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Elmer Rice A Research and Production Sourcebook

Michael Vanden Heuvel

Book Code: VER/

ISBN: 0-313-27431-2

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-27431-2

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256 pages, photographs

Greenwood Press

Publication: 1/30/1996

List Price: $99.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)

Availability: Print on demand

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

Subjects:

Literature » Drama

Series Title: Modern Dramatists Research and Production Sourcebooks

Series Number: 9

Description: When critics of the mid-twentieth century ranked American playwrights, they often had to pause before promoting Eugene O'Neill over Elmer Rice as first among his peers. Like O'Neill, Rice had an astoundingly long and productive life in the American theatre. He made and sustained his reputation with a series of hit plays and provocative experimental work which, next to the output of O'Neill, remains the most varied canon of dramatic literature produced by an American playwright. This reference book is a thorough guide to Rice's fascinating career. This book makes Rice's writings accessible to a wide audience and reveals just how extensive his works are. He was a voluminous writer of letters, articles, and diatribes as well as plays, memoirs, and novels. This sourcebook offers a chronology of his achievements, along with plot synopses and critical overviews of each produced or published play. Theatre researchers will find cast lists and an exhaustive bibliography of reviews of productions, while the listing of archival sources should be of help to those wishing to explore his canon in greater depth. The short biography illuminates Rice's involvement at all levels of cultural production, as a playwright, producer, director, teacher, and polemicist for various theatrical and political causes.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on Codes and Numbering
Chronology
Life and Career
The Plays: Summaries and Critical Overviews
On Trial (1914)
The Iron Cross (1915)
The House in Blind Alley (1916)
The Home of the Free (1917)
A Diadem of Snow (1918)
Help! Help! (1919)
Wake Up, Jonathan (1921)
It Is the Law (1922)
The Adding Machine (1923)
Black Sheep (1923)
Close Harmony (1924)
The Subway (1924)
The Gay White Way (1925)
The Passing of Chow-Chow (1925)
Sidewalks of New York (1925)
Cock Robin (1928)
Street Scene (1929)
See Naples and Die (1929)
The Left Bank (1931)
Counsellor-at-Law (1931)
We, the People (1933)
Judgment Day (1934)
Between Two Worlds (1934)
Not for Children (1935)
American Landscape (1938)
Two on an Island (1940)
Flight to the West (1940)
A New Life (1943)
Dream Girl (1945)
Street Scence (musical) (1947)
The Grand Tour (1951)
Love Among the Ruins (1951)
The Winner (1954)
Cue for Passion (1958)
Court of Last Resort (1965)
Primary Bibliography
Annotated Secondary Bibliography: Reviews
Annotated Secondary Bibliography: Books, Articles, Sections
Productions and Credits
Author Index
General Index

LC Card Number: 95-39030

LCC Class: PS3535

Dewey Class: 812


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