Beat Drama Playwrights and Performances of the 'Howl' Generation

• Other Authors: Geis, Deborah R., 1960- (Editor), Brater, Enoch (Editor), Taylor-Batty, Mark, 1966- (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2016
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• Physical Description: xi, 357 pages : 23 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
• ISBN: 9781472567871

LITERARY STUDIES: FROM C 1900 -. Readers and acolytes of the vital early 1950s-mid 1960s writers known as the Beat Generation tend to be familiar with the prose and poetry by the seminal authors of this period: Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane Di Prima, and many others. Yet all of these authors, as well as other less well-known Beat figures, also wrote plays-and these, together with their countercultural approaches to what could or should happen in the theatre-shaped the dramatic experiments of the playwrights who came after them, from Sam Shepard to Maria Irene Fornes, to the many vanguard performance artists of the seventies. This volume, the first of its kind, gathers essays about the exciting work in drama and performance by and about the Beat Generation, ranging from the well-known Beat figures such as Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs, to the "Afro-Beats" - LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Bob Kaufman, and others.