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Last Operas and Plays (Revised)
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Last Operas and Plays (Revised) Paperback - 1995

by Gertrude Stein; Carl Van Vechten; Introduction by Bonnie Marranca

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"When I see a thing it is not a play for me, but when I write something that somebody else can see then it is a play for me." --Gertrude Stein

In the more than seventy-five plats Gertrude Stein wrote between 1913 and 1946, she envisioned a new dramaturgy, beginning with her pictorial conception of a play as a landscape. She drew into her plays the daily flow of life around her--including the natural world--and turned cities, villages, parts of the dramatic structure, and even her own friends into characters. She made punctuation and typography part of her compositional style and chose words for their joyful impact as sound andwordplay. For Strin, the writing process itself was always important in delevoping the "continuous present" at the heart of her work.

Long out of print, Last Opera and Plays again makes available many of Stein's most important and most-produced works. As a special feature, it also included her thought-provoking essay "Plays," in which she reflects on the experience in the theater of seeing and hearing, and on emotion and time. "Now nearly a half century after her deathe," writes Bonnie Marranca in her introduction, "it is indisputable that Gertrude Stein is the great American modernist mind. No American author has been more influential for more generations of artists in the worlds of theater, dance, music, poetry, painting, and fiction."

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In the more than seventy-five plays Gertrude Stein wrote between 1913 and 1946, she envisioned a new dramaturgy, beginning with her pictorial conception of a play as a landscape. This book makes available many of Stein's most important and most- produced works.

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  • Title Last Operas and Plays (Revised)
  • Author Gertrude Stein; Carl Van Vechten; Introduction by Bonnie Marranca
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition reprint
  • Pages 536
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, New York
  • Publication date 1995-05-22
  • ISBN 9780801849855 / 0801849853
  • Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.23 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 3.12 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Plays / Drama
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 94032404
  • Dewey Decimal Code 812.52

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  • Library Journal, 09/15/1995, Page 58

About the author

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. She was the author of many books, including The Making of Americans, Geography and Plays, Tender Buttons, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, and How To Write.

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