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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... plot ) , then he does A Little Night Music where the plot is paramount . We notice that the first three shows of the 1970s all have love interests in a West- ernized setting , and then he does Pacific Overtures which has no major love ...
... plot ) , then he does A Little Night Music where the plot is paramount . We notice that the first three shows of the 1970s all have love interests in a West- ernized setting , and then he does Pacific Overtures which has no major love ...
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... plot turn at its center may find its analogue in an epistolary fictional mode that was certainly part of the source material ( Tarchetti's nineteenth - century Italian novella ) from which first the film and then the play is drawn , but ...
... plot turn at its center may find its analogue in an epistolary fictional mode that was certainly part of the source material ( Tarchetti's nineteenth - century Italian novella ) from which first the film and then the play is drawn , but ...
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... plots . And each of them constitutes a wish or de- sire for a happy ending by which the fires within each of the characters , like the candles atop Robert's birthday cake , may continue to burn . To live within any one of those plots ...
... plots . And each of them constitutes a wish or de- sire for a happy ending by which the fires within each of the characters , like the candles atop Robert's birthday cake , may continue to burn . To live within any one of those plots ...
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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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