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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:

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Author:   David Krasner (Yale University)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 16.80cm , Height: 4.60cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   1.066kg
ISBN:  

9781405163682

ISBN 10:   1405163682
Pages:   608
Publication Date:   06 March 2007
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

?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) ?This volume includes more than 30 meticulously researched essays, some with illustrations, by the best-known contemporary experts on American drama and theater ? Highly recommended. All collections; all levels.? Choice

This volume includes more than 30 meticulously researched essays, some with illustrations, by the best-known contemporary experts on American drama and theater ... Highly recommended. All collections; all levels. Choice

Author Information

David Krasner is an instructor in Theatre Studies, English, and African American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Resistance, Parody, and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre, 1895-1910 and A Beautiful Pageant: African American Theatre, Drama, and Performance in the Harlem Renaissance (2002). He has twice won the Errol Hill Award from the American Society for Theatre Research for the best book or essay on African American theatre history. He has also worked as a professional actor and director.

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