Maria Irene Fornes
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Maria Irene Fornes

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Maria Irene Fornes

About this book

Maria Irene Fornes is the most influential female American dramatist of the 20th century. That is the argument of this important new study, the first to assess Fornes's complete body of work.

Scott T. Cummings considers comic sketches, opera libretti and unpublished pieces, as well as her best-known plays, in order to trace the evolution of her dramaturgy from the whimsical Off-Off Broadway plays of the 1960s to the sober, meditative work of the 1990s. The book also reflects on her practice as an inspirational teacher of playwriting and the primary director of her own plays.

Drawing on the latest scholarship and his own personal research and interviews with Fornes over two decades, Cummings examines Fornes's unique significance and outlines strategies for understanding her fragmentary, enigmatic, highly demanding theater.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780415454346
eBook ISBN
9781136720512

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of illustrations
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Part I The 1960s: “Let me be wrong. But also not know it.”
  8. 1 Getting started
  9. 2 Off-Off Broadway: the good scene
  10. 3 Key play: Promenade (the apotheosis of Judson)
  11. Part II The 1970s: “If we’re showing what life is, can be, we must do theatre.”
  12. 4 Finding a way
  13. 5 Key play: Fefu and Her Friends (turning over the stone)
  14. Part III The 1980s: “I have to learn how to lead my life.”
  15. 6 Found
  16. 7 The PAJ Plays
  17. 8 Key play: Abingdon Square (conquering the vagueness)
  18. Part IV The 1990s: “Where are we in relation to all this?”
  19. 9 The Night Plays
  20. 10 Coming to an end
  21. Appendix A Selected production history
  22. Appendix B Plays in publication
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index