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The theatre of E.E. Cummings

Name: The theatre of E.E. Cummings
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ISBN: 9780871406545

Cummings, Edward Estlin; Firmage, George James

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The complete collection of E. E. Cummings's writing for the stage, from the most inventive poet of the twentieth century. The Theatre of E. E. Cummings collects in their entirety Cummings's long out-of-print theatrical works: the plays HIM (1927), Anthropos (1930), and Santa Claus (1946), and the ballet treatment Tom (1935). In HIM , a creatively blocked artist and his lover, Me, struggle to bridge the impasse in their relationship and in his art. In Anthropos , a Platonic parable, three "infrahumans" brainstorm slogans while a man sketches on a cave wall; and in Santa Claus , Death and Saint Nick exchange identities. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is reimagined as dance, transforming the novel into a symbolic attack against Evil itself. Cummings's prodigious creativity is on display in each of these works, which are ultimately about the place of the artist outside of society. "DON'T TRY TO [...]UNDERSTAND IT, LET...

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Year:

2022

Publisher:

Liveright Publishing Corporation

Language:

English

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0871406543

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9780871406545