UID:
almafu_9959328104202883
Format:
1 online resource (xviii, 576 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
1405137347
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9781405137348
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9781405110884
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1405110880
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9781405165129
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140516512X
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1280198737
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9781280198731
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9780470996805
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0470996803
Series Statement:
Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 29
Content:
This Companion provides an authoritative survey of twentieth-century American drama studies. Comprising over 30 original essays written by some of the best scholars and critics in the field, it emphasizes research and in-depth analysis, and is informed by debates drawn from past and present dramaturgical discussions.
Note:
The changing perceptions of American drama /
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American drama, 1900-1915 /
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Ethnic theatre in America /
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Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell: staging feminism and modernism, 1915-1941 /
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American experimentalism, American expressionism, and early O'Neill /
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Many-faceted mirror: drama as reflection of uneasy modernity in the 1920s /
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Playwrights and plays of the Harlem Renaissance /
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Reading across the 1930s /
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Famous unknowns: the dramas of Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein /
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Eugene O'Neill: American drama and American modernism /
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Fissures beneath the surface: drama in the 1940s and 1950s /
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Tennessee Williams /
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Expressing and exploring faith: religious drama in America /
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The American Jewishness of Arthur Miller /
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Drama of the 1960s /
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Fifteen-love, thirty-love: Edward Albee /
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The drama of the Black Arts Movement /
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Sam Shepard and the American sunset: enchantment of the mythic West /
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Staging the binary: Asian American theatre in the late twentieth century /
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August Wilson /
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Native American drama /
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John Guare and the popular culture hype of celebrity status /
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Writing beyond borders: a survey of US Latina/o drama /
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"Off the porch and into the scene": southern women playwrights Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, Rebecca Gilman, and Jane Martin /
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David Mamet: America on the American stage /
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1970-1990: disillusionment, identity, and discovery /
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Maria Irene Fornes: acts of translation /
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From eccentricity to endurance: Jewish comedy and the art of affirmation /
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Repercussions and remainders in the plays of Paula Vogel: an essay in five moments /
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Lesbian and gay drama /
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American drama of the 1990s on tand off-broadway /
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Solo performance drama: the self as other? /
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Experimental drama at the end of the century /
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English.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Companion to twentieth-century American drama. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005 ISBN 1405110880
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Electronic books.
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Handbooks and manuals.
DOI:
10.1002/9780470996805
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470996805
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470996805
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470996805