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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801849853
• ISBN13: 9780801849855
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher