基本説明
Organized chronologically, with plays, playwrights and movements clustered around different movements such as realism and experimentalism.
Full Description
This concise introduction to American drama gives readers an overview of how American drama developed from the end of the Second World War to the turn of the twenty-first century.
Provides a balanced assessment of the major plays and playwrights of the period.
Shows how these dramatists broke new ground in their contribution to political, economic, social and cultural debates, as well as in their dramaturgical strategies.
Organized chronologically, with plays, playwrights and movements clustered around different movements such as realism and experimentalism.
Gives readers a sense of the development of American drama over time.
Contents
List of Illustrations vi
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1 Politics, Existentialism, and American Drama, 1935-1945 4
2 Money is Life: American Drama, 1945-1959 27
3 Reality and Illusion: American Drama, 1960-1975 62
4 Mad as Hell: American Drama, 1976-1989 100
5 The Body in Pain: American Drama, 1990-2000 147
Notes 183
Selected Bibliography 192
Index 195
