Download or read book A Private Mythology written by Gabrielle Robinson and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Whiting is shown to involve all his heroes in a monumental attack and immediate collapse, after which they retreat into exile with recluses. Seeking romantic rebellion, but unable to leave the protection of their sanctuaries, they live incoherently amid their dreams and anxieties.

Download or read book JOHN WHITING THE AGONY OF THE ABSURD written by Dr. Apeksha and published by Kripa Drishti Publications. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a complete and comprehensive projection of John Whiting as an absurdist playwright. It is a round and unvarnished story of a prodigious playwright who within a short span of his life, did much to outshine his contemporaries. His journey was not limited to stage and theatre. He also wrote for the films, television and even radio. The journey began with The Conditions of Agreement in 1946 and ended with The Devils in 1961. In between he wrote many landmark plays through which one can trace the evolutionary trajectory of a legend in the making who was a confluence of mind and mystery, love and revenge, sentimentality and blood lust. His plays are replete with sin and sleaze, callousness and collusion. This was because in Whiting, one also comes across the diminution of norms owning to ethical elasticity and dispensability of principles. In his plays the pathology of power is matched by the ethos of human failings as is exemplified by the rise and fall of Grandier in The Devils. Here the banality of power fails to keep distance between pretense and principles. Bereft of the romance of renewal and predictability, many of his plays end up on disjointed note in the best tradition of the theatre of the absurd. The playwright's obsession with pre-mediated violence creates a disconnect between storyline and characterization. In practically every plays of Whiting creates a heady cocktail of fear, violence, loathing and paranoia and yet they make for a compelling reading. This book is a summary of my findings regarding John Whiting with terse comments on his qualities as an absurdist playwright. It has been my endeavor to assess him both as a literary figure and a playwright, wedded to the absurdist tradition.

Download or read book Stages in the Revolution written by Catherine Itzin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1980, is a comprehensive study of the radical theatre movement in Britain from 1968 to 1978. The essays are based on first-hand interviews, with each section being introduced with a summary of key events before detailing the artists under examination.

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Download or read book 1956 and All that written by Dan Rebellato and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first serious challenge to the mythology that surrounds the revolution in British theatre sparked off by Osborne's play Look Back in Anger.

Download or read book The Art of the Dramatist written by John Whiting and published by London : London Magazine Editions. This book was released on 1970 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Plays of David Hare written by Carol Homden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-03-09 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1995 book examines the work of David Hare including screenplays and the plays he has written for the Royal National Theatre.

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Download or read book Inversion written by Eric Durchholz and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slip into something uncomfortable. You do not become who you want to be by remaining who you are. A straight boy seduction goes wrong. A goddess of technology is brought to life. A pious father denies his daughter medicine. An ambitious demon has designs on the Earth and beyond. Bizarre, baffling, sexy and sublime, this first entry in the iNVERSION series hits like a slap in the face, weaving the supernatural and the natural into a thrilling, bracing, all-inclusive vision of the afterlife where no one gets left behind.

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Download or read book British Realist Theatre written by Stephen Lacey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British `New Wave' of dramatists, actors and directors in the late 1950s and 1960s created a defining moment in post-war theatre. British Realist Theatre is an accessible introduction to the New Wave, providing the historical and cultural background which is essential for a true understanding of this influential and dynamic era. Drawing upon contemporary sources as well as the plays themselves, Stephen Lacey considers the plays' influences, their impact and their critical receptions. The playwrights discussed include: * Edward Bond * John Osborne * Shelagh Delaney * Harold Pinter

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Download or read book English Drama Since 1940 written by David Ian Rabey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Drama Since 1940 considers the bids of successive post-war dramatists to find language and images of remorseless disclosure, appropriate to the public manifestation of sensed crisis and the interrogation of the ideal of renewal. This book introduces the period and its discourse whilst redefining them, to give proper consideration to developments of themes, styles, concerns and contexts from the 80s to the present. The book offers succinct and analytical introductions to the work of 60 dramatists, whilst arguing for (re)appraisal of many dates critical perspectives, in order to stimulate further argument in the field.