A companion to twentieth-century American drama/

Other Authors: Krasner, David,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005
Series:Blackwell companions to literature and culture
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Table of 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 OʹNeill / Deanna M. Toten Beard
  • Many-faceted mirror: drama as reflection of uneasy modernity in the 1920s / Felicia Hardison Londre
  • 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 OʹNeill: 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
  • ohn Guare and the popular culture Jhype of celebrity status / Gene A. Plunka
  • Writing beyond borders: a survey of USLatina/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