The Adrienne Kennedy reader
Adrienne Kennedy has been a force in American theatre since the early 1960s, influencing generations of playwrights with her hauntingly fragmentary lyrical dramas. Exploring the violence racism visits upon people's lives, Kennedy's plays express poetic alienation, transcending the particulars of character and plot through ritualistic repetition and radical structural experimentation. The Adrienne Kennedy Reader is the first comprehensive collection of works by one of our greatest living playwri…
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- Full title :The Adrienne Kennedy reader / Adrienne Kennedy ; introduction by Werner Sollors.
Summary
Adrienne Kennedy has been a force in American theatre since the early 1960s, influencing generations of playwrights with her hauntingly fragmentary lyrical dramas. Exploring the violence racism visits upon people's lives, Kennedy's plays express poetic alienation, transcending the particulars of character and plot through ritualistic repetition and radical structural experimentation. The Adrienne Kennedy Reader is the first comprehensive collection of works by one of our greatest living playwrights.
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- Publication Date:©2001.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Minnesota Press
- Place of Publication:Minneapolis
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2001.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xv, 308 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780816691708, 0816691703
- oclc:ocn614925604
- LC Classification:PS3561.E4252
- Dewey Decimal:812/.54
Table of Contents
Introduction / Werner Sollors -- Because of the King of France -- Adrienne Kennedy in One Act. Funnyhouse of a Negro. On the Writing of Funnyhouse of a Negro. The Owl Answers. A Lesson in Dead Language. A Rat's Mass. Sun. A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White. Electra (Euripides). Orestes (Euripides) -- An Evening with Dead Essex -- The Alexander Plays. She Talks to Beethoven. Ohio State Murders. The Film Club (A Monologue by Suzanne Alexander). Dramatic Circle -- Letter to My Students on My Sixty-first Birthday by Suzanne Alexander -- Motherhood 2000 -- Secret Paragraphs about My Brother -- June and Jean in Concert (Concert of Their Lives) -- A Letter to Flowers -- Sisters Etta and Ella (excerpt from a narrative) -- Grendel and Grendel's Mother.
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