Research Catalog

Title

Barnestorm : the plays of Peter Barnes / Bernard F. Dukore.

Author

Dukore, Bernard F., 1931-

Publication

New York, NY : Garland, 1995.

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Details

Description

xii, 316 pages; 22 cm.

Series Statement

• Studies in modern drama ; v. 5
• Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 1654

Uniform Title

• Studies in modern drama ; 5.
• Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 1654.

Subject

• Barnes, Peter, 1931-2004 > Criticism and interpretation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• I. The Barnes Controversy -- II. Biography and Survey -- III. The Major Plays. The Ruling Class. Leonardo's Last Supper. Noonday Demons. The Bewitched. Laughter! Red Noses. Sunsets and Glories. Heaven's Blessings. Eggs in Gravy. Their Theatrical Style -- IV. Early Works. The Man with a Feather in His Hat. The Time of the Barracudas. Sclerosis. Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie (i). Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie (ii). Foreshadowing and Progress -- V. Miniatures and More. Barnes' People. Confessions of a Primary Terrestrial Mental Receiver and Communicator: NUM III Mark I, The Jumping Mimuses of Byzantium, The Theory and Practice of Belly-Dancing, The End of the World - and After, Yesterday's News, Glory, Rosa. Barnes' People II. Acting Exercise, Moondog Rogan and the Mighty Hamster, Silver Bridges, Worms, The Right Time and Place, It's Cold, Wanderer, It's Cold, Lament for Armenians and Grey Viruses. Revolutionary Witness. The Patriot, The Butcher, The Preacher, The Amazon.
• The Spirit of Man. A Hand Witch of the Second Stage, From Sleep and Shadow, The Night of the Sinhat Torah. The Able Disabled. Nobody Here But Us Chickens, More Than a Touch of Zen, Not As Bad As They Seem. Barnes' People III. After the Funeral, The Peace of Westphalia, The Real Long John Silver, The Heirs of Diogenes, Sisters, Dancing, The Perfect Pair, The Three Visions. More Barnes' People. Madame Zenobia, Slaughterman, The Road to Strome, Billy and Me, Losing Myself, Houdini's Heir, A True-Born Englishman, No End to Dreaming. Bye Bye Columbus. The Trial of Socrates -- VI. Editings and Adaptations. The Roles of Editor and Adapter. Seventeenth-Century Editings. The Alchemist, Volpone, Bartholomew Fair, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, The Silent Woman, The Magnetic Lady, The Soldier's Fortune, The Atheist, The Dutch Courtesan, A Mad World, My Masters, A Trick to Catch the Old One. Jacobean Adaptations. Antonio. The Devil is an Ass. The Old Law. Eastward Ho!.
• Adaptations from Foreign Languages. A Eulogy of Baldness, The Two Hangmen: Brecht and Wedekind, Tango at the End of Winter. Lulu. The Singer. Don Juan and Faust. The Primrose Path. Woman of Paris. Scenes from a Marriage. The Purging. Actors. Common Features with His Original Plays -- VII. Turning on a Sixpence.

ISBN

0815311346

LCCN

95004207

OCLC

ocm32051547

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries