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 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 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 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 The Adding Machine written by Elmer Rice and published by Samuel French Incorporated Plays. This book was released on 1956 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This constantly interesting play shows, in outline, the life history and, in its later scenes, the death history of Mr. Zero, a cog in the vast machine of modern business -- from cover.
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 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:
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 The Facts on File Companion to American Drama written by Jackson R. Bryer and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.
Download or read book Elmer Rice written by Elma Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 210 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 American Realism and American Drama 1880 1940 written by Brenda Murphy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-08-27 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of Native American realism is traced through a study of the evolution of dramatic theory from the early 1890s through World War I and the uniquely American innovations in realistic drama between world wars.
Download or read book Anatomy of a Robot written by Despina Kakoudaki and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we find artificial people fascinating? Drawing from a rich fictional and cinematic tradition, Anatomy of a Robot explores the political and textual implications of our perennial projections of humanity onto figures such as robots, androids, cyborgs, and automata. In an engaging, sophisticated, and accessible presentation, Despina Kakoudaki argues that, in their narrative and cultural deployment, artificial people demarcate what it means to be human. They perform this function by offering us a non-human version of ourselves as a site of investigation. Artificial people teach us that being human, being a person or a self, is a constant process and often a matter of legal, philosophical, and political struggle. By analyzing a wide range of literary texts and films (including episodes from Twilight Zone, the fiction of Philip K. Dick, Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go, Metropolis, The Golem, Frankenstein, The Terminator, Iron Man, Blade Runner, and I, Robot), and going back to alchemy and to Aristotle’s Physics and De Anima, she tracks four foundational narrative elements in this centuries-old discourse— the fantasy of the artificial birth, the fantasy of the mechanical body, the tendency to represent artificial people as slaves, and the interpretation of artificiality as an existential trope. What unifies these investigations is the return of all four elements to the question of what constitutes the human. This focused approach to the topic of the artificial, constructed, or mechanical person allows us to reconsider the creation of artificial life. By focusing on their historical provenance and textual versatility, Kakoudaki elucidates artificial people’s main cultural function, which is the political and existential negotiation of what it means to be a person.
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 Watching the red dawn written by Barnaby Haran and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first sustained examination of the cultural relations of the American and Soviet avant-gardes in a period of major transformation.
Download or read book The American Theatrical Film written by John C. Tibbetts and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides needed information on the collaborations between filmmakers and theater personnel before 1930 and completes our understanding of how two art forms influenced each other. It begins with the vaudeville and "faerie" dramas captured in brief films by the Edison and Biograph companies; follows the development of feature-length Sarah Bernhardt and James O'Neill films after 1912; examines the formation of theater/film combination companies in 1914-15; and details later collaborations during the talking picture revolution of 1927. Includes detailed analyses of important theatrical films like The Count of Monte Cristo, The Virginian, Coquette, and Paramount on Parade.
Download or read book Staging Technology written by Craig N. Owens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an examination of a range of performance works ranging from Jean Cocteau's ballet The Eiffel Tower Wedding Party (1921) to Julie Taymor's monumental production of Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark (2010) and Mexican playwright Isaac Gomez's La Ruta(2018), Staging Technology asks what becomes visible when we encounter plays, operas, and musicals that are themselves about fraught human/machine interfaces. What can theatrical production tell us about the way technology functions as an element of ideology and power in narrative drama? About the limits of the human? Staging Technology bridges the divide between the technical practices of theatre production and critical, theoretical approaches to interpreting drama to examine the way dramatic theatre's technologies are shaped by larger historical, ideological, and economic forces. At the same time, it examines how those technologies themselves have influenced 20th and 21st-century playwrights', composers', and librettists' choice of subject matter for staged representation. Examining performance works from the modernist and post-modern European and American canon of drama, opera, and performance art including works by Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Heiner Müller, Sophie Treadwell, Harold Pinter, Tristan Tzara, Jean Cocteau, Arthur Miller, Robert Pinsky, John Adams and Alice Goodman, Staging Technology transforms how we think about the interrelationship between theatre practice, performance, narrative drama, and text. In it Craig N. Owens synthesizes approaches to interpretation and practice from disparate realms, offering insights into over-arching ways of making meaning that are illustrated through focused and innovative readings of individual works for the dramatic stage. Staging Technology provides a new and transformative paradigm for thinking about dramatic literature, the practices of representational theatre production, and the historical and social contexts they inhabit.
