S.N. Behrman : a research and production sourcebook

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S.N. Behrman : a research and production sourcebook

Robert F. Gross

(Modern dramatists research and production sourcebooks, no. 3)

Greenwood Press, 1992

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [79]-180) and indexes

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内容説明

Behrman's prolific career as a Broadway playwright and Hollywood screenwriter spans a period from the 1920s to the mid-1960s. As a writer for popular performance, he had to contend with commercial influences and with producers and directors involved in the dynamics of the collaborative process. Though eminently successful, his works have not received adequate critical scrutiny. His ouevre probably will never be fully determined because of collaboration, numerous rewrites, and the many unpublished and unproduced plays and scripts. Author Robert F. Gross here provides an immensely detailed record of the primary materials, published and unpublished, including plays, filmscripts, fiction, and essays, and of the critical response, both reviews and analytical studies. Focusing on Behrman as a dramatist, Gross has written extensive plot summaries and critical overviews for each of fifty-one plays. Where applicable, full production credits are given for premieres and revivals, and references are made to reviews and commentary about specific productions as well as to the plays in general. The annotated secondary bibliography is divided into chronologically organized sections for reviews and for books, parts of books, and articles. Fully cross-referenced, the material is also accessible through an author index to the secondary bibliography and a general subject index. In an opening appraisal, Gross expresses his appreciation for Behrman, whose high comedies he finds to be informed by a probing ethical conscience and whose goal of scrupulosity he emulates in his own work. This scrupulous playwright is here given his due in a comprehensive sourcebook of value for theatre historians and theatre professionals.

目次

Primary Bibliography Secondary Bibliography: Reviews A Note on Codes and Numbering Chronology S.N. Behrman: An Appreciation The Plays: Summaries, Productions, and Critical Overviews Secondary Bibliography: Books, Articles, Sections Author Index: Secondary Bibliographies General Index

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