A.R. Gurney: A Casebook

by Arvid F. Sponberg. 232 pgs.

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Contributors:

Arvid F. Sponberg

Publisher:

Routledge

Place of Publication:

New York

Publication Year:

2004

Table of contents

	Contents
	Acknowledgments	xi
	General Editor’s Note	xiii
	Preface	xv
	A. R. GURNEY: AN INTRODUCTION	1
	PART I: INTERVIEWS
	AN INTERVIEW WITH A. R. GURNEY	17
	AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN CUNNINGHAM	35
	AN INTERVIEW WITH HOLLAND TAYLOR	45
	AN INTERVIEW W WITH DEBRA MOONEY	55
	AN INTERVIEW W WITH JOHN TILLINGER	67
	PART II: ESSAYS
	INDETERMINACY AS TRAGIC FATE: ISSUES OF RACE, CLASS, GENDER, AND SEXUAL ORBENTATION IN GURNEY
	MARK WILLIAM ROCHA	79
	WHERE DOES THE WASP KEEP ITS STING? THE DYNAMICS OF ANGER IN THE PLAYS OF A. R. GURNEY
	ERVENE GULLEY	94
	THE DINING ROOM: A TOCQUEVILLIAN TAKE ON THE DECLINE OF WASP CULTURE
	BRUCE MCCONACHIE	101
	WHAT I DID LAST SUMMER: REALIZING ONE’S POTENTIAL
	LAURA MILLER	112
	ABSENT FATHERS, TRANSIENT SONS: MILLER, INGE, AND GURNEY
	ARVID. F. SPONBERG	122
	ENTERING THE FOURTH DIMENSION: A. R. GUKNEY’S SWEET SUE
	BRENDA GORDON	131
	THE ALLUSIVE A. R. GURNEY
	BRENDA MURPHY	140
	GURNEY’S SYLVIA: WHAT OFT WAS THOUGHT
	JOALLEN BRADHAM	149
	PICNICS AND PARTIES: INGE, GURNEY, AND THE ARGUMENT OF COMEDY
	ARVID. F. SPONBERG	160
	PART III: ARTICLES BY A. R. GURNEY
	A SACRED PLACE JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION, NOVEMBER 1975	171
	PUSHlNG THE WALLS OF DRAMATIC FORM THE NEW YORK TIMES, JULY 27, 1986	174
	THE DINNER PARTY AMERICAN HERITAGE, 39 (SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1988)	177
	CONVERSATION PIECE NEWSWEEK, JUNE 26,1989	181
	CRTTICAL CONDITION AMERICAN THEATRE, JUNE 24-7,1991	184
	WHEN THE FINAL ACT IS ONLY A BEGINNING THE NEW YORK TIMES, OCTOBER 27, 1991	189
	SHAW, THE ETERNAL SCHOOLMASTER, CAN STTLL BE WISE THE NEW YORK TIMES, JANUARY 31, 1993	193
	COMING HOME TO A MUSICAL THAT SOUNDS LIKE AMERICA THE NEW YORK TIMES, SEPTEMBER 8,1996	199
	HIGH TIME FOR COMEDY (AND POLITICAL OUTRAGE) THE NEW YORK TIMES, NOVEMBER 10,2002	203
	Afterword: A Cue for Gurney Studies	206
	Chronology	210
	Bibliography	213
	Contributors	219
	Index	223

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