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Best known for his plays
Six Degrees of Separation and
The House of Blue Leaves, John Guare is a major figure in the contemporary American theater. Other notable works by Guare include
Bosoms and Neglect, Landscape of the Body, and the
Lydie Breeze series. His career began with off-off-Broadway experimentation in the sixties and continues through the present. In that time Guare has created many imaginative, eccentric plays that reflect the chaos, violence, and loneliness of life in our time. He frequently combines outrageous farce with painfully serious subject matter.
This sourcebook is both a convenient reference and a resource for further investigation of Guare's works. The volume chronicles his achievements with a chronology and biographical essay. It also includes summaries of his published and unpublished plays, overviews of the critical reception of each work, production credits, a primary bibliography of dramatic and nondramatic writings, and extensive annotated bibliographies of reviews and other secondary material.
List of contents
Preface
Chronology
Life and Career
The Plays: Summaries and Critical OverviewsBosoms and Neglect (1979)
Chaucer in Rome (1999)
Cop-Out (1969)
A Day for Surprises (1967)
Did You Write My Name in the Snow? (1963)
Four Baboons Adoring the Sun (1992)
Gardenia (1982)
The General of Hot Desire (1998)
The Golden Cherub (1962?)
Home Fires (1969)
The House of Blue Leaves (1971)
In Fireworks Lie Secret Codes (1979)
Kissing Sweet (1969)
Lake Hollywood (1999)
Landscape of the Body (1977)
The Lovliest Afternoon of the Year (1966)
Lydie Breeze (1982)
Manna From Heaven (1984)
Marco Polo Sings a Solo (1973)
Moon Under Miami (1995)
Muzeeka (1967)
A New Me (1981)
New York Actor (1992)
Rich and Famous (1974)
Six Degrees of Separation (1990)
Something I'll Tell You Tuesday (1966)
The Talking Dog (1985)
The Thirties Girl (1959?)
The Toadstool Boy (1960)
To Wally Pantoni We Leave a Credenza (1965)
Two Gentlemen of Verona (1971)
Women and Water (1984)
Primary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography: Reviews
Secondary Bibliography: Books, Articles, Sections
Productions and Credits
Author Index
General Index
About the author
JANE KATHLEEN CURRY is Assistant Professor of Theater at Wake Forest University. Her books include
Nineteenth-Century American Women Theater Managers (Greenwood, 1994).
