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Showing 1 to 20 of 184 for “"Playwrights"”.
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Selected twentieth-century American playwrights on tragedy
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Speech, 1958
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An historical and analytical study of the Playwrights' Company
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Speech, 1963
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The Lost Tribe in the Mirror: Playwrights of Northern Ireland
… Marie Jones has been one of several woman playwrights who have been struggling for representation in Irish Theater, and chapter five examines her career as she sought to ""dig-out"" Belfast's lesser known stories."
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When Oppressed Women Attack: Female-Enacted Violence Through Minority American Female Playwrights' Works
… selected works of three American minority female playwrights: Suzan-Lori Parks' In the Blood, Maria Irene Fornes' Conduct of Life, and Young Jean Lee's Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven, I will analyze the female-enacted violence that occurs within these plays using feminist theories and …
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Representing the 'Crisis' in Masculinity : British and North American Male Playwrights, 1990-2005.
The concept of a '"crisis" in masculinity' came to prominence in Britain and North America during the 1990s. This phenomenon developed out of several decades in which the notion of 'the subject' came under critical scrutiny, both from developments in postmodern and post-structuralist theory, and …
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Staging the sex wars : contemporary American playwrights through the prism of feminist conflict
… by examining one work by each of seven playwrights and two performance artists who have transcribed their work, namely, Miriam's Flowers by Migdalia Cruz, Abundance by Beth Henley, Bitter Cane by Genny Lim, Traveler in the Dark by Marsha Norman, The Death of the Last BlackMan in the …
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The Crew / of Common Playwrights: Collaboration and Authorial Community in the Early Modern Theater
… and also a place for the profession itself, playwrights needed to work toward the often contradictory goals of self-promotion and of validation of the profession at large. I confront this paradox by examining details about the backgrounds and careers of the twenty-nine professional …
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Thematic Concerns of Post-Colonial Playwrights in Nigeria: Relevant Theatre as a trend in recent Nigerian plays
While Nigerian playwrights active since independence are generally classified by their generation, this thesis argues that plays published since 1999 by members of different generations share common characteristics. Nigerian theatre underwent a change after 1999, the year when democratic government …
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Playwrights on the Threshold Between Stage and Study: paratexts and polemical texts in seventeenth century French theater
… in the paratextual and polemical spaces where playwrights communicate directly with their public. Based on prefaces, dedications, and related materials from over 210 plays by 70 authors from 1630 to1680, the analysis begins by re-reading the famous Quarrel of the Cid. In Chapter 1, I …
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Between generations: the construction of mother-daughter relationships in the work of black women playwrights in Britain
… in the work of contemporary Black British female playwrights such as Winsome Pinnock, Trish Cooke, Paulette Randall, Maya Chowdry, J. B. Rose, Tanika Gupta, Rukhsana Ahmad, Jackie Kay, Grace Dayley, Jacqueline Rudet, Maria Oshodi and Zindika2. My thesis is thus about the construction of …
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Battles of the sexes onstage: explorations of changing Gender roles by four American women playwrights of the 1910s-1930s
… of Changing Gender Roles by Four American Women Playwrights of the 1910s-1930s analyzes plays by Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Sophie Treadwell, and Dawn Powell in order to discover how these playwrights dealt with changing female social roles throughout the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s. To provide …
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Performing ‘Chinese-Ness’: Articulating Identities-Of-Becoming In The Works Of Four Sinophone Theatre Director-Playwrights In The 1980S
… of four important diasporic theatre director-playwrights - Gao Xingjian (China), Stan Lai (Taiwan), Danny Yung (Hong Kong) and Kuo Pao Kun (Singapore). I focus on the problem of "Chinese-ness," arguing that the foregoing dramatists share an interest in problematizing essentialist notions of …
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Women in African Drama: Representation and role
… in Society; The Portrayal of Women by Major Playwrights. Part I follows a thematic approach aimed at examining the position of women in three different areas which form the chapters for the part : Women, Tradition and Social Change; The Urban Woman and Women in Politics. Part II of the thesis …
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Revolutions Off Off Broadway, 1959-1969: A Critical Study of Changes in Structure, Character, Language, and Theme in Experimental Drama in New York City
… and theme that make the dramaturgy of certain playwrights writing for the Off Broadway theatre during the 1960s revolutionary in contrast to the dramaturgy of the majority of American playwrights of the 1950s. The playwrights under discussion include George Birimisa, Kenneth Bernard, Kenneth …
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Transnational Feminism in 21st Century Black American Drama and Performance
… explores twenty-first century works from playwrights who I group together loosely under the current transnational moment of playwriting. I include works from Tarell Alvin McCraney, Danai Gurira, Nikkole Salter, Lynn Nottage, Robert O’Hara, and Katori Hall. My primary aims are to extend due …
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“We've All To Grow Old”: Representations of Agingas Reflections of Cultural Change on the Celtic Tiger Irish Stage
… dissertation discusses the work of four Irish playwrights: Sebastian Barry, Marina Carr, Conor McPherson, and Elaine Murphy. Specifically, it investigates the inclusion, by these playwrights, of “elderly” characters in their plays written between 1995 and 2010—a period of …
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Directing Billy Shaw
An examination of the thoughts of playwrights who have directed their own plays and their thoughts on the subject. Then an examination of the problems of directing a play I have written and how the examination of what other playwrights who have directed a play they have written guided me during the …
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Moliere And Commedia Dell'arte:past, Present, And Future
… Comedy. It is important to discuss Roman comedic playwrights Plautus and Terence as two major influences on both the style of commedia dell'arte as well as major influences on Molière and his writing. A description of both playwrights previously mentioned will be given as means to explore …
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A Stage for a Bima: American Jewish Theater and the Politics of Representation
… examines how contemporary American Jewish playwrights and performers have presented Jewish identities in light of multiculturalism. Although American Jews have by large been supporters of the multicultural movement, in practice multiculturalism has been problematic for Jews because of its …
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