Susan Harris Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625319 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Harris Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan Harris |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH S H |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Plays in American Periodicals, 1890–1918
This book examines over 125 American, English, Irish and Anglo-Indian plays by 70 dramatists which were published in 14 American general interest periodicals aimed at the middle-class reader and consu
American Drama
Response
Generic Hegemony
THINK OF AMERICAN DRAMA AS AN UNWANTED BASTARD CHILD; FOR DECADES scholars and critics of literature have thought about it this way, when they have bothered to think about it at all. Historically most overlooked area in literary studies, it has also been most maligned and now, it seems, most unjustly neglected. George Beiswanger's assertion about drama, in an article entitled Theatre Today: Symptoms and Surmises written in 1944, captures bias aga…
Ironic Distance and the Theatre of Feigned Madness
The basic premises of drama are rife with ironies. The actor abnegates himself a part which the audience willingly accepts as real while it is being reminded by the proscenium arch that it is witnessing an artificial construct. This irony is a given of most traditional dramatic forms. However, there are plays that go beyond this simple paradox by testing the relationship between actor and audience and by never allowing the audience to settle in a…
Masks in Modern Drama
The Making of Theatre
Tibetan Inroads
Generic Hegemony
THINK OF AMERICAN DRAMA AS AN UNWANTED BASTARD CHILD; FOR DECADES scholars and critics of literature have thought about it this way, when they have bothered to think about it at all. Historically most overlooked area in literary studies, it has also been most maligned and now, it seems, most unjustly neglected. George Beiswanger's assertion about drama, in an article entitled Theatre Today: Symptoms and Surmises written in 1944, captures bias aga…
Masks in Modern Drama
Tibetan Inroads
The Making of Theatre
Masks in Modern Drama
Ironic Distance and the Theatre of Feigned Madness
The basic premises of drama are rife with ironies. The actor abnegates himself a part which the audience willingly accepts as real while it is being reminded by the proscenium arch that it is witnessing an artificial construct. This irony is a given of most traditional dramatic forms. However, there are plays that go beyond this simple paradox by testing the relationship between actor and audience and by never allowing the audience to settle in a…
Response
Generic Hegemony
THINK OF AMERICAN DRAMA AS AN UNWANTED BASTARD CHILD; FOR DECADES scholars and critics of literature have thought about it this way, when they have bothered to think about it at all. Historically most overlooked area in literary studies, it has also been most maligned and now, it seems, most unjustly neglected. George Beiswanger's assertion about drama, in an article entitled Theatre Today: Symptoms and Surmises written in 1944, captures bias aga…
American Drama
Plays in American Periodicals, 1890–1918
This book examines over 125 American, English, Irish and Anglo-Indian plays by 70 dramatists which were published in 14 American general interest periodicals aimed at the middle-class reader and consu
Art (5 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (5 works) · Drama (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · American drama (1 works)