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  • Arthur Miller

    by Christopher Bigsby ...
    Biography of one of the greatest of modern playwrights, Arthur Miller (1915-2005).This is the long-awaited biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest playwrights whose postwar decade of work earned him international critical and popular acclaim.Arthur Miller was a prominent figure in American literature and cinema for over sixty years, writing a wide variety of plays - including The ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Four Contemporary American Playwrights

    Exploring Identity

    by Christopher Bigsby ...
    The fourth in a series of books exploring the careers of 28 contemporary American playwrights, this book covers the work of four male writers, Lucas Hnath, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Stephen Karam and Tarell Alvin McCraney.The dramatic strategies of these award-winning playwrights range widely in styles and approach. Christopher Bigsby interweaves critical analysis of their work with biographical ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • The Arthur Miller Tapes

    A Life In His Own Words

    Edited by Christopher Bigsby ...
    Christopher Bigsby and Arthur Miller shared a regular correspondence which stretched over nearly three decades of friendship. Their interaction and collaboration included a unique series of recorded interviews which now bring fresh and surprising perspectives to the life, thought and creative motivations of one of the greatest modern dramatists. The conversations range richly across topics such as ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • American Dramatists in the 21st Century

    Opening Doors

    by Christopher Bigsby ...
    In American Dramatists in the 21st Century: Opening Doors, Christopher Bigsby examines the careers of seven award-winning playwrights: David Adjmi, Julia Cho, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Will Eno, Martyna Majok, Dominique Morisseau and Anna Ziegler. In addition to covering all their plays, including several as yet unpublished, he notes their critical reception while drawing on their own commentary on ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Beautiful Dreamer

    A Novel

    by Christopher Bigsby ...
    In a small Southern town, a white man tries to prevent a lynching and finds himself branded by the mob --- and worse, finds himself sheltering the dead man's son. When the killers come around to finish the job, the two victims are forced to flee across the country in the hopes of escaping men with nothing but vengeance on their minds.Just one step behind the vigilantes a solitary lawman tracks the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Viewing America

    Twenty-First-Century Television Drama

    by Christopher Bigsby ...
    Something has happened in the world of television drama. For the last decade and a half America has assumed a dominant position. Novelists, screenwriters and journalists, who would once have had no interest in writing for television, indeed who often despised it, suddenly realised that it was where America could have a dialogue with itself. The new television drama was where writers could engage ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Arthur Miller

    1962-2005

    by Christopher Bigsby ...
    The second volume of the definitive biography of one of the greatest modern playwrights, Arthur Miller (1915-2005).The first volume of Christopher Bigsby's award-winning biography of Arthur Miller was hailed as a masterpiece and the definitive account of Miller's early years. This is the second half of Miller's captivating story, covering his life from 1962 to his death in 2005.In 1962, Miller's ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Routledge Revivals: David Mamet (1985)

    by Christopher Bigsby ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1985, C.W.E Bigsby examines the career and work of playwright David Mamet. Bigsby shows that Mamet is a fierce social critic, indicting an America corrupted at its core by myths of frontier individualism and competitive capitalism. Mamet has created plays whose bleak social vision and ironic metaphysics are redeemed, if at all, by the power of imagination. No American playwright ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Twenty-First Century American Playwrights

    by Christopher Bigsby ...
    The early years of the twenty-first century saw several losses for the American theatre but also marked the emergence of a new generation of exciting playwrights. In this book, Christopher Bigsby explores the work of nine of these developing talents, and the importance of issues including race, gender and politics for their writing. Increasingly, these new figures are gaining their reputations not ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson

    by Christopher Bigsby ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    One of America's most powerful and original dramatists, August Wilson offered an alternative history of the twentieth century, as seen from the perspective of black Americans. He celebrated the lives of those seemingly pushed to the margins of national life, but who were simultaneously protagonists of their own drama and evidence of a vital and compelling community. Decade by decade, he told the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Hester

    by Christopher W. E. Bigsby ...
    In his first novel, British scholar Christopher W.E. Bigsby provides a prequel to The Scarlet Letter, introducing readers to a younger Hester Prynne. He tells of her attempts to flee an oppressive marriage to Roger Chillingworth, her love affair with Arthur Dimmesdale, and her life in the New World. In the process, Bigsby condemns the obstacles and prejudices that strong, intelligent women faced ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture

    Edited by Christopher Bigsby ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the cultural themes and intellectual issues that drive the dominant culture of the twentieth century. This companion explores the social, political and economic forces that have made America what it is today. It shows how these contexts impact upon twentieth-century American ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD