Overview

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 in the Sun, the Rattigan centenary revivals, Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, ultimately arriving at Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. Taking each modern play as the starting point, Zinman explores the diverse renderings and reworkings by subsequent playwrights and artists –including prominent directors and their controversial productions as well as acknowledging reworkings in film, opera and ballet.Through the course of this groundbreaking study we discover not only how theatrical styles have changed but how society’s attitude towards politics, religion, money, gender, sexuality and race have radically altered over the course of the century. In turn Replay reveals how theatre can serve as both a reflection of our times and a provocation to them.

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Author:   Prof. Toby Zinman (Professor of English, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Methuen Drama
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.481kg
ISBN:  

9781408182680

ISBN 10:   1408182688
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   20 November 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION Georg Buchner Woyzeck Notable Productions and Replays PART ONE: You can be better! 1. Henrik Ibsen A Doll's House Replays Hedda Gabler Replays 2. George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion Replays 3. Bertolt Brecht Mother Courage and Her Children Replays 4. Harley Granville Barker The Voysey Inheritance Replays A Farewell to the Theatre Replays 5. Terence Rattigan The Winslow Boy Replays The Browning Version Replays The Sleeping Prince Replays 6. Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman Replays 7. Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun Replays PART TWO: Nothing to be done. 8. August Strindberg Miss Julie Replays The Dance of Death Replays 9. Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest Replays 10. Anton Chekhov Uncle Vanya Replays Three Sisters Replays Composite Chekhov 11. Thornton Wilder Our Town Replays 12. Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire Replays 13. Eugene Ionesco The Chairs Replays 14. Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot Replays The prison productions CONCLUSION Alphabetical Listing of Plays and Productions Index

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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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