Screen LibraryA companion to twentieth-century American drama
This Companion provides an authoritative survey of twentieth-century American drama studies. Comprising over 30 original essays written by some of the best scholars and critics in the field, it emphasizes research and in-depth analysis, and is informed by debates drawn from past and present dramatur...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470996805 |
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This Companion provides an authoritative survey of twentieth-century American drama studies. Comprising over 30 original essays written by some of the best scholars and critics in the field, it emphasizes research and in-depth analysis, and is informed by debates drawn from past and present dramaturgical discussions. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xviii, 576 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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1405137347 (electronic bk.) 9781405137348 (electronic bk.) 9781405110884 (electronic) 1405110880 (electronic) 9781405165129 140516512X 1280198737 9781280198731 9780470996805 0470996803 |
| Index Number: | PS350 |
| CLC: | J809.712 |
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The changing perceptions of American drama / American drama, 1900-1915 / Ethnic theatre in America / Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell: staging feminism and modernism, 1915-1941 / American experimentalism, American expressionism, and early O'Neill / Many-faceted mirror: drama as reflection of uneasy modernity in the 1920s / Playwrights and plays of the Harlem Renaissance / Reading across the 1930s / Famous unknowns: the dramas of Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein / Eugene O'Neill: American drama and American modernism / Fissures beneath the surface: drama in the 1940s and 1950s / Tennessee Williams / Expressing and exploring faith: religious drama in America / The American Jewishness of Arthur Miller / Drama of the 1960s / Fifteen-love, thirty-love: Edward Albee / The drama of the Black Arts Movement / Sam Shepard and the American sunset: enchantment of the mythic West / Staging the binary: Asian American theatre in the late twentieth century / August Wilson / Native American drama / John Guare and the popular culture hype of celebrity status / Writing beyond borders: a survey of US Latina/o drama / "Off the porch and into the scene": southern women playwrights Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, Rebecca Gilman, and Jane Martin / David Mamet: America on the American stage / 1970-1990: disillusionment, identity, and discovery / Maria Irene Fornes: acts of translation / From eccentricity to endurance: Jewish comedy and the art of affirmation / Repercussions and remainders in the plays of Paula Vogel: an essay in five moments / Lesbian and gay drama / American drama of the 1990s on tand off-broadway / Solo performance drama: the self as other? / Experimental drama at the end of the century / |