Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Feingold, Michael
2. Eichelberger, Ethyl
3. Finley, Karen
4. Gordon, David
5. Greenberg, Richard
6. Greenspan, David
7. Wellman, Mac

Description

1. xxii, 386 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

1. "In recent seasons, theater has witnessed one of the fiercest examinations yet of its art, as playwrights and performance artists continue to re-form image and language. In this collection, editor Michael Feingold has gathered the works of six contemporary and frequently controversial authors, all of whom have won acclaim for their originality and accomplishment. They have challenged, delighted, antagonized, entertained, and fascinated audiences -- often with explosive results. Some have faced censorship, loss of funding, and threats of violence. But despite changing political climates, the scripted play has become over recent years an ever more flexible phenomenon, as this representative anthology so provocatively reveals"--Jacket flap.

Subject

1. 1900-1999
2. Geschichte 1991
3. American drama -- 20th century

Genre/Form

1. Plays (Performed Works)
2. scripts (documents)
3. Drama
4. Théâtre.

Contents

1. The mysteries and what's so funny? / David Gordon -- Sincerity forever / Mac Wellman -- The American plan / Richard Greenberg -- The theory of total blame / Karen Finley -- Dasvedanya Mama / Ethyl Eichelberger -- Dead mother, or, Shirley not all in vain / David Greenspan.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain