A companion to twentieth-century American drama / edited by David Krasner.

• Superior document: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 29
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Krasner, David, 1952-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 29.
• Physical Description: xviii, 576 p. :; ill.
• Other title: The changing perceptions of American drama /; American drama, 1900-1915 /; Ethnic theatre in America /; Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell: staging feminism and modernism, 1915-1941 /; American experimentalism, American expressionism, and early O'Neill /; Many-faceted mirror: drama as reflection of uneasy modernity in the 1920s /; Playwrights and plays of the Harlem Renaissance /; Reading across the 1930s /; Famous unknowns: the dramas of Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein /; Eugene O'Neill: American drama and American modernism /; Fissures beneath the surface: drama in the 1940s and 1950s /; Tennessee Williams /; Expressing and exploring faith: religious drama in America /; The American Jewishness of Arthur Miller /; Drama of the 1960s /; Fifteen-love, thirty-love: Edward Albee /; The drama of the Black Arts Movement /; Sam Shepard and the American sunset: enchantment of the mythic West /; Staging the binary: Asian American theatre in the late twentieth century /; August Wilson /; Native American drama /; John Guare and the popular culture hype of celebrity status /; Writing beyond borders: a survey of US Latina/o drama /; "Off the porch and into the scene": southern women playwrights Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, Rebecca Gilman, and Jane Martin /; David Mamet: America on the American stage /; 1970-1990: disillusionment, identity, and discovery /; Maria Irene Fornes: acts of translation /; From eccentricity to endurance: Jewish comedy and the art of affirmation /; Repercussions and remainders in the plays of Paula Vogel: an essay in five moments /; Lesbian and gay drama /; American drama of the 1990s on tand off-broadway /; Solo performance drama: the self as other? /; Experimental drama at the end of the century /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1405110880 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by David Krasner.