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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Fisher, James (1950-....)
Titre(s) : The theater of Tony Kushner [Texte électronique] : living past hope / James Fisher
Publication : New York : Routledge, 2001
Description matérielle : 1 online resource (xii, 274 pages)
Collection : Studies in Modern Drama
Note(s) : The Theater of Tony Kushner is a comprehensive portrait of the life and work of one
of America's most important contemporary playwrights.
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780203055328
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45127954v
Notice n° :
FRBNF45127954
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: The Feathers and the Mirrors and the Smoke ; 1 --. Great Work Begins:
A Short Biography ; 14 --. Grief Pushes Outward: Yes Yes No No ; 16 -- ; Chapter 1.
Past Heaven, through the Earth, to Hell: A Bright Room Called Day ; 21 -- ; Chapter
2. Progress of Death in the Land of Pure Delight: Hydriotaphia, or The Death of Dr.
Browne ; 38 -- ; Chapter 3. Troubling the Waters: Angels in America. A Gay Fantasia
on National Themes ; 54 --. Angel of History: Millennium Approaches ; 60 --. Living
Past Hope: Perestroika ; 75 -- ; Chapter 4. What Is to Be Done?: Slavs! Thinking About
the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness ; 93 -- ; Chapter 5. Transformations
and Convergences: Kushner's Adaptations ; 111 --. Heart Chases Memory: The Illusion
; 112 --. A Play for Lovers: Stella ; 121 --. Give Me Meaning: St. Cecilia, or The
Power of Music ; 127 --. Into the Desert: Grim(m) ; 134 --. Between Two Worlds: A
Dybbuk ; 139 --. For the World Must Be Happy: The Good Person of Setzuan ; 151 --.
Waiting by the River: Widows ; 161 -- ; Chapter 6. An Undoing World: Kushner's One-Acts
; 169 --. And Then You'll Know Suffering: It's an Undoing World or Why Should It Be
Easy When It Can Be Hard? Notes on My Grandma for Actors, Dancers and a Band ; 169
--. Strategies of Resistance: Notes on Akiba ; 175 --. Transmutation of Horror into
Meaning: Reverse Transcription. Six Playwrights Bury a Seventh, A Ten-Minute Play
That's Nearly Twenty Minutes Long ; 178 --. To Be with You Alone: Terminating, or
Lass Meine Schmerzen Nicht Verloren Sein, or Ambivalence ; 182 --. Swimming in Guilt:
G. David Schine in Hell ; 185 --. My Tight-Wound Soul: And the Torso Even More So
; 188 --. Marvelous Dislocations: Home Body/Kabul ; 188 -- ; Chapter 7. Great Work
Continues: Screenplays, Activism, and Future Projects ; 194 --. Collective Expression:
East Coast Ode to Howard Jarvis ; 195 --. Never Oh Never Oh Never Forget: Caroline,
or Change ; 198 --. Forget Not the Unhappy: Henry Box Brown, or The Mirror of Slavery
; 206 --. Pessimism of the Intellect: Politics and Activism ; 208 --. Optimism of
the Will: Future Projects ; 212 -- ; Appendix. Production History ; 215.