Living Theatre: A History - Hardcover

Wilson, Edwin; Goldfarb, Alvin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0072562579 ISBN 13: 9780072562576

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2003

Synopsis

Living Theatre: A History conveys the excitement and variety of theatre throughout time, as well as the dynamic way in which our interpretation of theatre history is informed by contemporary scholarship. Rather than presenting readers with a mere catalog of historical facts and figures, it sets each period in context through an exploration of the social, political and economic conditions of the day, creating a vivid study of the developments in theatre during that time.

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From the Publisher:

Seventeen new biographies have been added to this edition, including histories of Lope de Rueda, The Female Wits, Eva Le Gallienne, Anna Deveare Smith, and Wole Soyinka. These profiles provide details of personal histories in addition to productions, dates, and photographs.
Expanded discussions on current topics such as the excavations of the Globe and the Rose in London, and Professor John J. Allen's important work on the Corral del Principe in Madrid.
Revised throughout to reflect current scholarship, especially Chapter 4, Early Asian Theater.
New material on Contemporary theater, African American theater, and on Russian theater in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Debates in History: These brief essays focus on points of disagreement among scholars and historians, underscoring the fact that there are multiple interpretations of theater history.
Biography sections in every chapter focus on the artists who created theater. An integral part of the text, these sections are highlighted with photos, rather than set apart in boxes, so that the flow of Living Theateris not interrupted.
Timelines relate important dates in theater to significant events in politics, economics, and the other arts.
Maps give a sense of geographical context and indicate changing national boundaries over time.
A lively illustration program including photographs, plans, and drawings tied directly to the text.

About the Author:

Ed Wilson attended Vanderbilt, the University of Edinburgh, and Yale University where he received the first Doctor of Fine Arts degree awarded by Yale. He has taught at Vanderbilt, Yale, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Most recently he has been Executive Director of the Segal Theatre Center at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author or co-author of three of the most widely used college theater textbooks in the U. S. The tenth edition of his pioneer book, The Theater Experience was published in 2006 by McGraw-Hill. The sixth edition of his text Theater: The Lively Art (co-authored with Alvin Goldfarb) will be published by McGraw Hill in theDecember, 2006. The fourth edition of his theater history, Living Theatre: Histories of Theatre, (also co-authored with Alvin Goldfarb) will be published in December, 2006. He is also the editor of Shaw on Shakespeare, recently re-issued by Applause Books.He has produced plays on and off Broadway and served one season as the resident director of the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia. He also produced a feature film, The Nashville Sound, recently made available on DVD. He is the author of two original plays, a farce, The Bettinger Prize, and a play about Ponce de Leon, Waterfall. He wrote the book and lyrics for a musical version of Great Expectations. All three have been given a series of successful readings in New York City and elsewhere. Great Expectations was given a full production for three weeks in February and March, 2006, at the Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke, Virginia. He conceived the idea of a musical revue of the songs of Jerome Kern which had a well-received try-out production in the fall of 2004 at Catholic University in Washington, D. C. Ed has served a number of times on the Tony Nominating Committee and the Pulitzer Prize Drama Jury, most recently on the Pulitzer Jury in 2003. For twenty two years he was the theater critic of the Wall Street Journal. A long time member of the New York Drama Critics Circle, he was president of the Circle for several years. He is on the board of the John Golden Fund and was also for many years on the Board of the Theater Development Fund, of which he served as President.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0072562579
• ISBN 13: 9780072562576
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 672