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Stephen Sondheim: A Casebook (Casebooks on Modern Dramatists) | 
 enlarge | Author: Joanne Gordon
Publisher: Routledge
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 3381297
Media: Library Binding
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 259
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 081532054X
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.14092
EAN: 9780815320548
ASIN: 081532054X
Publication Date: August 1, 1997
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Condition: hardcover pictorial; Item condition: GOOD-. 259 pages. Former public library copy with library stamps/stickers. Tight binding. Covers have bumped corners, inside good. ; Publisher: Routledge 1997;
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Product Description
Stephen Sondheim is an artist with many contradictory facets: he is an avant-garde composer and lyricist working in the populist art form, an apparently dry and acerbic critic who captures all the ambivalent pain of passion, an intellectual whose work contains some of the funniest bawdy lines on the Broadway stage. He has chosen to confront an audience that is usually looking for escapist literature with the very issues it has fled to the theatre to avoid.
This collection of original essays takes particular pains to present Sondheim's diversity in a chronological plan that illustrates how each new work grew out of the previous one. Some of the topics covered are the evolution of Sondheim's female characters, who take us far beyond the usual sweet ingenues; the Roman farce antecedents of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and the resemblances between Sondheim's chorus and the chorus in ancient Greek drama; Sondheim and the "concept" musical; and Sondheim's maturing philosophy.
All students of the modern theatre and the modern musical will want to read this book.
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