Casebooks on Modern Dramatists

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1. Neil LaBute

   A Casebook

   By Gerald C. Wood

   Series: Casebooks on Modern Dramatists

   Neil LaBute: A Casebook is the first book to examine one of the most successful and controversial contemporary American playwrights and filmmakers. While he is most famous, and in some cases infamous, for his early films In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors, Labute is equally...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Contemporary African American Women Playwrights

   A Casebook

   Edited by Philip C. Kolin

   Series: Casebooks on Modern Dramatists

   'The impressive array of scholars gathered in this collection, all experts in the field, read the plays with nuance and situate them deftly within their cultural and historical contexts. Scholars of contemporary theater and drama and of African American literature will find value in this engaging...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Martin McDonagh

   A Casebook

   Edited by Richard Rankin Russell

   Series: Casebooks on Modern Dramatists

   This book represents the first collection of original critical material on Martin McDonagh, one of the most celebrated young playwrights of the last decade. Credited with reinvigorating contemporary Irish drama, his dark, despairing comedies have been performed extensively both on Broadway and in...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Suzan-Lori Parks

   A Casebook

   Edited by Kevin J. Wetmore Jr, Alycia Smith-Howard

   Series: Casebooks on Modern Dramatists

   Suzan-Lori Parks confirmed herself as one of the most exciting and successful playwrights of her generation when her work Topdog/Underdog was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, making her the only African American woman to win the award. Despite the cultural weight of this achievement, Parks...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. A.R. Gurney

   Edited by Arvid F. Sponberg

   Series: Casebooks on Modern Dramatists

   This is the first full-length study devoted to the art of A.R. Gurney, a major contemporary American playwright who has written over thirty plays, including Love Letters. This volume brings together original interviews with Gurney and four actors and a director who have worked closely with him, as...

   Published October 13th 2003 by Routledge
6. Edward Albee

   A Casebook

   By Bruce Mann

   Series: Casebooks on Modern Dramatists

   From the "angry young man" who wrote Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in 1962, determined to expose the emptiness of American experience to Tiny Alice which reveals his indebtedness to Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco's Theatre of the Absurd, Edward Albee's varied work makes it difficult to label...

   Published December 19th 2002 by Routledge
7. Joe Orton

   A Casebook

   Edited by Francesca Coppa

   Series: Casebooks on Modern Dramatists

   While writers, dramatists and film-makers have already found inspiration in Orton's colourful life story, this Casebook comprises the first collection of scholarly criticism to investigate the works, life and legacy of the controversial playwright....

   Published October 24th 2002 by Routledge
8. Beth Henley

   A Casebook

   Edited by Julia A. Fesmire

   Series: Casebooks on Modern Dramatists

   Published June 20th 2002 by Routledge
9. Pinter at 70

   A Casebook

   Edited by Lois Gordon

   Series: Casebooks on Modern Dramatists

   This comprehensive and authoritative casebook includes cornerstone essays on Pinter's creative process, his politics, film adaptations, and acting career. It also includes a collection of photos found nowhere else that document Pinter's "golden time"--his early acting days in Ireland--, a...

   Published August 30th 2001 by Routledge
10. August Wilson

    A Casebook

    Edited by Marilyn Elkins

    Series: Casebooks on Modern Dramatists

    Published February 29th 2000 by Routledge