Table of Contents:
  • Nationalism and native culture in Virginia
  • Prolific playwriting in Charleston
  • The dramatist as humorist in New Orleans
  • Drama goes to war
  • The modern drama of Espy Williams
  • The leadership of Paul Green
  • DuBose Heyward's transmutation of black culture
  • The Southern Marxism of Lillian Hellman
  • Black drama : politics or culture
  • Randolph Edmonds and civil rights
  • The cultural imagination of Tennessee Williams
  • Past and present cultures in recent drama.