A companion to twentieth-century American drama [electronic resource] / edited by David Krasner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The changing perceptions of American drama / David Krasner -- American drama, 1900-1915 / Mark Evans Bryan -- Ethnic theatre in America / Rachel Shteir -- Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell: staging feminism and modernism, 1915-1941 / J. Ellen Gainor, Jerry Dickey -- American experimentalism, American expressionism, and early O'Neill / Deanna M. Toten Beard -- Many-faceted mirror: drama as reflection of uneasy modernity in the 1920s / Felicia Hardison Londré -- Playwrights and plays of the Harlem Renaissance / Annemarie Bean -- Reading across the 1930s / Anne Fletcher -- Famous unknowns: the dramas of Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein / Sarah Bay-Cheng -- Eugene O'Neill: American drama and American modernism / David Krasner -- Fissures beneath the surface: drama in the 1940s and 1950s / Thomas P. Adler -- Tennessee Williams / Brenda A. Murphy -- Expressing and exploring faith: religious drama in America / Peter Civetta -- The American Jewishness of Arthur Miller / Murray Biggs -- Drama of the 1960s / Christopher Olsen -- Fifteen-love, thirty-love: Edward Albee / Steven Price -- The drama of the Black Arts Movement / Mike Sell -- Sam Shepard and the American sunset: enchantment of the mythic West / Leslie A. Wade -- Staging the binary: Asian American theatre in the late twentieth century / Daphne Lei -- August Wilson / Harry J. Elam, Jr. -- Native American drama / Ann Haugo -- John Guare and the popular culture hype of celebrity status / Gene A. Plunka -- Writing beyond borders: a survey of US Latina/o drama / Tiffany Ana Lopez -- "Off the porch and into the scene": southern women playwrights Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, Rebecca Gilman, and Jane Martin / Linda Rohrer Paige -- David Mamet: America on the American stage / Janet V. Haedicke -- 1970-1990: disillusionment, identity, and discovery / Mark Fearnow -- Maria Irene Fornes: acts of translation / Andrew Sofer -- From eccentricity to endurance: Jewish comedy and the art of affirmation / Julia Listengarten -- Repercussions and remainders in the plays of Paula Vogel: an essay in five moments / Ann Pellegrini -- Lesbian and gay drama / Jill Dolan -- American drama of the 1990s on tand off-broadway / June Schleuter -- Solo performance drama: the self as other? / Stephen J. Bottoms -- Experimental drama at the end of the century / Ehren Fordyce.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.