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Last Operas and Plays

  • ISBN-13: 9780801849855
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Gertrude Stein
  • Price: AUD $88.99
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  • Local release date: 14/07/1995
  • Format: Paperback 536 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Theatre studies [AN]
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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.


Contents: Yes Is for a Very Young Man

  • The Mother of Us All
  • Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights
  • A Play of Pounds
  • A Manoir
  • Short Sentences
  • Four Saints in Three Acts
  • Photography
  • Also includes the essay ""Plays""

  • ""To Carl Van Vechten's 1949 selection of some of Stein's most important and most produced plays, this reprint adds the essay Plays, in which Stein elaborates her notion of the play as a landscape and, and a new introduction by Bonnie Marranca.""

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