Beat Drama

Playwrights and Performances of the 'Howl' Generation

By: Deborah Geis (Editor), Enoch Brater (Editor), Mark Taylor-Batty (Editor)

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Hardcover | 28 July 2016

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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. It offers original studies of the women Beats - Di Prima, Bunny Lang - as well as groups like the Living Theater who in this era first challenged the literal and physical boundaries of the performance space itself.

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"Deborah R. Geis has compiled a selection of incisive essays that explore the impact made by the works of representative artists ... A recurring theme among the essays asserts the importance these artists had in sowing the seeds of performance art as well as deeply influencing the Off-Off Broadway scene of the 1960s." - TDR: The Drama Review

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