A Reader's Guide to Modern American DramaSyracuse University Press, 01/04/2002 - 272 páginas Sanford Sternlicht presents a comprehensive survey of modern American drama beginning with its antecedents in Victorian melodrama through the present. He discusses the work and achievement of more than seventy playwrights, from Eugene O’Neill to Suzan-Lori Parks—from the golden era of Broadway to the rise of Off-Broadway and regional theater. Stern-licht shows how world theater influenced the American stage, and how the views of American dramatists reflected the great American social movements of their times. In addition, he describes the contributions of early experimental theater, the Federal Theater of the 1930s, African American, feminist, and gay and lesbian drama—and the joyous trends and triumphs of American musical theater. |
Índice
The NineteenthCentury Inheritance | 3 |
America and the Themes of Early Modern American Drama | 7 |
Modernism | 9 |
Early Experimental Drama and the Little Theater Movement | 11 |
Drama in the American University | 13 |
The Federal Theatre | 14 |
OffBroadway Producing Companies | 15 |
African American Drama | 19 |
Feminist Drama | 21 |
Gay and Lesbian Drama | 22 |
The American Musical Play from Operetta to Sondheim | 23 |
Themes in Modern American Drama | 29 |
American Master and | 106 |
PostWorld War II | 206 |
Selected Critical Bibliography | 241 |
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