Essays on Modern American Drama : : Williams, Miller, Albee, and Shepard / / ed. by Dorothy Parker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Bachman, Charles R.,; Bennett, Robert B.,; Bigsby, C. W. E.,; Corrigan, Mary Ann,; Flasch, Joy,; Gabbard, Lucina P.,; Gross, Barry,; Lowenthal, Lawrence D.,; Martin, Robert A.,; Moses, Robbie Odom,; Nash, Thomas,; Orbison, Tucker,; Parker, Brian,; Powe, Bruce W.,; Starnes, Leland,; Traubitz, Nancy Baker,
• HerausgeberIn: Parker, Dorothy,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

The best of modern American drama is represented in the seventeen essays of this collection. They explore the works of four of the most celebrated playwrights of the twentieth century: Tennessee Williams, Arthur miller, Edward Albee, and Sam Shepard.Among the rich variety of modern American playwrights these four stand above the rest. All four have created works that have received great critical acclaim and produced intense critical controversy. Very different in temperament and style, they bring strikingly different perspectives to their work; and yet all share a fascination with social and family structures, and all demonstrate extraordinary gifts with language.Each playwright is discussed in four or five essays, each essay in turn deals with one or two aspects of one play. Together these essays, originally published in the journal Modern Drama, provide a penetrating study of recent American theatre through the work of four of its very best dramatists.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One. Tennessee Williams 1911-1983 -- Myth as a Basis of Dramatic Structure in Orpheus Descending -- The Composition of The Glass Menagerie: An Argument for Complexity -- Realism and Theatricalism in A Streetcar Named Desire -- The Grotesque Children of The Rose Tattoo -- Part Two. Arthur Miller 1915- -- All My Sons and the Larger Context -- The Fall And After - Arthur Miller's Confession -- Arthur Miller's The Crucible: Background and Sources -- Arthur Miller's Incident At Vichy: A Sartrean Interpretation -- Part Three. Edward Albee 1928- -- Tragic Vision in The Zoo Story -- Games People Play in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? -- Curiouser and Curiouser: A Study of Edward Albee's Tiny Alice -- Death as a Mirror of Life: Edward Albee's All Over -- Albee's Seascape: An Adult Fairy Tale -- Part Four Sam Shepard 1943- -- Defusion of Menace in the Plays of Sam Shepard -- The Tooth of Crime: Sam Shepard's Way With Music -- Mythic Levels in Shepard's True West -- Sam Shepard's Buried Child: The Ironic Use of Folklore -- Chronology -- Bibliographical Note