Last Operas and Plays (Revised)

By Gertrude Stein

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801849853
• ISBN13: 9780801849855
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher