American Drama
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Overview
In the more than seventy-five plays Gertrude Stein wrote between 1913 and 1946, she envisioned a new dramaturgy, beginning with her pictorial conception of a play as a landscape. This book makes available many of Stein's most important and most- produced works.Synopsis
In the more than seventy-five plays Gertrude Stein wrote between 1913 and 1946, she envisioned a new dramaturgy, beginning with her pictorial conception of a play as a landscape. This book makes available many of Stein's most important and most- produced works.
Library Journal
Considering most readers don't understand a thing she writes, Stein's continuing popularity is astounding. Both the plays and the history of America are presented here in her own inimitable style. For the serious literati.
Editorials
American Literature
To Carl Van Vechten's 1949 selection of some of Stein's most important and most produced plays, this reprint adds the essay Plays, in which Stein elaborates her notion of the play as a landscape and, and a new introduction by Bonnie Marranca.Library Journal
Considering most readers don't understand a thing she writes, Stein's continuing popularity is astounding. Both the plays and the history of America are presented here in her own inimitable style. For the serious literati.Booknews
Reprint of the Rinehart & Co. edition of 1949, which was edited by Carl Van Vechten. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
May 1, 1995
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages
536
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780801849855