Israel Horovitz: A Collection of Critical Essays
This is the first collection of scholarly essays dedicated to an assessment of this playwright's prodigious body of work. The 13 essays—12 original and one revised and expanded for this volume—present the most timely and provocative thinking on Horovitz's canon (more than 50 plays), and address such subjects as ethnicity; violence; feminism; social commitment; the role of mythology; the influence of Aeschylus, Beckett, Ionesco, O'Neill, and Albee; and Horovitz's contribution to American drama. Also included are an interview with the playwright conducted by the editor specifically for this collection, a comprehensive chronology of his life and productions, and the most current primary and selected secondary bibliography.
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Israel Horovitz: A Collection of Critical Essays
This is the first collection of scholarly essays dedicated to an assessment of this playwright's prodigious body of work. The 13 essays—12 original and one revised and expanded for this volume—present the most timely and provocative thinking on Horovitz's canon (more than 50 plays), and address such subjects as ethnicity; violence; feminism; social commitment; the role of mythology; the influence of Aeschylus, Beckett, Ionesco, O'Neill, and Albee; and Horovitz's contribution to American drama. Also included are an interview with the playwright conducted by the editor specifically for this collection, a comprehensive chronology of his life and productions, and the most current primary and selected secondary bibliography.
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Israel Horovitz: A Collection of Critical Essays

Israel Horovitz: A Collection of Critical Essays

by Leslie Kane
Israel Horovitz: A Collection of Critical Essays

Israel Horovitz: A Collection of Critical Essays

by Leslie Kane

Overview

This is the first collection of scholarly essays dedicated to an assessment of this playwright's prodigious body of work. The 13 essays—12 original and one revised and expanded for this volume—present the most timely and provocative thinking on Horovitz's canon (more than 50 plays), and address such subjects as ethnicity; violence; feminism; social commitment; the role of mythology; the influence of Aeschylus, Beckett, Ionesco, O'Neill, and Albee; and Horovitz's contribution to American drama. Also included are an interview with the playwright conducted by the editor specifically for this collection, a comprehensive chronology of his life and productions, and the most current primary and selected secondary bibliography.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313291470
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 09/29/1994
Series: Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies , #55
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

LESLIE KANE is Professor of English at Westfield State College where she teaches modern drama and world literature. She is the author of The Language of Silence: On the Unspoken and the Unspeakable in Modern Drama and editor of David Mamet: A Casebook. Her essays and reviews have appeared in numerous jourbanals and books, including The Pinter Review, World Literature Today, The Yearbook of English Studies, Theatre Jourbanal,and Feminine Focus: The New Women Playwrights. She is currently writing Weasels and Wisemen: A Study of Jewish Identity in the Plays of Harold Pinter and David Mamet. Kane is vice-president of the Harold Pinter Society.

Table of Contents

Preface
Chronology
Introduction by Leslie Kane
"We Gotta' Hang Together": Horovitz and the National Cycles of Violence by William Demastes
Ins and Outs: The Ethnic World of Israel Horovitz by Robert Skloot
O'Neill and Horovitz: Toward Home by Robert Combs
The Influence of Aeschylus's Oresteia on Israel Horovitz's Alfred Trilogy by Dennis A. Klein
Double Mixed Memories by Liliane Kerjan
The Widow's Blind Date: "A Shitload of Getting Together" by Leslie Kane
The Unkindness of Strangers: Violence and Homosexual Subtexts in Israel Horovitz by John Watkins and Andrew Elfenbein
The Influence of Samuel Beckett on Israel Horovitz by Robert Scanlan
The Place, the Thing: Israel Horovitz's Gloucester Milieu by Thomas F. Connolly
Portraits of Wo(Men) in Israel Horovitz's North Shore Fish and Park Your Car in Harvard Yard by Susan C. Haedicke
Machismo in Massachusetts: Israel Horovitz's Unpublished Screenplays The Deuce and Strong-Men by Ann C. Hall
Israel Horovitz's Strong-Man's Weak Child/Strong-Men: From Stage Play to Screenplay by Steven H. Gale
Ed Lemon: Prophet of Profit by Martin J. Jacobi
Interview with Israel Horovitz by Leslie Kane
Primary Bibliography
Selected Secondary Bibliography

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