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Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess

The Strange, the Crazed, the Queer

By: Annette J. Saddik

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Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess

The Strange, the Crazed, the Queer

By: Annette J. Saddik

The plays of Tennessee Williams' post-1961 period have often been misunderstood and dismissed. In light of Williams' centennial in 2011, which was marked internationally by productions and world premieres of his late plays, Annette J. Saddik's new reading of these works illuminates them in the context of what she terms a 'theatre of excess', which seeks liberation through exaggeration, chaos, ambiguity, and laughter. Saddik explains why they are now gaining increasing acclaim, and analyzes recent productions that successfully captured elements central to Williams' late aesthetic, particularly a delicate balance of laughter and horror with a self-consciously ironic acting style. Grounding the plays through the work of Bakhtin, Artaud, and Kristeva, as well as through the carnivalesque, the grotesque, and psychoanalytic, feminist, and queer theory, Saddik demonstrates how Williams engaged the freedom of exaggeration and excess in celebration of what he called 'the strange, the crazed, the queer'.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316240681

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9781316240687

The Politics of Reputation

The Critical Reception of Tennessee Williams' Later Plays

By: Annette J. Saddik

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The Politics of Reputation

The Critical Reception of Tennessee Williams' Later Plays

By: Annette J. Saddik

Author Annette J. Saddik researches Tennessee Williams' much-neglected later work (from 1961 to 1983), and argues that it deserves a central place in American experimental drama. Offering a new reading of Williams' career, she challenges the conventional wisdom that his later work represents a failure of his creative powers.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838637728

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9780838637722

Contemporary American Drama

By: Annette Saddik

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Contemporary American Drama

By: Annette Saddik

This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts that experiment with form and content, discussing influential playwrights and performance artists such as Tennessee Williams, Adrienne Kennedy, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Charles Ludlum, Anna Deavere Smith, Karen Finley and Will Power, alongside avant-garde theatre groups. Saddik traces the development of contemporary drama since 1945, and discusses the cross-cultural impact of postwar British and European innovations on American theatre from the 1950s to the present day in order to examine the performance of American identity. She argues that contemporary American theatre is primarily a postmodern drama of inclusion and diversity that destabilizes the notion of fixed identity and questions the nature of reality.

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Edinburgh University Press

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074863066X

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9780748630660

The Politics of Reputation

The Critical Reception of Tennessee Williams' Later Plays

By: Annette J. Saddik

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The Critical Reception of Tennessee Williams' Later Plays

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Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess

By: Annette J. Saddik

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By: Annette J. Saddik

This book explores Williams' late plays in terms of a 'theatre of excess', which seeks liberation through exaggeration, chaos, ambiguity, and laughter.

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1107076684

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Book's by Annette J. Saddik

Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess

Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess

The Politics of Reputation

The Politics of Reputation

Contemporary American Drama

Contemporary American Drama

The Politics of Reputation

The Politics of Reputation

Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess

Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess

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