Drama : American

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur''s Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The work is a very early example of time travel in literature, anticipating by six years H. G. Wells'' The Time Machine of 1895 (however, unlike Wells, Twain does not give any real explanation of his protagonist''s travelling in time). Some early editions are entitled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. — Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Intuitive navigation. . Text annotation and mark-up. . more...

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This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts that experiment with form and content, discussing influential playwrights and performance artists such as Tennessee Williams, Adrienne Kennedy, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Charles Ludlum, Anna Deavere Smith, Karen Finley and Will Power, alongside avant-garde theatre groups. Saddik traces the development of contemporary drama since 1945, and discusses the cross-cultural impact of postwar British and European innovations on American theatre from the 1950s to the present day in order to examine the performance of American identity. She argues that contemporary American theatre is primarily a postmodern drama of inclusion and diversity that destabilizes the notion of fixed identity and questions the nature of reality. more...

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In "The Dolliver Romance," only three chapters of which the author lived to complete, we get an intimation as to what would have been the ultimate form given to that romance founded on the Elixir of Life, for which "Septimius Felton" was the preliminary study. Having abandoned this study, and apparently forsaken the whole scheme in 1862, Hawthorne was moved to renew his meditation upon it in the following year; and as the plan of the romance had now seemingly developed to his satisfaction, he listened to the publisher''s proposal that it should begin its course as a serial story in the "Atlantic Monthly" for January, 1864--the first instance in which he had attempted such a mode of publication. Contents:. Introductory Note. The Dolliver Romance. A Scene From The Dolliver Romance. Another Scene From The Dolliver Romance. Another Fragment Of The Dolliver Romance. Sketches From Memory: -I- | -II- | -III-. Fragments From The Journal of a Solitary Man: -I- | -II-. Other Tales And Sketches: My Visit To Niagara | The Antique Ring | The Legend | Graves And Goblins. Dr. Bullivant. A Book of Autographs. An Old Woman''s Tale. Time''s Portraiture. "Browne''s Folly.". Appendix:. Nathaniel Hawthorne Biography. Intuitive navigation. . Text annotation and mark-up. more...

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Joyce''s Irish experiences constitute an essential element of his writings, and provide all of the settings for his fiction and much of their subject matter. His early volume of short stories, Dubliners, is a penetrating analysis of the stagnation and paralysis of Dublin society. The final and most famous story in the collection, "The Dead," was made into a feature film in 1987, directed by John Huston (it was Huston''s last major work). Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This booktable of contents linked to every story. . more...

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Gentlemen Callers provides a fascinating look at America's greatest Twentieth-century playwright and perhaps the most-performed, even today. Michael Paller looks at Tennessee Williams's plays from the 1940s through the 1960s against the backdrop of the playwright's life story, providing fresh details. more...

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