Download PDF by Deborah R. Geis,Deborah Geis: Beat Drama: Playwrights and Performances of the 'Howl’

By Deborah R. Geis,Deborah Geis

ISBN-10: 1472567870

ISBN-13: 9781472567871

ISBN-10: 1472567889

ISBN-13: 9781472567888

Readers and acolytes of the very important early 1950s-mid Sixties writers often called the Beat iteration are usually accustomed to the prose and poetry through the seminal authors of this era: Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane Di Prima, and so forth. but all of those authors, in addition to different much less famous Beat figures, additionally wrote plays-and those, including their countercultural methods to what might or may still occur within the theatre-shaped the dramatic experiments of the playwrights who got here after them, from Sam Shepard to Maria Irene Fornes, to the various leading edge functionality artists of the seventies.

This quantity, the 1st of its sort, gathers essays in regards to the interesting paintings in drama and function via and concerning the Beat new release, starting from the well known Beat figures equivalent to Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs, to the "Afro-Beats” - LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Bob Kaufman, and others. It deals unique reports of the ladies Beats - Di Prima, Bunny Lang - in addition to teams just like the residing Theater who during this period first challenged the literal and actual barriers of the functionality house itself.

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