Wilder Our Town Replays 12. Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire
Replays 13. Eugene Ionesco The Chairs Replays 14. Samuel Beckett Waiting
for Godot Replays The prison productions CONCLUSION Alphabetical Listing of
Plays and Productions Index