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MEDE REPLAY CLASSIC MODERN DRAMA R
Zinman Toby
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Description for MEDE REPLAY CLASSIC MODERN DRAMA R
Paperback. "A study of the many reworkings and adaptations of classic plays on the modern stage which illuminates how each is shaped by or reacts against the prevailing mores of the day"-- Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
Replay: Classic Modern Drama Reimagined spans over a century of great theatre to explore how iconic plays have been adapted and versioned by later writers to reflect or dissect the contemporary zeitgeist. Starting with A Doll’s House, Ibsen’s much-reprised masterpiece of marital relations from 1879, Toby Zinman explores what made the play so controversial and shocking in its day before tracing how later reimaginings have reworked Ibsen’s original. The spine of plays then includes such landmark works as Strindberg’s Miss Julie, Oscar Wilde’s comic The Importance of Being Earnest, Chekhov’s Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya, Hansberry’s A Raisin ... Read more
Replay: Classic Modern Drama Reimagined spans over a century of great theatre to explore how iconic plays have been adapted and versioned by later writers to reflect or dissect the contemporary zeitgeist. Starting with A Doll’s House, Ibsen’s much-reprised masterpiece of marital relations from 1879, Toby Zinman explores what made the play so controversial and shocking in its day before tracing how later reimaginings have reworked Ibsen’s original. The spine of plays then includes such landmark works as Strindberg’s Miss Julie, Oscar Wilde’s comic The Importance of Being Earnest, Chekhov’s Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya, Hansberry’s A Raisin ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408182697
SKU
V9781408182697
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About Zinman Toby
Toby Zinman is Professor of English, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA, and theatre critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer and Variety.
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