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作者：ANDERSON, DONALD R. 出版社：SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIV PR 出版日期：2010年10月01日 語言：英文 ISBN：9780809329915 裝訂：平裝 內容簡介TOPAN IMPORTANT AND PROLIFIC PLAYWRIGHT, PHILIP BARRY WROTE HIT PLAYS SUCH AS THE PHILADELPHIA STORY AND OLHOHOHOLIDAY. HOWEVER, HE HAS BEEN LARGELY FORGOTTEN AND NO BOOK-LENGTH ANALYSIS OF HIS WORK HAS APPEARED IN MORE THAN FORTY YEARS. DONALD R. ANDERSON RESCUES THE PLAYWRIGHT FROM OBSCURITY WITH SHADOWED COCKTAILS: THE PLAYS OF PHILIP BARRY FROM “PARIS BOUND” TO “THE PHILADELPHIA STORY.” ALTHOUGH BARRY’S SUCCESSES WERE WITH COMEDIES OF MANNERS, HE ALSO WROTE DRAMATIC AND EXPERIMENTAL WORKS. ANDERSON ANALYZES ALL OF BARRY’S PLAYS (TWENTY-ONE IN TOTAL) AND QUESTIONS THE TRADITIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT’S WORK. HE MAKES EXPLICIT THE LINKS BETWEEN BARRY’S PLAYS—RECURRING THEMES, DEVICES, MOTIFS, STYLISTIC TECHNIQUES, AND CHARACTER TYPES. ANDERSON BEGINS WITH BARRY’S EARLY PLAYS CONCERNING INTERGENERATIONAL TENSIONS AND LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE GREAT WAR. SUBSEQUENT CHAPTERS EXPLORE BARRY’S PREOCCUPATION WITH FIDELITY AND INFIDELITY, HIS STRUGGLES WITH HIS IRISH-CATHOLIC BELIEFS, AND HIS INVESTIGATIONS INTO SOURCES OF EVIL AND DESPAIR. ANDERSON ALSO LOOKS AT THE PLAYS OF THE LATE 1930S AND ’40S, INCLUDING THE POSTHUMOUSLY PRODUCED SECOND THRESHOLD. ONE CHAPTER IS DEVOTED TO BARRY’S SYNERGISTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH KATHARINE HEPBURN: HER ROLE IN LIFTING THE PLAYWRIGHT OUT OF A MID-1930S SLUMP AND HIS ROLE IN RESCUING HER FROM THE LABEL OF “BOX-OFFICE POISON” WITH HIS PLAYS THE ANIMAL KINGDOM, THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, AND WITHOUT LOVE. BARRY ALSO SPOKE TO AN AGE OF UNCERTAINTY, AND MUCH OF HIS WORK RESONATES WITH THE CURRENT SOCIOECONOMIC CLIMATE. ANDERSON REVEALS A DEPTH AND STRATEGIC ASTUTENESS IN BARRY’S WORK THAT HAS NOT BEEN FULLY APPRECIATED AND ARTICULATED UNTIL NOW. HE PLACES BARRY WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE TIMES BUT ALSO SHOWS HIM DRAWING ON PAST INFLUENCES AND ANTICIPATING THEATRICAL DEVELOPMENTS OF THE LATTER PART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. PART CULTURAL HISTORY, PART LITERARY ANALYSIS, SHADOWED COCKTAILS IS SURE TO REVITALIZE INTEREST IN THIS REMARKABLE AMERICAN AUTHOR. |
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