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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... move- ment , to ameliorate the difficulties it raises ( whether we do so in our produc- tions , our reviews , our scholarship , or our literary criticism ) is to do more than miss what the play has to show us . It is to participate ...
... move- ment , to ameliorate the difficulties it raises ( whether we do so in our produc- tions , our reviews , our scholarship , or our literary criticism ) is to do more than miss what the play has to show us . It is to participate ...
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... move closer . The boy begins to scream , and for a time that gesture wards them off . But that strategy finally fails and they surround him and begin to peck at his head . I turned my head from side to side , loosening the earth around ...
... move closer . The boy begins to scream , and for a time that gesture wards them off . But that strategy finally fails and they surround him and begin to peck at his head . I turned my head from side to side , loosening the earth around ...
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... move on . Sally Durant , for example , seems un- able to do so . " We're gonna go and get some rest , " her husband Buddy tells her . " And then we're gonna make plans for tomorrow " ( 110 ) . Looking up at the " ruined theater " around ...
... move on . Sally Durant , for example , seems un- able to do so . " We're gonna go and get some rest , " her husband Buddy tells her . " And then we're gonna make plans for tomorrow " ( 110 ) . Looking up at the " ruined theater " around ...
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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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