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John Guare A Research and Production Sourcebook
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Jane Kathleen Curry
ISBN: 0-313-31252-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31252-6
312 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 7/30/2002
List Price: $91.95 (UK Sterling Price: £63.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Best known for his plays Six Degrees of Separation and The House of Blue Leaves, John Guare is a major figure in the contemporary American theater. Other notable works by Guare include Bosoms and Neglect, Landscape of the Body, and the Lydie Breeze series. His career began with off-off-Broadway experimentation in the sixties and continues through the present. In that time Guare has created many imaginative, eccentric plays that reflect the chaos, violence, and loneliness of life in our time. He frequently combines outrageous farce with painfully serious subject matter.

This sourcebook is both a convenient reference and a resource for further investigation of Guare's works. The volume chronicles his achievements with a chronology and biographical essay. It also includes summaries of his published and unpublished plays, overviews of the critical reception of each work, production credits, a primary bibliography of dramatic and nondramatic writings, and extensive annotated bibliographies of reviews and other secondary material.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
    Chronology
    Life and Career
    The Plays: Summaries and Critical Overviews
    Bosoms and Neglect (1979)
    Chaucer in Rome (1999)
    Cop-Out (1969)
    A Day for Surprises (1967)
    Did You Write My Name in the Snow? (1963)
    Four Baboons Adoring the Sun (1992)
    Gardenia (1982)
    The General of Hot Desire (1998)
    The Golden Cherub (1962?)
    Home Fires (1969)
    The House of Blue Leaves (1971)
    In Fireworks Lie Secret Codes (1979)
    Kissing Sweet (1969)
    Lake Hollywood (1999)
    Landscape of the Body (1977)
    The Lovliest Afternoon of the Year (1966)
    Lydie Breeze (1982)
    Manna From Heaven (1984)
    Marco Polo Sings a Solo (1973)
    Moon Under Miami (1995)
    Muzeeka (1967)
    A New Me (1981)
    New York Actor (1992)
    Rich and Famous (1974)
    Six Degrees of Separation (1990)
    Something I'll Tell You Tuesday (1966)
    The Talking Dog (1985)
    The Thirties Girl (1959?)
    The Toadstool Boy (1960)
    To Wally Pantoni We Leave a Credenza (1965)
    Two Gentlemen of Verona (1971)
    Women and Water (1984)
    Primary Bibliography
    Secondary Bibliography: Reviews
    Secondary Bibliography: Books, Articles, Sections
    Productions and Credits
    Author Index
    General Index
About the Author: JANE KATHLEEN CURRY is Assistant Professor of Theater at Wake Forest University. Her books include Nineteenth-Century American Women Theater Managers (Greenwood, 1994).
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