(Re)Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth-Century American Drama
(Re)Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth-Century American Drama

Author: L. Bailey McDaniel

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-09-04

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1137299576

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Looking at a century of American theatre, McDaniel investigates how race-based notions of maternal performance become sites of resistance to cultural and political hierarchies. This book considers how the construction of mothering as universally women's work obscures additional, equally constructed subdivisions based in race and class.

A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama
A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama

Author: David Krasner

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13: 1405137347

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This Companion provides an original and authoritative surveyof twentieth-century American drama studies, written by some of thebest scholars and critics in the field. Balances consideration of canonical material with discussion ofworks by previously marginalized playwrights Includes studies of leading dramatists, such as TennesseeWilliams, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill and Gertrude Stein Allows readers to make new links between particular plays andplaywrights Examines the movements that framed the century, such as theHarlem Renaissance, lesbian and gay drama, and the soloperformances of the 1980s and 1990s Situates American drama within larger discussions aboutAmerican ideas and culture

Mendel’s Theatre
Mendel’s Theatre

Author: T. Wolff

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-05-11

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0230621279

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Mendel's Theatre offers a new way of thinking about early twentieth-century American drama by uncovering the rich convergence of heredity theory, the American eugenics movement, and innovative modern drama from the 1890s to 1930.

(Re)Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth-Century American Drama
(Re)Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth-Century American Drama

Author: L. Bailey McDaniel

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-09-04

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1137299576

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Looking at a century of American theatre, McDaniel investigates how race-based notions of maternal performance become sites of resistance to cultural and political hierarchies. This book considers how the construction of mothering as universally women's work obscures additional, equally constructed subdivisions based in race and class.

The Family in Twentieth-century American Drama
The Family in Twentieth-century American Drama

Author: Thaddeus Wakefield

Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13:

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The central subject of American drama is, arguably, the American family. From Royall Tyler's colonial comedy The Contrast (1787) to August Wilson's King Hedley II (2000), relationships between husbands, wives, and their children have been used consistently by American playwrights to explore and illuminate the American experience. This study of the family in twentieth-century American drama explores how filial relationships are affected by the capitalistic culture of consumption that permeates twentieth-century American society. By analyzing relationships within both traditional and nontraditional families, this book examines how family members in American plays perceive themselves and others as «things» in American twentieth-century capitalistic society.

American Drama 1945 - 2000
American Drama 1945 - 2000

Author: David Krasner

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 2006-08-11

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781405120876

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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.