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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"American plays"”.
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"""Off -Louisville"": The History of the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville"
… its reputation of featuring America's best plays?
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"""Off-Louisville"": The History of the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville"
… Theatre's success is the Humana Festival of New American plays. Given the reputation as a ""playwright's theatre"" due to its commitment to the development of new works, the Humana Festival of New American Plays has provided Actors Theatre of Louisville with an international reputation for …
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Before Crenshaw: a historiographical look at intersectional identity in three twentieth-century American plays by Eaton, Grimké, and Treadwell
… model of theatre historiography. These plays were authored by twentieth century female playwrights who had similar intersectional lives as the leads discussed. Yuki, from the 1901 novel turned 1903 Broadway play <em>A Japanese Nightingale</em>, was crafted by Winnifred Eaton. Yuki’s …
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Mnemopoetics. Memory and Slavery in African-American Drama (1939-1996)
… and contextual analysis of selected African American plays, I have probed the various mnemopoetic strategies used by the playwrights to explore a past branded by the experience of slavery. The mnemopoetics of slavery appears to be irreducibly linked to a militant mnemopolitics of identity.
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The quest for identity of African American women from 1939 to 2000 in postmodern American Drama
… conducted to explore the oppression of African American women as well as to determine how their identity was in a struggle to gain in a selection of Postmodern American plays. Sharing the experiences of African American women and their black community of that time, represented as a journey …
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The dialogism of self and other in contemporary American drama
… in orientation and brings together American theatre (and culture) and contemporary ethical philosophy. I am introducing the French philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas and his theory of Self and Other to an analysis of contemporary American drama—a mode of approach that is new to the …
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De Cortés al Mago de Oz: Estrategias posmodernas en el teatro latinoamericano: 1980-1992
This work analyzes nine postmodern Latin American plays written between 1980 and 1992. A series of strategies including the combination of elite and mass culture, the mixture of various literary and nonliterary genres, anachronism, ahistoricity, metafiction, transvestism and parody are used by the …
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A Portrayal of Gender and a Description of Gender Roles in Selected American Modern and Postmodern Plays.
… defined in a selection of Modern and Postmodern American plays. This study was based on the symbolic interaction theory of gender that suggests that social roles are learned over time and are subject to constant reinforcement. The significance of this study was derived from the broad topic of …
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Beyond Playthings: Materiality and Embodiment on the Modern Stage
… a dramaturgical force across a range of Anglo-American plays from the 'long' 1960s. Even though stage objects had long been a versatile tool of theatrical meaning-making, their utilization by several Anglophone playwrights in the post-war era sharply demonstrates their ability to forge and …
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Bumpkin rising: the development of American identity through the country bumpkin character in American manners plays
… character type is analyzed as a reflection of American identity. In the English tradition, the country bumpkin is often the object of ridicule because of his ignorance and buffoonish mistakes, but in America this type morphs into a freedom loving character imbued with common sense, a strong …