A 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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2005.
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Colección: | Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;
29. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.