Christopher Bigsby
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British writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Christopher William Edgar Bigsby FRSA FRSL, is a British literary analyst and novelist, with more than sixty books to his credit. Earlier in his writing career, his books were published under the name C. W. E. Bigsby. He has won awards for his work on the American theatre, for his biography of Arthur Miller, for his first novel, Hester, and for his work in study abroad. He holds honorary degrees from Bolton University and the Complutense University of Madrid.
Christopher Bigsby's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Cambridge history of American theatre (1998) (114)
- A critical introduction to twentieth-century American drama (1982) (106)
- Modern American Drama, 1945-2000 (1992) (53)
- The Cambridge companion to Arthur Miller (1997) (37)
- American theatre in context, from the beginnings to 1870 (1998) (33)
- The Politics of Anxiety: Contemporary Socialist Theatre in England (1981) (26)
- Arthur Miller: A Critical Study (2005) (25)
- Approaches to popular culture (1978) (24)
- The Cambridge Companion to David Mamet (2004) (23)
- Modern American drama, 1945-1990 (1994) (23)
- Superculture: American Popular Culture and Europe (1975) (23)
- Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: The Chain of Memory (2006) (19)
- Contemporary American Playwrights (2000) (16)
- The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture (1966) (14)
- The Radical imagination and the liberal tradition : interviews with English and American novelists (1982) (14)
- The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson (2007) (14)
- The Hieroglyphic Stage: American Theatre and Society, Post-Civil War to 1945 (1999) (13)
- Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (2007) (13)
- Contemporary English Drama (1981) (12)
- Paratheatricals and popular stage entertainment (1998) (11)
- Structure and management in the American theatre from the beginning to 1870 (1998) (11)
- The Second Black renaissance : essays in Black literature (1980) (11)
- The Black American Writer (1969) (11)
- Entering The Glass Menagerie (1997) (10)
- Dada and Surrealism (1972) (9)
- The Divided Mind of James Baldwin (1979) (9)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee's Morality Play (1967) (8)
- Plays and playwrights: 1800–1865 (1998) (8)
- Viewing America: Twenty-First-Century Television Drama (2013) (8)
- Confrontation and commitment : a study of contemporary American drama, 1959-66 (1969) (8)
- A Changing Theatre: New York and Beyond (1999) (8)
- A New Introduction to American Studies (2005) (8)
- Edward Albee: A collection of critical essays (1975) (8)
- August Wilson: the ground on which he stood (2007) (7)
- The emergence of the American actor (1998) (6)
- Writers in Conversation: With Christopher Bigsby (2001) (6)
- Confrontation and Commitment: A Study of Contemporary American Drama, 1959-66 (1969) (6)
- The performing self (2000) (5)
- Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom: cutting the historical record, dramatizing a blues CD (2007) (5)
- David Mamet and film (2004) (5)
- Drama as Cultural Sign: American Dramatic Criticism, 1945-1978 (1978) (5)
- Neil LaBute: Stage and Cinema (2007) (5)
- A piano and its history: family and transcending family (2007) (5)
- Thematic Design in the Novels of John Steinbeck (1972) (5)
- Blood and bones yet dressed in poetry:The drama of Sam Shepard (1998) (4)
- David Mamet: all true stories (2000) (4)
- Music: sound: technology (2001) (4)
- Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: Coda (2006) (4)
- Introduction: What, then, is the American? (2006) (3)
- Society and the novel in twentieth-century America (2001) (3)
- A View from East Anglia (1989) (3)
- A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama. 2: Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee. 3: Beyond Broadway (1986) (3)
- Modern American Drama, 1945–2000: Edward Albee: journey to apocalypse (2000) (2)
- A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama. Volume Two: Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee.@@@A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama. Volume Three: Beyond Broadway. (1986) (2)
- THE COMMITTED WRITER: JAMES BALDWIN AS DRAMATIST. (1967) (2)
- The Cambridge History of American Theatre. Vol. 1: Beginnings to 1870. Ed. by Don B. Wilmeth and Christopher Bigsby. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvi, 525 pp. $69.95, ISBN 0-521-47204-0.) (2000) (2)
- August Wilson’s relationship to black theatre: community, aesthetics, history and race (2007) (2)
- What Price Arthur Miller? An Analysis of The Price (1970) (2)
- File on Miller (1987) (2)
- Mamet and the actor (2004) (2)
- Curiouser and Curiouser: A Study of Edward Albee's Tiny Alice (1967) (2)
- Backwards to the future (1993) (2)
- The United States, war, and the twentieth century (2001) (2)
- Religion in the United States in the twentieth century: 1900-1960 (2001) (2)
- The second Black renaissance (1980) (2)
- Been here and gone (2007) (2)
- Why “The Crucible” is Important (2012) (2)
- Jitney, folklore and responsibility (2007) (2)
- Modern American Drama, 1945–2000: Eugene O'Neill's Endgame (2000) (1)
- American Theatre Design Since 1945 (2000) (1)
- Theatre Groups and Their Playwrights (1999) (1)
- African American music of the twentieth century (2001) (1)
- Hester: A romance (1994) (1)
- Arthur Miller: Poet (1998) (1)
- The American century (2001) (1)
- Modern American Drama, 1945–2000: Tennessee Williams: the theatricalising self (2000) (1)
- Arthur Miller: The Crucible (2004) (1)
- Viewing America: The Wire (HBO 2002–2008) (2013) (1)
- The Fall and After—: Arthur Miller's Confession (1967) (1)
- The last plays (2010) (1)
- Arthur Miller: In Memoriam (2007) (1)
- The Strategy of Madness: An Analysis of Edward Albee's "A Delicate Balance" (1968) (1)
- Bożena Shallcross. The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture. (2012) (1)
- An interview with August Wilson (2007) (1)
- Arthur Miller: Arthur Miller as a Jewish writer (2004) (1)
- David Mamet: Welcome to the Family (2009) (1)
- The Actor as Paradigm (1995) (1)
- The Holocaust, the Depression, and McCarthyism (2010) (1)
- Arthur Miller: After the Fall (2004) (1)
- Stone Tower: The Political Theater of Arthur Miller (review) (2009) (1)
- Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: Tadeusz Borowski: the world of stone (2006) (1)
- Plays by Susan Glaspell: The plays of Susan Glaspell (1987) (1)
- Directors and Direction (1999) (1)
- EDWARD ALBEE'S GEORGIA BALLAD (1968) (1)
- “Better alert than numb”: Albee since the eighties (2005) (1)
- Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman (2004) (1)
- Sam Shepard: Imagining America (1991) (1)
- The Contributors (1985) (0)
- Contemporary American Playwrights: Lanford Wilson (2000) (0)
- Are We All Cain? Arthur Miller and the Holocaust (2010) (0)
- Cultural change in the United States since World War II (1986) (0)
- Holocaust Drama: The Theater of Atrocity (review) (2012) (0)
- Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: Peter Weiss: the investigation (2006) (0)
- The tradition of social drama (2010) (0)
- Arthur Miller: The radio plays (2004) (0)
- Secret America: the CIA and American culture (2001) (0)
- Arthur Miller: Realism, Language, Poetry (2010) (0)
- Werner Sollers, Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones: The Quest for a “ Populist Modernism ” (New York, Columbia Univ. Press, 1978, $16.95). Pp xii, 338. (1979) (0)
- The Sopranos (HBO 1999–2007) (2013) (0)
- Download Document (2011) (0)
- The Michigan plays (2004) (0)
- Contemporary American Playwrights: Paula Vogel (2000) (0)
- Arthur Miller: Incident at Vichy (2004) (0)
- Elie Wiesel: to forget is to deny (2006) (0)
- Arthur Miller: Fiction (2004) (0)
- Modern American Drama, 1945–2000: Redefining the centre: politics, race, gender (2000) (0)
- Viewing America: The West Wing (NBC 1999–2006) (2013) (0)
- Arthur Miller: Mr Peters' Connections (2004) (0)
- The Plays and Playwrights (1999) (0)
- Revisiting the American West Margaret Walsh (2014) (0)
- Modern American Drama, 1945–2000: The absent voice: American drama and the critic (2000) (0)
- One Hundred Days, One Hundred Nights (2008) (0)
- Arthur Miller: Arthur Miller: time-traveller (2004) (0)
- Radio Golf: the courage of his convictions - survival, success and spirituality (2007) (0)
- Arthur Miller: The American Clock (2004) (0)
- Arthur Miller: The shearing point (2004) (0)
- Arthur Miller: A View from the Bridge (2004) (0)
- Arthur Miller: The Creation of the World and Other Business (2004) (0)
- Arthur Miller: An Enemy of the People (2004) (0)
- Miller's 1970s "power" plays (1997) (0)
- Modern American Drama, 1945–2000: Arthur Miller: the moral imperative (2000) (0)
- Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Stephen J. Bottoms (review) (2013) (0)
- David Mamet’s fiction (2004) (0)
- A Broadway interlude (2000) (0)
- Musical Theatre since World War II (2000) (0)
- Contemporary American Playwrights: Tina Howe (2000) (0)
- The Contributors (1997) (0)
- The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee: “Better alert than numb” (2005) (0)
- Arthur Miller: The Man Who Had All the Luck (2004) (0)
- Arthur Miller: The Archbishop's Ceiling (2004) (0)
- Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: Anne Frank: everybody's heroine (2006) (0)
- Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: Memory theft (2006) (0)
- Screen violence: a clockwork orange (1976) (0)
- The regions and regionalism (2001) (0)
- America and War (2005) (0)
- Viewing America: Bibliography (2013) (0)
- A View from the Bridge (2014) (0)
- Arthur Miller: A Memory of Two Mondays (2004) (0)
- Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: The past remembered (2006) (0)
- An unheeded diamond (2002) (0)
- Arthur Miller: Playing for Time (2004) (0)
- Arthur Miller: The one-act plays: Two-Way Mirror , and Danger: Memory! (2004) (0)
- Viewing America: Mad Men (AMC 2007–2014) (2013) (0)
- Remembering Arthur Miller (2005) (0)
- Arthur Miller: The Golden Years, The Half-Bridge, Boro Hall Nocturne (2004) (0)
- Contemporary American Playwrights: Wendy Wasserstein (2000) (0)
- Writers in Conversation Vol.3 (2000) (0)
- The early plays (1997) (0)
- Contemporary American Playwrights: Tony Kushner (2000) (0)
- The Oxford Companion To American Theatre . By Gerald Bordman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984. £35. (1986) (0)
- Arthur Miller: Broken Glass (2004) (0)
- Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: Primo Levi: from the darkness to the light (2006) (0)
- Arthur Miller: The Ride Down Mount Morgan (2004) (0)
- Miller’s 19s “power” plays (2010) (0)
- Arthur Miller: Introduction (2004) (0)
- Modern American Drama, 1945–2000: Beyond Broadway (2000) (0)
- Miller in the nineties (1997) (0)
- The Hispanic background of the United States (2001) (0)
- Viewing America: Homicide: Life on the Street (NBC 1993–1999) (2013) (0)
- Arthur Miller: The Misfits (2004) (0)
- NTQ volume 14 issue 53 Cover and Back matter (1998) (0)
- British Drama since 1960 (1981) (0)
- The Violent Image: The Significance of Kenneth Brown's "The Brig" (1967) (0)
- Generation Kill (HBO 2008) (2013) (0)
- Contemporary American Playwrights: Richard Nelson (2000) (0)
- Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: Arthur Miller: the rememberer (2006) (0)
- A Conversation with Christopher Bigsby (2011) (0)
- Contemporary American Playwrights: Marsha Norman (2000) (0)
- The American Play, 1787–2000 . By Marc Robinson. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. x + 406 + illus. $45/£30 Hb. (2011) (0)
- A critical introduction to twentieth-century American drama.Vol. 2, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee (1986) (0)
- Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee (1984) (0)
- Arthur Miller: The Price (2004) (0)
- Friday Night Lights (NBC/DirectTV 2006–2011) (2013) (0)
- Arthur Miller: Note on the text (2004) (0)
- Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: W. G. Sebald: an act of restitution (2006) (0)
- Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: Rolf Hochhuth: breaking the silence (2006) (0)
- Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: Jean Améry: home and language (2006) (0)
- Houston A. Baker Jr., Twentieth Century Interpretations of Native Son (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1972, $1·45). Pp. 124.Keneth Kinnamon, The Emergence of Richard Wright: A Study in Literature and Society (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1972, $7·50). Pp. 200. (1974) (0)
- Arthur Miller: The Last Yankee (2004) (0)
- Viewing America: Treme (HBO 2010–2014) (2013) (0)
- A Changing Theatre: Broadway to the Regions (2000) (0)
- The Corner (HBO 2000) (2013) (0)
- The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson: Frontmatter (2007) (0)
- Viewing America: Battlestar Galactica (Syfy Channel/Sky 2004–2009) (2013) (0)
- Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture (2004) (0)
- Addison Gayle, Richard Wright: Ordeal of a Native Son (New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1980, $14.95). Pp. xvi, 342. - Robert G. O'Meally, The Craft of Ralph Ellison (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard Univ. Press, 1980). Pp. 212. (1982) (0)
- Plays by Susan Glaspell: THE OUTSIDE (1987) (0)
- Arthur Miller: Resurrection Blues (2004) (0)
- The Crucible (2014) (0)
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