The History of Southern Drama /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Watson, Charles S., 1931- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2009.
Edition:Paperback edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Literature.
Intellectual life.
American drama.
DRAMA > American > General.
Theâtre americain > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire et critique.
American drama > Southern States > History and criticism.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Dans la litterature.
Southern States > In literature.
Southern States > Intellectual life.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 pages): illustrations, photographs
ISBN:9780813149998

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