The Theatre of E. E. Cummings

Título: The Theatre of E. E. Cummings

Autor: E. E. Cummings

Sinopse: 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 IT TRY TO UNDERSTAND YOU,” Cummings famously wrote about his intentions for the stage. Thoughtful and witty, Cummings’s dramas are an integral part of his canon.

Contexto da obra

Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “The Theatre of E. E. Cummings”, de E. E. Cummings, publicado pela editora Liveright, em 2013 e com 224 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.

Editora: Liveright

Páginas: 224

Ano: 2013-01-07

Edição: First Edition

Linguagem: en

ISBN: 0871406543

ISBN13: 9780871406545