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Viewing America

Viewing America

C. W. E. Bigsby

Christopher Bigsby explores the potential of television drama to offer a radical critique of American politics, myths and values.
Modern American Drama, 1945-2000

Modern American Drama, 1945-2000

C. W. E. Bigsby

In this new edition of the widely-acclaimed Modern American Drama, Christopher Bigsby completes his survey of postwar and contemporary theatre and brings the reader up to 2000.
Contemporary American Playwrights

Contemporary American Playwrights

C. W. E. Bigsby

Christopher Bigsby explores the works and influences of ten contemporary American playwrights: John Guare (House of Blue Leaves), Tina Howe (Museum and Approaching Zanzibar), Pulitzer Prize and Tony award winner Tony Kushner (Angels in ...
Neil LaBute: Stage and Cinema

Neil LaBute: Stage and Cinema

C. W. E. Bigsby

The first full-length study of the work of the American playwright and director Neil LaBute.
Writers Between the Covers: The Scandalous Romantic Lives of ...

Writers Between the Covers: The Scandalous Romantic Lives of ...

Joni Rendon

Necessarily Pretty,” February 6, Ingewasagreat relief: Bigsby, Arthur Miller, 663. neither more norless autobiographical: Miller, Timebends, 521. the best of my life: SusanC.W.Abbotson, CriticalCompanion to Arthur Miller: A Literary Reference ...
Arthur Miller: A Critical Study

Arthur Miller: A Critical Study

C. W. E. Bigsby

An insightful study of Arthur Miller's work.
Plays by Susan Glaspell

Plays by Susan Glaspell

Susan Glaspell

Susan Glaspell C. W. E. Bigsby, Christine Dymkowski. the theatre, participating as the Midwest Director of the Federal Theatre Project from 1936-8, but it was, for the most part, as a novelist that she concluded her career, her last book - Judd ...
A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: ...

A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: ...

C. W. E. Bigsby

135. 7 Ellen Moers, Literary Women: The Great Writers (New York, 1978), p. 3. 8 Ibid., p. 15. 9 Honor Moore, The New Women's Theatre (New York, 1977), p. 512. 10 Ibid., p. 507. 11 Mary Ellman, Thinking About Women (New York, 1968), p.
British and Irish Political Drama in the Twentieth Century: ...

British and Irish Political Drama in the Twentieth Century: ...

David Ian Rabey

Implicating the Audience David Ian Rabey. 14. C. W. E. Bigsby, 'The Language of Crisis in British Theatre: The Drama of Cultural Pathology' in his selection of essays Contemporary English Drama (1981) p. 43. 15. Martin Esslin, Brecht: A ...

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