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 The Collected Plays of John Whiting written by Ronald Hayman and published by . This book was released on 1969-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 The Collected Plays of John Whiting Conditions of agreement Saint s day A penny for a song Marching song written by John Whiting and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Collected Plays written by John Drinkwater and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Onstage Christ written by John Ditsky and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1980 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ditsky closely examines thirteen modern plays to elaborate patterns of "Christ-presence" as sacrificial victim, teacher, redeemer, benefactor, or martyr in a study ranging in time from Isben's The Wild Duck to Albee's The Zoo Story and Arden's Sergeant Musgrave's Dance.

Download or read book Chicorel Theater Index to Plays in Anthologies Periodicals Discs and Tapes written by Marietta Chicorel and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Play Index 1968 1972 written by Estelle A. Fidell and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bibliography of authors, titles, and subjects of thousands of plays, plus listings of cast analyses, publishers, and play anthologies.

Download or read book A Reader s Guide to Modern British Drama written by Sanford Sternlicht and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the influences of modern history and psychology on British drama; the all-important influence of Irish dramatists like Wilde, Shaw, O’Casey, and Beckett; the significance of the Independent Theatre of J. T. Grein and the early Royal Court Theatre; the gay community’s contribution to the British theater; the powerful new feminist drama; and the British festival theater. Auseful tool for readers wishing to know more about Britain’s great dramatic tradition and vital contemporary theater, for students pursuing drama studies, and for libraries in need of an accessible reference work.

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Download or read book The Drama Scholars Index to Plays and Filmscripts written by Gordon Samples and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press 1974-1986. This book was released on 1974 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ...The book can be a goldmine. --James Leverett, Theatre Communications ...With this second volume, the Drama Scholars' Index's indispensability is greatly increased. --Richard J. Kelly, ARBA

Download or read book The Methuen Book of Modern Monologues for Women written by Chrys Salt and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2004 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a selection of speeches for women drawn from the great landmark plays of the 20th century. An appreciation of each speech is enhanced by the editor's introductions and commentaries, which set the plays and individual speeches in their dramatic and performance context

Download or read book Buried Astrolabe written by Craig S. Walker and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2001-03-29 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Craig Walker devotes the main body of his work to critical readings of James Reaney, Michael Cook, Sharon Pollock, Michel Tremblay, George F. Walker, and Judith Thompson, respecting the distinctive elements of the writer's voice while helping the reader appreciate the cultural context that informs each play. He analyses the poetics or mythological underpinning of the works and investigates the cultural significance of the tropes that typify their works. The Buried Astrolabe stakes the claim of Canadian playwrights to be considered among the most important in the contemporary world.

Download or read book Brecht Unbound written by James K. Lyon and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Except for the annual Brecht Yearbook, Brecht Unbound represents the first broad critical study of Brecht's works to appear in the United States since before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Intended to move beyond the ideological considerations that have informed so much secondary literature about Brecht, the book is a cross-disciplinary reassessment of important aspects of his work. Included are essays on his poetry, drama, theoretical writings, Brecht's influence on American film techniques and music, his relationship to and borrowings from Japanese No theater, and a comparison between aesthetic techniques in his writings and Stravinsky's "The Little Soldier.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Download or read book A Selective Study of English History Plays in the Period Between 1960 and 1977 written by Maria Garstenauer and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Collected Works on Magic Witchcraft written by Bram Stoker and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 3680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a carefully assembled collection of books on witchery, witch trials, demonology and spiritualism: Introduction: The Superstitions of Witchcraft The Devil in Britain and America Witchcraft in Europe: History of Magic and Witchcraft: Magic and Witchcraft Lives of the Necromancers Witch, Warlock, and Magician Irish Witchcraft and Demonology Practitioners of Magic & Witchcraft and Clairvoyance Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch Sidonia, the Sorceress La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages Tales & Legends: Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland Witch Stories Studies: The Witch Mania The Witch-cult in Western Europe Witchcraft and Superstitious Record in the South-Western District of Scotland Modern Magic Witchcraft in America: Salem Trials: The Wonders of the Invisible World Salem Witchcraft Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Short History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Trials An Account of the Witchcraft Delusion at Salem in 1682 House of John Procter, Witchcraft Martyr, 1692 Studies: The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism On Witchcraft: Glimpses of the Supernatural – Witchcraft and Necromancy Letters On Demonology And Witchcraft