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Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition

Any review of 20th-century American theatre invariably leads to the term realism. Yet despite the strong tradition of theatrical realism on the American stage, the term is frequently misidentified, and the practices to which it refers are often attacked as monolithically tyrannical, restricting the...

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Autor principal: Demastes, William W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2015.
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505 0 |a Preface: American Dramatic Realisms, Viable Frames of Thought / William W. Demastes; 1. Introduction: The Struggle for the Real-Interpretive Conflict, Dramatic Method, and the Paradox of Realism / Brian Richardson; 2. The Legacy of James A. Herne: American Realities and Realisms / Patricia D. Denison; 3. Whose Realism? Rachel Crothers's Power ""Struggle in the American Theatre / Yvonne Shafer; 4. The Provincetown Players' Experiments with Realism / J. Ellen Gainor; 5. Servant of Three Masters: Realism, Idealism, and "Hokum" in American High Comedy / Robert F. Gross. 
505 0 |a 6. Remembering the Disremembered: Feminist Realists of the Harlem Renaissance / Patricia R. Schroeder7. Eugene O'Neill and Reality in America / Frank R. Cunningham; 8. "Odets, Where Is Thy Sting?" Reassessing the "Playwright of the Proletariat" / John W. Frick; 9. Thornton Wilder, the Real, and Theatrical Realism / Christopher J. Wheatley; 10. Into the Foxhole: Feminism, Realism, and Lillian Hellman / Judith E. Barlow; 11. Tennessee Williams's "Personal Lyricism": Toward an Androgynous Form / Thomas P. Adler; 12. Arthur Miller: Revisioning Realism / Brenda Murphy. 
505 0 |a 13. Margins in the Mainstream: Contemporary Women Playwrights / Janet V. Haedicke14. The Limits of African-American Political Realism: Baraka's Dutchman and Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom / Eric Bergesen and William W. Demastes; 15. Anti-Theatricality and American Ideology: Mamet's Performative Realism / Michael L. Quinn; 16. The Hurlyburly Lies of the Causalist Mind: Chaos and the Realism of Rabe and Shepard / William W. Demastes and Michael Vanden Heuvel; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index. 
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