Time Frames
A century of proscenium playwrights
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Faber & Faber (Verlag)
9780571374113 (ISBN)
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
9780571374113 (ISBN)
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As Shakespeare and his contemporaries wrote for the epic scale, the imaginative commitment and the 360-degree embrace of the Globe so, three hundred years later, generations of playwrights wrote for the velvety darkness, the enclosed acoustic and the picture framing of the proscenium arch.
For a century, the story of the changing world was told inside proscenium theatres, by a series of remarkable playwrights. In over sixty irreverent, illuminating pen portraits, Dominic Dromgoole takes us on a journey from 1865 to 1965, revealing how these writers used the framed stage to reflect the social upheavals of their times.
We see the Depression through the eyes of Arthur Miller; the plight of the Irish working-class through Sean O'Casey; the Jazz Age through Noel Coward; Nigerian independence through Wole Soyinka. The established narratives of theatre history are jauntily overturned as famous giants - Strindberg, Bernard Shaw, O'Neill, Pinter - are revealed in new lights, and sit cheek-by-chronological-jowl with names that deserve to be known more widely, like Alice Childress, María Martinez and Clemence Dane (artist, sculptor, pioneering feminist and, in 1945, the first British woman to win a Best Screenplay Academy Award).
Brought vividly to life by a generously erudite and experienced theatre director, Time Frames is a hugely entertaining journey through a fascinating theatrical century, the era of the proscenium playwrights.
For a century, the story of the changing world was told inside proscenium theatres, by a series of remarkable playwrights. In over sixty irreverent, illuminating pen portraits, Dominic Dromgoole takes us on a journey from 1865 to 1965, revealing how these writers used the framed stage to reflect the social upheavals of their times.
We see the Depression through the eyes of Arthur Miller; the plight of the Irish working-class through Sean O'Casey; the Jazz Age through Noel Coward; Nigerian independence through Wole Soyinka. The established narratives of theatre history are jauntily overturned as famous giants - Strindberg, Bernard Shaw, O'Neill, Pinter - are revealed in new lights, and sit cheek-by-chronological-jowl with names that deserve to be known more widely, like Alice Childress, María Martinez and Clemence Dane (artist, sculptor, pioneering feminist and, in 1945, the first British woman to win a Best Screenplay Academy Award).
Brought vividly to life by a generously erudite and experienced theatre director, Time Frames is a hugely entertaining journey through a fascinating theatrical century, the era of the proscenium playwrights.
Dominic Dromgoole was the Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre from 2006 to 2016, and former Artistic Director of the Oxford Stage Company (1997-2005) and the Bush Theatre (1990-96). In 2021, he presented the Oscar Wilde season at the Vaudeville Theatre. He is the author of The Full Room, Will and Me (winner of the Sheridan Morley prize), Hamlet: Globe to Globe (a New York Times Book of the Year), and Astonish Me! First Nights That Changed the World.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.8.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-13 | 9780571374113 / 9780571374113 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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