The Cambridge History of American Theatre, Volume 3: Post WWII To 1990's - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521669596 ISBN 13: 9780521669597

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Volume 3 of this authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theater examines the theater after World War II, through Broadway and beyond, as well as regional theater across the country. Contributors also analyze new directions in theater design, directing, and acting, as well as key plays and playwrights through the 1990s.

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Book Description:

This is an authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theatre from theatre building to playwriting, directors, performers, and designers. It addresses the economic context and approaches its subject with an awareness of literary criticism, cultural analysis, and performance theory. All volumes include an extensive overview and timeline. Volume Three examines the theatre after World War II, through Broadway and beyond and into regional theatre across the country. Contributors also analyse new directions in theatre design, directing, and acting, as well as key plays and playwrights through the 1990s.

About the Author:

Don B. Wilmeth is Emeritus Professor of Theater and English at Brown University.

Don B. Wilmeth is Emeritus Professor of Theater and English at Brown University.

Christopher Bigsby is Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts, he is an award-winning academic, novelist and biographer and has published more than forty books, including six novels. His first novel, Hester (1995), won the McKitterick Prize and Beautiful Dreamer (2002) was an American Library Association Notable Book. With Don Wilmeth, he won the Bernard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History and the George Freedley Jury Award for The Cambridge History of American Theatre (1998 2000). His biography of Arthur Miller was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Sheridan Morley Prize and the George Freedley Memorial Award and was co-winner of the American Studies Network Prize. The founding director of the Arthur Miller Centre for American Studies, he has presented its International Literary Festival for twenty years. For many years he was a presenter of programmes for BBC radio ranging from Radio 4's Kaleidoscope and Off the Page through to World Service's Meridian.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0521669596
• ISBN 13: 9780521669597
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 600
• Editor: Wilmeth Don B., Bigsby Christopher