Reading Stephen Sondheim: A Collection of Critical EssaysSandor Goodhart Routledge, 28 oct. 2013 - 304 pagini Stephen Sondheim is arguably the most important writer for the American musical stage today, the equivalent in his field of Miller, Albee, O'Neill, and Williams. Yet he has rarely been treated seriously within the academy. Reading Stephen Sondheim: A Collection of Critical Essays is an attempt to remedy that situation. Bringing together scholars and critics from a wide variety of literary and theoretical perspectives, this book undertakes to examine all of Sondheim's major productions and themes. |
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Pagina xvi
... George Gershwin and Cole Porter to Sondheim's immediate mentors and predecessors — was brought into focus in what was in essence a staged funeral . A Little Night Music continued the foray into established genres — drawing upon Ingmar ...
... George Gershwin and Cole Porter to Sondheim's immediate mentors and predecessors — was brought into focus in what was in essence a staged funeral . A Little Night Music continued the foray into established genres — drawing upon Ingmar ...
Pagina xvii
... George constituted itself as a talking and singing painting . Mer- rily We Roll Along put personal friendships and the kinds of business and so- cial interactions that surround the mounting of a Broadway production onto center stage ...
... George constituted itself as a talking and singing painting . Mer- rily We Roll Along put personal friendships and the kinds of business and so- cial interactions that surround the mounting of a Broadway production onto center stage ...
Pagina xix
... George , music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim . © 1984 . 1985. Rilting Music , Inc. , all rights administered by WB Music Corp. Used by permission . For the use of extended quotations from Sweeney Todd , music and lyrics by Stephen ...
... George , music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim . © 1984 . 1985. Rilting Music , Inc. , all rights administered by WB Music Corp. Used by permission . For the use of extended quotations from Sweeney Todd , music and lyrics by Stephen ...
Pagina xxi
... George Eliot , Tol- stoy , George Sand , E. L. Voynich , Victoria Cross , and Napoleon . Joseph Marchesani is an Assistant Professor of Integrative Arts for The Penn State University at McKeesport . He has published essays on gender ...
... George Eliot , Tol- stoy , George Sand , E. L. Voynich , Victoria Cross , and Napoleon . Joseph Marchesani is an Assistant Professor of Integrative Arts for The Penn State University at McKeesport . He has published essays on gender ...
Pagina 7
... George Gershwin , perhaps his work might have found a hearing . Certainly he has worked on the fringes of all of these fields . But musical drama is the " road not taken " of the " road not taken " in these matters , and laboring as he ...
... George Gershwin , perhaps his work might have found a hearing . Certainly he has worked on the fringes of all of these fields . But musical drama is the " road not taken " of the " road not taken " in these matters , and laboring as he ...
Cuprins
The Sung and the Said Literary Value in | 37 |
Maternity Madness and Art in the Theater | 61 |
Every Day a Little Death Sondheims | 77 |
The Funeral of Follies Stephen Sondheim | 89 |
Difference and Sameness Tarchettis Fosca | 101 |
It Takes Two A Duet on Duets in Follies | 121 |
Enchantment on the Manicured Lawns | 133 |
Arresting Development Law Love and | 171 |
Visions and Revisions The Postmodern Challenge | 187 |
Happily Ever NEVER The Antithetical | 209 |
Works Cited | 259 |
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