A01=Gertrude Stein
Author_Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein modernist theater experimental drama avant garde plays American playwright literary modernism theatrical innovation dramatic structure typography in drama language play sound in theater continuous present playwriting
Product details
- ISBN 9780801849855
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jul 1995
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the more than 75 plays Gertrude Stein wrote between 1913 and 1946, she envisioned a new dramaturgy, beginning with the pictorial conception of a play as a landscape. She drew into her plays the daily flow of life around her - including the natural world - and turned cities, villages, parts of the dramatic structure, and even her own friends into characters. She made punctuation and typography part of her compositional style and chose words for their joyful impact as sound and wordplay. For Stein, the writing process itself was always important in developing the "continuous present" at the heart of her work. "Last Operas and Plays" contains many of Stein's most important and most-produced works. As a special feature, it also includes her essay "Plays", in which she reflects on the experience in the theatre of seeing and hearing, and on emotion and time.
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. She was the author of many books, including The Making of Americans, Geography and Plays, Tender Buttons, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, and How To Write.
