The Oxford Handbook of American Drama
The Oxford Handbook of American Drama

Author: Jeffrey H. Richards

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-02

Total Pages: 593

ISBN-13: 0199731497

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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. It traces the emergence of different types of American drama including protest plays, reform drama, political drama, experimental drama, urban plays, feminist drama and realist plays. This volume also analyzes the works of some of the most notable American playwrights including Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller and those written by women dramatists.

New Native American Drama
New Native American Drama

Author: Hanay Geiogamah

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780806116976

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This first collection of plays by an Indian playwright presents a spectrum of Indian life that ranges in time from the past to the present and on into the future. Body Indian, the earliest, most widely performed, and most highly acclaimed of Geiogamah's plays, deals with a problem of the present -Indian alcoholism. But the play is not so much about alcoholism as it is about the social and moral obligations that Indian people owe to one another. Foghorn, through the use of humor rather than bitterness, tries to exorcise the harmful stereotyping that often stands in the way of non-Indians' understanding of Indians, and even on occasion of Indians' own appreciation of themselves. In the play 49 the author links the past with the present and points a road to the future. Here the approach is synchronic rather than diachronic. The value of Indian traditions is emphasized -but only where those traditions are used imaginatively and not treated as ossified relics to be blindly venerated. 49 celebrates the continuity of Indian life in the vigor of new forms and with an abiding optimism. This collection of plays-all widely performed and seriously and extensively reviewed-adds a new and important voice to the small body of Indian authors who write about their own people.

The New American Drama
The New American Drama

Author: Richard Burton

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-12

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 9781330053928

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Excerpt from The New American Drama This study of present dramatic conditions is not a catalogue of plays and playwrights. It does not essay with meticulous detail to ferret out minute happenings by the analytic method. It is, rather, an attempt, let us hope not altogether amiss, to put before the reader in synthetic fashion the native movement of our time in drama, placing emphasis upon what seem significant tendencies and illustrative personalities. The writer has endeavored to draw together the main threads of development, so that a notion of what was, is and may be shall be gained. It is a more difficult task to point out concisely the essential accomplishment, than it is to set down, with the zeal of the grubber for dates, all the tiny doings from Royall Tyler to Clyde Fitch. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

We the People
We the People

Author: Leo Huberman

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 1932-01-01

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1583674845

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A history of labour and the labour movement in the USA, originally published in the 1930s. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents Include: Here They Come! - Beginnings - Are All Men Equal? - Molasses and Tea - "In Order To Form a More Perfect Union" - A Rifle, An Axe - A Strange, Colourful Frontier, The Last - The Manufacturing North - The Agricultural South - Landlords Fight Money Lords - Materials, Men, Machinery, Money - More Materials, Men, Machinery, Money - The Have-nots vs The Haves - From Rags To Riches - From Riches To Rags - The New Deal..Relief - . Recovery - .Reform - .Foreign Policy - "You Guys Gotta Organize" -

The Routledge Introduction to American Drama
The Routledge Introduction to American Drama

Author: Paul Thifault

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-06-29

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1000598691

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This volume provides an accessible and engaging guide to the study of American dramatic literature. Designed to support students in reading, discussing, and writing about commonly assigned American plays, this text offers timely resources to think critically and originally about key moments on the American stage. Combining comprehensive coverage of the core plays from the post-Revolutionary era to the present, each chapter includes: historical and cultural context of each of the plays and their distinctive literary features clear introductions to the ongoing critical debates they have provoked collaborative prompts for classroom or online discussion annotated bibliographies for further research With its accessible prose style and clear structure, this introduction spotlights specific plays while encouraging students to contemplate timely questions of American identity across its selected span of US theatrical history.