Download or read book Plays of Elmer Rice Containing written by Elmer Rice and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plays of Elmer Rice written by Elmer Rice and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elmer Rice Three Plays written by Elmer Rice and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 1965-01-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elmer Rice belongs high on the roster of influential play-wrights. He has brought vitality and world attention to the American theatre. His plays have passed the test of endurance. "A veteran craftsman who knows his job...Rice is a showman who writes for the theatre rather than the library."--The New York Times
Download or read book Elmer Rice Three Plays written by Elmer Rice and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seven Plays by Elmer Rice written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Plays of Elmer Rice written by Levis H. Hampton and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seven Plays written by Elmer Rice and published by Viking. This book was released on 1950 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donated by Sydney Harris.
Download or read book The Adding Machine written by Elmer Rice and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elmer Rice written by Frank Durham and published by Irvington Publishers. This book was released on 1970 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Frank Rice, whose career in the American theater spanned half a century, was at his death in 1967 the 'Dean of American playwrights.' His initial Broadway success came in 1914 when Eugene O'Neill was known only as the son of the actor James O'Neill, and his last work was contemporary with that of Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and Edward Albee." - book jacket
Download or read book Adding Machine written by Joshua Schmidt and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adding machine: a musical / 5m, 4f, 3 musicians / various scenes -- tells the story of Mr. Zero, an unlikely anti-hero for the working man. Rewarded with a pink slip after 25 years in the same office. Zero kills his boss, gets executed, and winds up in the Elysian Fields, where he is given a last chance at love with Daisy Devore, his long-suffering secretary.
Download or read book The Winner written by Elmer Rice and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1954 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eva Harold, a lonely, small-town girl, is struggling to get on in New York. She is pretty, well brought up and admired by several men, one of whom, a young lawyer. David Browning, she hopes to marry, as soon as he disentangles himself from an unhappy marriage. One night a middle-aged millionaire who is infatuated by her comes to her apartment to try to persuade her to run off with him. While he is pleading with her, he suffers a heart attack and dies--but not before he hands her a new will leaving his entire estate to her. The dead man's wife contests the will and spreads such unpleasant publicity about Eva that in order to establish her innocence, she is forced to defend the will. The wife's attorney, martin Carew, a brilliant but dissolute man, puts Eva under continuous pressure to settle the case; and in the course of their long duel he becomes increasingly interested in her. Eva is finally vindicated and faces the happy prospect of possessing both money and a good name. But then another complication arises: The dead man has cheated the government on taxes for years, and his widow threatens exposure unless Eva agrees to buy her silence. Eva is forced to choose between abandoning her principles or giving up all she has fought for--and also between her fiance, David Browning, and his adversay, Carew. It is upon her decision that the final resolution of the play turns--Publisher's website.
Download or read book Elmer Rice a Playwright s Vision of America written by Anthony F. R. Palmieri and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough and detailed study of this playwright's remarkable long and productive career that stretched from 1914-1963, and included over 50 plays and a Pulitzer Prize. It establishes that Rice'e impact on the American theater probably surpasses that of any other American playwright.
Download or read book Elmer Rice written by Michael Vanden Heuvel and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1996-01-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the most outstanding and innovative playwrights of the 20th century, Elmer Rice made and sustained his reputation with a series of hit plays and provocative experimental work which, next to the output of Eugene O'Neill, remains the most varied canon of theatrical writing produced by an American dramatist. This reference book overviews his life and career and provides plot synopses and critical commentaries for his plays. The volume also provides cast and credit lists for major productions and an exhaustive bibliography of primary and secondary materials. When critics of the mid-twentieth century ranked American playwrights, they often had to pause before promoting Eugene O'Neill over Elmer Rice as first among his peers. Like O'Neill, Rice had an astoundingly long and productive life in the American theatre. He made and sustained his reputation with a series of hit plays and provocative experimental work which, next to the output of O'Neill, remains the most varied canon of dramatic literature produced by an American playwright. This reference book is a thorough guide to Rice's fascinating career. This book makes Rice's writings accessible to a wide audience and reveals just how extensive his works are. He was a voluminous writer of letters, articles, and diatribes as well as plays, memoirs, and novels. This sourcebook offers a chronology of his achievements, along with plot synopses and critical overviews of each produced or published play. Theatre researchers will find cast lists and an exhaustive bibliography of reviews of productions, while the listing of archival sources should be of help to those wishing to explore his canon in greater depth. The short biography illuminates Rice's involvement at all levels of cultural production, as a playwright, producer, director, teacher, and polemicist for various theatrical and political causes.
Download or read book Dream Girl written by Elmer Rice and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1950-10 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Tells of a delightful young woman who quite inefficiently runs a bookstore. She is one of those charming but dreamy, over-imaginative young women whom the slightest suggestion may send off into the most extravagant daydreams. In her own
Download or read book Love Among the Ruins written by Elmer Rice and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Supported by a grant, archaeologist Arthur Dewing, a man of sixty, and his wife Suzanne, who is half his age, are studying the Roman ruins at Baalbek in Lebanon. The site is visited by a group of American tourists; including a Protestant bishop, his wife and daughter; a spinster school teacher; an aggressive businessman type; and Suzanne's ex-husband, Neil. Having made a shamble of their marriage and his subsequent relationship, Neil begs Suzanne to return to him. Suzanne is torn between the safe, serene love she found with her husband and rekindled passion for Neil. As she weighs her dilemma the others begin to reveal themselves. The bishop and his wife lament their failure as parents, the school teacher confesses the arid loneliness of her life, and the businessman endangers them all by pursuing the young daughter of a fierce Bedouin who had come to their camp. By the time they must leave, little has been left unsaid and Suzanne has been offered her freedom by Arthur. Her decision, to stay with the wiser, better man, brings deepened insight to all of them and underscores the evolving truth that men must seek life's true values as individuals before they can hope to find answers to the problems which plague society."--Publisher's description.
Download or read book A Study Guide for Elmer Rice s Street Scene written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Elmer Rice's "Street Scene," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater written by James Fisher and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 1003 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From legends like Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller to successful present-day playwrights like Neil LaBute, Tony Kushner, and David Mamet, some of the most important names in the history of theater are from the past 80 years. Contemporary American theater has produced some of the most memorable, beloved, and important plays in history, including Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, Barefoot in the Park, Our Town, The Crucible, A Raisin in the Sun, and The Odd Couple. Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater presents the plays and personages, movements and institutions, and cultural developments of the American stage from 1930 to 2010, a period of vast and almost continuous change. It covers the ever-changing history of the American theater with emphasis on major movements, persons, plays, and events. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 1,500 cross-referenced dictionary entries. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the history of American theater.
