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A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama
David Krasner (Edited by), D Krasner (Author)
9781405163682, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 6 March 2007
608 pages
23.9 x 16.8 x 4.6 cm, 1.066 kg
“This Companion provides an original and authoritative survey of twentieth-century American drama studies, written by some of the best scholars and critics in the field.” (Stephen Baker Hot Fiction Books, 31 December 2012)
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A COMPANION TO ‘TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN DRAMA Contributors to this volume: Thomas P. Adler, Sarah Bay-Cheng, Annemarie Bean, Deanna M. Toten Beard, Murray Biggs, Stephen J. Bottoms, Mark Evans Bryan, Peter Civetta, Jerry Dickey, Jill Dolan, Harry J. Elam, Jr., Mark Fearnow, Anne Fletcher, Ehren Fordyce, J. Ellen Gainor, Janet V. Haedicke, Ann Haugo, David Krasner, Daphne Lei, Julia Listengarten, Felicia Hardison Londré, Tiffany Ana Lopez, Brenda A. Murphy, Christopher Olsen, Linda Rohrer Paige, Ann Pellegrini, Gene A. Plunka, Steven price, June Schlueter, Mike Sell, Rachel Shteir, Molly Smith. Andrew Sofer, Leslie A. Wade Also available in The Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture series:
List of Illustrations x Notes on Contributors xii Foreword by Molly Smith xvii Acknowledgments xix 1. Introduction: The Changing Perceptions of American Drama 1 2. American Drama, 1900–1915 3 3. Ethnic Theatre in America 18 4. Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell: Staging Feminism and Modernism, 1915–1941 34 5. American Experimentalism, American Expressionism, and Early O’Neill 53 6. Many-Faceted Mirror: Drama as Reflection of Uneasy Modernity in the 1920s 69 7. Playwrights and Plays of the Harlem Renaissance 91 8. Reading Across the 1930s 106 9. Famous Unknowns: The Dramas of Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein 127 10. Eugene O’Neill: American Drama and American Modernism 142 11. Fissures Beneath the Surface: Drama in the 1940s and 1950s 159 12. Tennessee Williams 175 13. Expressing and Exploring Faith: Religious Drama in America 192 14. The American Jewishness of Arthur Miller 209 15. Drama of the 1960s 229 16. Fifteen-Love, Thirty-Love: Edward Albee 247 17. The Drama of the Black Arts Movement 263 18. Sam Shepard and the American Sunset: Enchantment of the Mythic West 285 19. Staging the Binary: Asian American Theatre in the Late Twentieth Century 301 20. August Wilson 318 21. Native American Drama 334 22. John Guare and the Popular Culture Hype of Celebrity Status 352 23. Writing Beyond Borders: A Survey of US Latina/o Drama 370 24. ‘‘Off the Porch and into the Scene’’: Southern Women Playwrights Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, Rebecca Gilman, and Jane Martin 388 25. David Mamet: America on the American Stage 406 26. 1970–1990: Disillusionment, Identity, and Discovery 423 27. Maria Irene Fornes: Acts of Translation 440 28. From Eccentricity to Endurance: Jewish Comedy and the Art of Affirmation 456 29. Repercussions and Remainders in the Plays of Paula Vogel: An Essay in Five Moments 473 30. Lesbian and Gay Drama 486 31. American Drama of the 1990s On and Off-Broadway 504 32. Solo Performance Drama: The Self as Other? 519 33. Experimental Drama at the End of the Century 536 Index 552
David Krasner
Mark Evans Bryan
Rachel Shteir
J. Ellen Gainor and Jerry Dickey
Deanna M. Toten Beard
Felicia Hardison Londré
Annemarie Bean
Anne Fletcher
Sarah Bay-Cheng
David Krasner
Thomas P. Adler
Brenda A. Murphy
Peter Civetta
Murray Biggs
Christopher Olsen
Steven Price
Mike Sell
Leslie A. Wade
Daphne Lei
Harry J. Elam, Jr.
Ann Haugo
Gene A. Plunka
Tiffany Ana Lopez
Linda Rohrer Paige
Janet V. Haedicke
Mark Fearnow
Andrew Sofer
Julia Listengarten
Ann Pellegrini
Jill Dolan
June Schlueter
Stephen J. Bottoms
Ehren Fordyce
Subject Areas: Literature: history & criticism [DS]
