William Saroyan A Research and Production Sourcebook

Subjects:

• Literature » Drama
• The Arts » Theater

Reviews:

• Serious scholars will find helpful a description of major archival sources for further research. Appropriate for collections specializing in drama and theater history.
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Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• A Note on Codes and Numbering
• Chronology
• William Saroyan: Biography and Analysis
• Dramatic Writings: Summaries, Productions, and Critical Overviews
• Plays
• Across the Board on Tomorrow Morning (1941)
• The Agony of Little Nations (1940)
• Armenians (1971)
• Assassinations (1974)
• Bad Men in the West (1942)
• The Beautiful People (1941)
• Bitlis (1975)
• The Cave Dwellers (1957)
• Chris Sick, or Happy New Year Anyway (1969)
• Coming through the Rye (1942)
• A Decent Birth, A Happy Funeral (1941)
• The Dogs, or the Paris Comedy (1969)
• Don't Go Away Mad (1947)
• Elmer and Lily (1939)
• Get Away Old Man (1944)
• The Great American Goof (1940)
• Hanging around the Wabash (1961)
• Haratch (1979)
• Hello Out There (1942)
• Hello Out There (1960)
• High Time Along the Wabash (1961)
• The Human Comedy (1983)
• The Hungerers (1939)
• Jim Dandy, Fat Man in a Famine (1941)
• A Lost Child's Fireflies (1954)
• Love's Old Sweet Song (1940)
• The Man with the Heart in the Highlands (1938)
• My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
• My Heart's in the Highlands (1970)
• Now is the Time: A Sideshow of the World Today (1938)
• Once Around the Block (1949)
• Opera, Opera (1940)
• The People with Light Coming Out of Them (1941)
• The Ping-Pong Game (1940)
• The Poetic Situation in America Since Alexandre Dumas and Several Others (1940)
• The Rebirth Celebration of the Human Race at Artie Zabala's Off-Broadway Theatre (1975)
• Sam Ego's House (1947)
• Sam, the Highest Jumper of Them All, or The London Comedy (1961)
• Sam, Jim, & Anna (1974)
• The Slaughter of the Innocents (1952)
• The Son (1939)
• The Stolen Secret (A Short Play) (1954)
• Subway Circus (1935)
• Sweeney in the Trees (1939)
• Tales from the Vienna Streets (1980)
• Talking to You (1942)
• The Television Impeachment of the Boy President's Assassin's Financial Backer (1977)
• The Time of Your Life (1939)
• Warsaw Visitor (1980)
• Dramatic Dialogues
• Screenplays, Teleplays, and Radio Plays
• Primary Bibliography: Writings by Saroyan
• Plays
• Dramatic Dialogues
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Archival Sources
• Secondary Bibliography: Reviews
• Secondary Bibliography: Books, Articles, Sections
• Author Index
• Subject Index