Israel Horovitz: A Collection of Critical Essays

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This is the first collection of scholarly essays dedicated to an assessment of this playwright's prodigious body of work. The 13 essays--12 original and one revised and expanded for this volume--present the most timely and provocative thinking on Horovitz's canon (more than 50 plays), and address such subjects as ethnicity; violence; feminism; social commitment; the role of mythology; the influence of Aeschylus, Beckett, Ionesco, O'Neill, and Albee; and Horovitz's contribution to American drama. Also included are an interview with the playwright conducted by the editor specifically for this collection, a comprehensive chronology of his life and productions, and the most current primary and selected secondary bibliography.

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This nicely balanced collection of essays plus an extensive interview and a penetrating introduction, should make more Americans aware of Horovitz and his works. Strongly recommended for academic collections, upper-division undergraduate and above.-Choice
"This nicely balanced collection of essays plus an extensive interview and a penetrating introduction, should make more Americans aware of Horovitz and his works. Strongly recommended for academic collections, upper-division undergraduate and above."-Choice

Author Bio

LESLIE KANE is Professor of English at Westfield State College where she teaches modern drama and world literature. She is the author of The Language of Silence: On the Unspoken and the Unspeakable in Modern Drama and editor of David Mamet: A Casebook. Her essays and reviews have appeared in numerous journals and books, including The Pinter Review, World Literature Today, The Yearbook of English Studies, Theatre Journal,and Feminine Focus: The New Women Playwrights. She is currently writing Weasels and Wisemen: A Study of Jewish Identity in the Plays of Harold Pinter and David Mamet. Kane is vice-president of the Harold Pinter Society.