| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 576 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 29 |
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 29.
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| Contents |
Introduction: The changing perceptions of American drama / David Krasner -- American drama, 1900-1915 / Mark Evans Bryan -- Ethnic theatre in America / Rachel Shteir -- Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell: staging feminism and modernism, 1915-1941 / J. Ellen Gainor, Jerry Dickey -- American experimentalism, American expressionism, and early O'Neill / Deanna M. Toten Beard -- Many-faceted mirror: drama as reflection of uneasy modernity in the 1920s / Felicia Hardison Londré -- Playwrights and plays of the Harlem Renaissance / Annemarie Bean -- Reading across the 1930s / Anne Fletcher -- Famous unknowns: the dramas of Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein / Sarah Bay-Cheng -- Eugene O'Neill: American drama and American modernism / David Krasner -- Fissures beneath the surface: drama in the 1940s and 1950s / Thomas P. Adler -- Tennessee Williams / Brenda A. Murphy -- Expressing and exploring faith: religious drama in America / Peter Civetta -- The American Jewishness of Arthur Miller / Murray Biggs -- Drama of the 1960s / Christopher Olsen -- Fifteen-love, thirty-love: Edward Albee / Steven Price -- The drama of the Black Arts Movement / Mike Sell -- Sam Shepard and the American sunset: enchantment of the mythic West / Leslie A. Wade -- Staging the binary: Asian American theatre in the late twentieth century / Daphne Lei -- August Wilson / Harry J. Elam, Jr. -- Native American drama / Ann Haugo -- John Guare and the popular culture hype of celebrity status / Gene A. Plunka -- Writing beyond borders: a survey of US Latina/o drama / Tiffany Ana Lopez -- "Off the porch and into the scene": southern women playwrights Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, Rebecca Gilman, and Jane Martin / Linda Rohrer Paige -- David Mamet: America on the American stage / Janet V. Haedicke -- 1970-1990: disillusionment, identity, and discovery / Mark Fearnow -- Maria Irene Fornes: acts of translation / Andrew Sofer -- From eccentricity to endurance: Jewish comedy and the art of affirmation / Julia Listengarten -- Repercussions and remainders in the plays of Paula Vogel: an essay in five moments / Ann Pellegrini -- Lesbian and gay drama / Jill Dolan -- American drama of the 1990s on tand off-broadway / June Schleuter -- Solo performance drama: the self as other? / Stephen J. Bottoms -- Experimental drama at the end of the century / Ehren Fordyce |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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DRAMA -- American.
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American drama
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Toneelstukken.
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Amerikaans.
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Teatro (história e crítica) -- S;século 20 -- Estados unidos.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Handbooks and manuals
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Krasner, David, 1952-
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| LC no. |
2004007690 |
| ISBN |
1405137347 |
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9781405137348 |
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9781405110884 |
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1405110880 |
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9781405165129 |
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140516512X |
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1280198737 |
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9781280198731 |
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9780470996805 |
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0470996803 |
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1782684999 |
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9781782684992 |
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9786610198733 |
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661019873X |
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