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9 lip 2024 · American literature - Drama, Plays, Theater: Two post-World War II playwrights established reputations comparable to Eugene O’Neill’s. Arthur Miller wrote eloquent essays defending his modern, democratic concept of tragedy; despite its abstract, allegorical quality and portentous language, Death of a Salesman (1949) came close to ...
This volume explores the history of American drama from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It describes origins of early republican drama and its evolution during the pre-war and post-war periods.
13 sty 2014 · This volume focuses on drama before the age of Eugene O’Neill and considers the elements of pre- or proto-realist theater. It explains the reasons for studying drama and highlights the way it is connected to cultural formation in ways that other literary genres are not.
The Cambridge History of American Theatre. dimensions, from theatre build-ing to play writing, directors, performers, and designers. Engaging the theatre as a performance art, a cultural institution, and a fact of American social and political life, the History recognizes changing styles of presentation.
American Drama. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995. Explores the coming of age of American drama through chapter essays on prominent playwrights, and a final essay on contemporary feminist...
A latecomer to literary history, American drama had its beginnings in the two preceding centuries, during which it slowly developed from plays modeled on foreign subjects and on the prevailing...
Postwar playwrights turned their attention to national re-union and to staging the western frontier. Late nineteenth-century immigration brought transnational and intercultural influences to American drama, which increasingly veered toward more realistic treatment of contemporary social issues.
