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Six Plays of Clifford Odets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 458

Six Plays of Clifford Odets

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Clifford Odets, Playwright-poet
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

Clifford Odets, Playwright-poet

This study takes a different approach to the work of poet-playwright Clifford Odets. Rather than focusing on biographical and political factors surrounding his works, Cantor provides a close reading of 11 of Odets' plays as a whole, grounding his study within an analysis of themes common to each text. While granting emphasis to Odets' poetic style, Cantor gives due notice to Odets' achievements as both mythmaker and voice of the Jewish middle class. Included are reprints of 'Sum and Substance, ' an interview with the writer conducted by the late Herman Harvey, and a 1998 interview by Cantor with actress/director Joanne Woodward, who has directed recent revivals of four of Odets' plays. Cantor also gives an account of other noted productions in order to illuminate the ways in which this visionary's style has influenced contemporary American theatre. Drawing both from previous works and his own research, Cantor presents a quintessential study of a prolific and influential literary artist. It will prove a useful and timely volume for scholars of theatre and American social history alike.

Clifford Odets, American Playwright
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 792

Clifford Odets, American Playwright

Presents the life of American playwright, Clifford Odets, focusing on his childhood, family, acting career, and the writing of his well-known dramas.

Clifford Odets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 168

Clifford Odets

Chapters on the plays, pointing out the allegorical overtones and demonstrating Odet's sympathy with the proletariat over the years.

Clifford Odets: the Thirties and After
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Clifford Odets: the Thirties and After

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Golden Boy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 92

Golden Boy

THE STORY: The Acting Edition contains notes showing how nearly all scene changes may be made with a minimum of effort. People are inclined to laugh at Joe, a moody young Italian with cockeyed notions. At heart a musician--he has a real talent for

Waiting for Lefty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 36

Waiting for Lefty

THE STORY: The action of the play is comprised of a series of varied, imaginatively conceived episodes, which blend into a powerful and stirring mosaic. The opening scene is a hiring hall where a union leader (obviously in the pay of the bosses) is trying to convince a committee of workers (who are waiting for their leader, Lefty, to arrive) not to strike. This is followed by a moving confrontation between a discouraged taxi driver, who cannot earn enough to live on, and his angry wife, who wants him to show some backbone and stand up to his employer; a revealing scene between a scheming boss and the young worker who refuses to spy on his fellow employees; a sad/funny episode centering on a ...

The Big Knife
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 84

The Big Knife

THE STORY: We witness the last few days of Charlie Castle, a top movie star and an idealist, whose years of compromise with his beliefs for the sake of a Hollywood career have resulted in the slow destruction of his personality. We see his struggle

Clifford Odets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Clifford Odets

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Clifford Odets and American Political Theatre
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

Clifford Odets and American Political Theatre

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-10-30
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  • Publisher: Praeger

This new consideration of Odets and his body of work reads his career - the work and the conditions of its invention - as cultural productions created during a time of political, social, and economic change.