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The history of southern drama /

Mention southern drama at a cocktail party or in an American literature survey, and you may hear cries for ""Stella!"" or laments for ""gentleman callers."" Yet southern drama depends on much more than a menagerie of highly strung spinsters and steel magnolias...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Watson, Charles S., 1931- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2009.
Edición:Paperback edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Mention southern drama at a cocktail party or in an American literature survey, and you may hear cries for ""Stella!"" or laments for ""gentleman callers."" Yet southern drama depends on much more than a menagerie of highly strung spinsters and steel magnolias. Charles Watson explores this field from its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century roots through the southern Literary Renaissance and Tennessee Williams's triumphs to the plays of Horton Foote, winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize. Such well known modern figures as Lillian Hellman and DuBose Heyward earn fresh looks, as does Tennessee Williams
Descripción Física:1 online resource (280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, photographs
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813149998
0813149991
0813170230
9780813170237