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Twenty-First Century American Playwrights
The early years of the twenty-first century saw several losses for the American theatre but also marked the emergence of a new generation of exciting playwrights. In this book, Christopher Bigsby explores the work of nine of these developing talents, and the importance of issues including race, gender and politics for their writing. Increasingly, these new figures are gaining their reputations not on Broadway but in small theatres and small towns or even abroad, bringing fresh and diverse perspectives to contemporary American drama. With a focus on female writers and on issues of personal and public identity in contemporary society, this volume investigates the styles and techniques these playwrights favour, the themes they raise, and their role in a changing America and a changing world.
Arthur Miller
The second volume in the definitive biography of the acclaimed playwright
Writers in Conversation
WRITERS IN CONVERSATION compiles Christopher Bigsby's interviews with the world's greatest writers from a decade of the Arthur Miller Centre's International Literary Festival at the University of East Anglia. These often candid, in-depth, witty and illuminating exchanges shine a light on the craft and profession of the working writer today. Volume 4 features interviews with David Leavitt, Doris Lessing, Penelope Lively, David Lodge, Javier Marias, Blake Morrison, Toni Morrison, John Mortimer, Michael Ondaatje, Stephen Poliakoff, Irina Ratushinskaya, Salman Rushdie, Nawal El Saadawi, Jane Smiley, Alexander McCall Smith, Tom Stoppard, Graham Swift, Amy Tan, Colm Toibin, Claire Tomalin with Michael Frayn, Rose Tremain, Jane Urquhart, Peter Ustinov and Shirley Williams.
American Dramatists in the 21st Century
"Analyzing the work of 7 American playwrights whose careers began in the present century, each chapter of this book focuses on a different playwright: David Adjmi, Julia Cho, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Will Eno, Martyna Majok, Dominique Morisseau and Anna Ziegler. In addition to covering all their works, and providing a sense of their critical reception, Bigsby also includes brand new interviews with the playwrights themselves, and exclusive discussions of unpublished works, the texts having been supplied by the authors. Bigsby argues that the diverse range of racial, religious, gendered, and, in several instances, immigrant backgrounds from which these playwrights come means that they all see A...
Aunt Ester’s Children Redeemed
August Wilson (1945-2005) wrote one play for every decade of the twentieth century that explored black life in America for the descendants of slaves. All of his characters seek wholeness, identity, and reconstituted selves after the terror of 250 years chattel slavery and its terrifying legacy. Their history, culture, wisdom, joys, triumphs, pain, sufferings, victories, weaknesses, and strengths are all embodied in one character, Aunt Ester. She is as old as the number of years blacks have been on these shores. All of the characters in the ten-play cycle are her children. Their search is through circumstance and adventure, certainly. This author demonstrates how Wilson uses language--poetry, the blues--to bring each play's characters to a point of wholeness, redemption, and freedom, not from history, but ennobled and strengthened by it. Wilson employs fundamental theological doctrines to exhort Aunt Ester's children to remember by whom and how they were freed and made whole.
Arthur Miller
Drawing on extensive interviews and rehearsal material, Christopher Bigsby explores the entirety of Arthur Miller's work (plays, poetry, fiction and films) up to the present in this comprehensive and stimulating study. This is an enjoyable insight into a great playwright that will interest both theatregoers and students of modern drama.
The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett
The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett offers an accessible introduction to issues animating the field of Beckett studies today.
The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales
An international team of scholars explores the historical origins, cultural dissemination and continuing literary and psychological power of fairy tales.
The Cambridge Companion to the Novel
This Companion focuses on the novel as a global genre and examines its role, impact and development.
