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A History of Modern Drama, Volume II: 1960 - 2000
David Krasner
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Description for A History of Modern Drama, Volume II: 1960 - 2000
Hardback. A History of Modern Drama: Volume II explores a remarkable breadth of topics and analytical approaches to the dramatic works, authors, and transitional events and movements that shaped world drama from 1960 through to the dawn of the new millennium. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170. .
A History of Modern Drama: Volume II explores a remarkable breadth of topics and analytical approaches to the dramatic works, authors, and transitional events and movements that shaped world drama from 1960 through to the dawn of the new millennium. * Features detailed analyses of plays and playwrights, examining the influence of a wide range of writers, from mainstream icons such as Harold Pinter and Edward Albee, to more unorthodox works by Peter Weiss and Sarah Kane * Provides global coverage of both English and non-English dramas including works from Africa and Asia to the Middle East * Considers the influence of art, music, literature, architecture, society, politics, culture, and philosophy on the formation of postmodern dramatic literature * Combines wide-ranging topics with original theories, international perspective, and philosophical and cultural context Completes a comprehensive two-part work examining modern world drama, and alongside A History of Modern Drama: Volume I, offers readers complete coverage of a full century in the evolution of global dramatic literature.
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
1069g
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
Chicester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405157582
SKU
V9781405157582
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99-50
About David Krasner
David Krasner is Professor and Dean of the School of the Arts at Dean College in Franklin, Massachusetts. He is the author and editor of numerous books on modern drama, African American theatre, dramatic theory and criticism, and acting, including A History of Modern Drama: Volume I (2012), and Theatre in Theory: An Anthology (editor, 2008), both published by Wiley Blackwell.
Reviews for A History of Modern Drama, Volume II: 1960 - 2000
David Krasner's A History of Modern Drama, Volume II: 1960-2000 offers... a structural and technique-based approach to differentiating dramatic eras. In his sequel to A History of Modern Drama, Volume I, Krasner shifts focus from dividing drama by time periods (i.e., modern and contemporary ) to categorizing dramatic eras according to their use of different formal techniques (i.e., modern and postmodern ). This is an important distinction, as book-length studies on postmodern drama are few. Krasner's Volume II makes this scholarly move feel like a logical step and a natural conclusion. This book will reinvigorate the study of postmodernism and drama. This is a worthy and important volume that should be read by anyone who teaches theatre history and/or modern and postmodern drama courses. - Michael Y. Bennett, Modern Drama