Background
Murphy, Brenda Carol was born on May 12, 1950 in Beverly, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Philip and C. Priscilla Murphy.
(The importance of Native American realism is traced throu...)
The importance of Native American realism is traced through a study of the evolution of dramatic theory from the early 1890s through World War I and the uniquely American innovations in realistic drama between world wars.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521327113/?tag=2022091-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00D5FK5O8/?tag=2022091-20
(This is the first book to provide a critical history of o...)
This is the first book to provide a critical history of one of the American theater's most famous plays, Death of a Salesman. Brenda Murphy offers a detailed account of the most significant Salesman productions throughout the world, on the stage as well as in film, radio, and television. The play has also provided a number of memorable interpretations by actors such as Dustin Hoffman, George C. Scott, Frederic March, and Mel Gibson. The volume includes a production chronology, bibliography, discography, videography, and photographs from key productions.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521478650/?tag=2022091-20
(The importance of Native American realism is traced throu...)
The importance of Native American realism is traced through a study of the evolution of dramatic theory from the early 1890s through World War I and the uniquely American innovations in realistic drama between world wars.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00D5GXTUE/?tag=2022091-20
(Congressional Theatre is the first book to identify and e...)
Congressional Theatre is the first book to identify and examine the significant body of plays, films, and teleplays that responded to the actions of the House Committee on Un-American Activities during the "show business hearings" it held between 1947 and 1960. Among the writers discussed are Arthur Miller, Bertolt Brecht, Lillian Hellman, Maxwell Anderson, Elia Kazan, Barrie Stavis, Herman Wouk, Eric Bentley, Saul Levitt, Budd Schulberg, Carl Foreman, Abraham Polonsky, and Walter Bernstein.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521640881/?tag=2022091-20
(The Provincetown Players was a major cultural institution...)
The Provincetown Players was a major cultural institution in Greenwich Village from 1916 to 1922, when American Modernism was conceived and developed. This study considers the group's vital role, and its wider significance in twentieth century American culture. Describing the varied and often contentious response to modernity among the Players, Brenda Murphy reveals the central contribution of the group of poets around Alfred Kreymborg's Others magazine, including William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Mina Loy and Djuna Barnes, and such modernist artists as Marguerite and William Zorach, Charles Demuth and Bror Nordfeldt, to the Players' developing modernist aesthetics.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521838525/?tag=2022091-20
(This is a book-length study of the collaboration between ...)
This is a book-length study of the collaboration between Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan. Their intense creative relationship, fuelled by a deep personal affinity that endured until Williams's death, lasted from 1947 until 1960. The production of A Streetcar Named Desire established Williams as America's greatest playwright and Kazan as its most important director; together they created some of the most influential theatrical events of the post-war era. In this book Brenda Murphy analyses this artistic partnership and the plays and theatrical techniques the artists developed collaboratively in their productions of A Streetcar Named Desire, Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Sweet Bird of Youth. In addition, Murphy suggests alternative ways to examine the working relationship between playwright and director which can be applied to other practitioners in twentieth-century drama. The book contains numerous illustrations from important productions.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521035244/?tag=2022091-20
(The Provincetown Players was a major cultural institution...)
The Provincetown Players was a major cultural institution in Greenwich Village from 1916 to 1922, when American Modernism was conceived and developed. This study considers the group's vital role, and its wider significance in twentieth-century American culture. Describing the varied and often contentious response to modernity among the Players, Murphy reveals the central contribution of the group of poets around Alfred Kreymborg's Others magazine, including William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Mina Loy and Djuna Barnes, and such modernist artists as Marguerite and William Zorach, Charles Demuth and Bror Nordfeldt, to the Players' developing modernist aesthetics. The impact of their modernist art and ideas on such central Provincetown figures as Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, and Edna St. Vincent Millay and a second generation of artists, such as e. e. cummings and Edmund Wilson, who wrote plays for the Provincetown Playhouse, is evident in Murphy's close analysis of over thirty plays.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00I5R7U58/?tag=2022091-20
(This is a book-length study of the collaboration between ...)
This is a book-length study of the collaboration between Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan. Their intense creative relationship, fuelled by a deep personal affinity that endured until Williams's death, lasted from 1947 until 1960. The production of A Streetcar Named Desire established Williams as America's greatest playwright and Kazan as its most important director; together they created some of the most influential theatrical events of the post-war era. In this book Brenda Murphy analyses this artistic partnership and the plays and theatrical techniques the artists developed collaboratively in their productions of A Streetcar Named Desire, Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Sweet Bird of Youth. In addition, Murphy suggests alternative ways to examine the working relationship between playwright and director which can be applied to other practitioners in twentieth-century drama. The book contains numerous illustrations from important productions.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521400953/?tag=2022091-20
language educator literary critic
Murphy, Brenda Carol was born on May 12, 1950 in Beverly, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Philip and C. Priscilla Murphy.
AB summa cum laude, University Dayton, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy, Brown University, 1975.
From assistant professor to associate professor English St. Lawrence University, 1975-1987, associate dean academy affairs, 1985-1987, professor English, 1987-1989, University Connecticut, Storrs, 1989—2005, district professor, since 2005. Review panelist public programs division National Endowment of the Humanities, 1982, 83, 84, 87, 2003, education division, 1987, libraries division, 1988, 93, fellowships division, 1990, 94. Proposal evaluator The Annanberg Project, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1986, National Humanities Center, 1989, 90-92, 2000-2004, 06.
Advisory board American Library. Association/National Endowment for Humanities Project, 1985-1988. Consultant faculty Charter Oak State College, 1993-1997.
(Congressional Theatre is the first book to identify and e...)
(The importance of Native American realism is traced throu...)
(The importance of Native American realism is traced throu...)
(The importance of Native American realism is traced throu...)
(The Provincetown Players was a major cultural institution...)
(The Provincetown Players was a major cultural institution...)
(This is the first book to provide a critical history of o...)
(This is a book-length study of the collaboration between ...)
(This is a book-length study of the collaboration between ...)
Member Modern Language Association, Association for Theatre in Higher Education (forum representative 1991-1993), American Studies Association, N.E. Modern Language Association, Eugene O'Neill Society, American Theatre and Drama Society (president 1993-1995, vice president 1991-1993, board directors 1987-1990, 91-97, editor newsletter 1987-1990).
Daughter of Philip and C. Priscilla Murphy, m. George Monteiro, 1995.