{"product_id":"beat-drama-playwrights-and-performances-of-the-howl-generation-9781472567888","title":"Beat Drama: Playwrights and Performances of the 'howl' Generation","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Deborah Geis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45082484244631,"sku":"9781472567888","price":5771.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781472567888.webp?v=1767142519","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/beat-drama-playwrights-and-performances-of-the-howl-generation-9781472567888","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}