| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction / Jeffrey H. Richards -- Theatre companies before the Revolution / Odai Johnson -- Revolutionary American drama and theater / Jason Shaffer -- Early Republican drama / Jeffrey H. Richards -- The politics of antebellum melodrama / Scott C. Martin -- Minstrelsy and Uncle Tom / Sarah Meer -- Representing ethnic identity on the antebellum stage, 1825-1861 / Heather S. Nathans -- Antebellum plays by women : contexts and themes / Amelia Howe Kritzer -- Reform drama / Mark Mullen -- Antebellum frontier and urban plays, 1825-1860 / Rosemarie Bank -- Late melodrama / Mark Hodin -- A new realism / Mark Fearnow -- American musical theatre, 1870 to 1945 / Thomas S. Hischak -- The new woman, the suffragist, and the stage / Katherine E. Kelly -- The Rise of African American Drama, 1822-79 / Marvin McAllister -- The Provincetown players in American culture / Brenda Murphy -- Eugene O'Neill / Steven F. Bloom -- Naturalism and expressionism in American drama / Julia A. Walker -- American Political Drama, 1910-45 / Christopher J. Herr -- Federal Theatre Project / Barry B. Witham -- African American Drama, 1910-45 / Kathy A. Perkins -- Arthur Miller : a radical politics of the soul / Jeffrey D. Mason -- Tennessee Williams and the Winemiller Inheritance / Stephen Bottoms -- Experimental theatre : beyond illusion / Theodore Shank -- Post-World War II African American theater / Harry J. Elam, Jr. -- The postwar musical / Michelle Dvoskin -- Postwar protest plays / S.E. Wilmer -- Feminist drama / Dorothy Chansky -- Postwar drama and technology / Roger Bechtel -- Drama and the new sexualities / Jordan Schildcrout -- Political drama / Stephen Watt -- Ethnicity and postwar drama / Jon D. Rossini -- Running lines : narratives of twenty-first-century American theater / Marc Robinson |
| Summary |
This volume explores the history of American drama from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It describes origins of early republican drama and its evolution during the pre-war and post-war periods. It traces the emergence of different types of American drama including protest plays, reform drama, political drama, experimental drama, urban plays, feminist drama and realist plays. This volume also analyzes the works of some of the most notable American playwrights including Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller and those written by women dramatists |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 9, 2014) |
| Subject |
American drama -- History and criticism
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Theater -- United States -- History
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American drama
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Theater
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Richards, Jeffrey H., editor
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Nathans, Heather S., editor
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| ISBN |
9780199983131 |
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0199983135 |
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