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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... become an adage among Broadway and off Broadway investors that a Sondheim play never made money . Writing at the end of the 1970s , Adler was among the first to defend the literary value of Sondheim's work and suggest that he be ...
... become an adage among Broadway and off Broadway investors that a Sondheim play never made money . Writing at the end of the 1970s , Adler was among the first to defend the literary value of Sondheim's work and suggest that he be ...
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... become increasingly well known ( again in part as a result of combining forces with a respected production team including , among others , Harold Prince , Michael Bennett . Boris Aron- son , and James Goldman ) , Sondheim has ...
... become increasingly well known ( again in part as a result of combining forces with a respected production team including , among others , Harold Prince , Michael Bennett . Boris Aron- son , and James Goldman ) , Sondheim has ...
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... become concretely manifest . To read Sondheim is to isolate what is distinctive about his work in whatever context that distinctiveness happens to be encountered . But how are we to do that ? How are we to isolate that distinctiveness ...
... become concretely manifest . To read Sondheim is to isolate what is distinctive about his work in whatever context that distinctiveness happens to be encountered . But how are we to do that ? How are we to isolate that distinctiveness ...
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... become visceral presences as well ) , accusing them of having destroyed their lives , and vowing to get even with them for it , all the while promising their partner a renewed faithfulness and love . And in the midst of the confusion ...
... become visceral presences as well ) , accusing them of having destroyed their lives , and vowing to get even with them for it , all the while promising their partner a renewed faithfulness and love . And in the midst of the confusion ...
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... become now a vaudeville clown , in plaid baggy pants , bright blue jacket , and derby hat , touting his toy automobile which is suspended from his waist , and driven in- satiably from one female haven to another . Two showgirls assist ...
... become now a vaudeville clown , in plaid baggy pants , bright blue jacket , and derby hat , touting his toy automobile which is suspended from his waist , and driven in- satiably from one female haven to another . Two showgirls assist ...
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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Reading Stephen Sondheim: A Collection of Critical Essays Sandor Goodhart Previzualizare limitată - 2000 |
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