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Book SynopsisA 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
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“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.”
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Table of ContentsList 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
