Shadowed cocktails :: the plays of Philip Barry from Paris bound to The Philadelphia story /

An important and prolific playwright, Philip Barry wrote hit plays such as The Philadelphia Story and Holiday. However, he has been largely forgotten and no book-length analysis of his work has appeared in more than forty years. With this book, Donald R. Anderson rescues the playwright from obscurit...

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1. Verfasser: Anderson, Donald R.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2010.
Schriftenreihe:Theater in the Americas.
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Zusammenfassung:An important and prolific playwright, Philip Barry wrote hit plays such as The Philadelphia Story and Holiday. However, he has been largely forgotten and no book-length analysis of his work has appeared in more than forty years. With this book, Donald R. Anderson rescues the playwright from obscurity. Although Barry's successes were with comedies of manners, he also wrote dramatic and experimental works. Anderson analyzes all of Barry's plays (twenty-one in total) and questions the traditional characterization of the American playwrig.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 217 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780809385904
0809385902
1280697865
9781280697869
9786613674821
6613674826

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