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A reader's guide to modern American drama
- Title
- A reader's guide to modern American drama / Sanford Sternlicht.
- Author
- Sternlicht, Sanford V.
- Publication
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2002.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 260 p.; 22 cm.
- Series Statement
- Reader's guides to literature
- Uniform Title
- Reader's guide series (Syracuse, N.Y.)
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-242) and index.
- Contents
- The nineteenth-century inheritance -- America and the themes of early modern American drama -- Modernism -- Early experimental drama and the little theater movement -- Drama in the American University -- The federal theater -- Off-Broadway producing companies -- African American drama -- Feminist drama -- Gay and lesbian drama ; The American musical play from operetta to Sondheim -- Themes in modern American drama -- Early-twentieth-century playwrights. Eugene O'Neill ; Maxwell Anderson ; George S. Kaufman ; Marc Connelly ; George Kelly ; Sidney Howard ; Elmer Rice ; S. N. Behrman ; Robert E. Sherwood ; Philip Barry ; Thornton Wilder ; Eliott Nugent ; Langston Hughes ; Lillian Hellman ; Clifford Odets ; Sidney Kingsley ; John Patrick ; William Saroyan -- Tennessee Williams: American master and the World War II generation. Garson Kanin ; William Inge ; Samuel Taylor ; William Gibson ; Arthur Miller ; Horton Foote ; Carson McCullers ; Robert Anderson ; Ossie Davis ; Arthur Laurents ; Paddy Chayefsky ; James Baldwin ; Charles Gordone ; Frank D. Gilroy ; Murray Schisgal ; Neil Simon -- Edward Albee and the post-World War II playwrights: American dramatists not old enough for service in World War II. Edward Albee ; Howard Sackler ; Bruce Jay Friedman ; Lorraine Hansberry ; A. R. Gurney ; Adrienne Kennedy ; Lonnie Elder III ; Jack Gelber ; Herb Gardner ; Imamu Amiri Baraka ; Joseph A. Walker ; Ed Bullins ; Mart Crowley ; Rochelle Owens ; Aflred Uhry ; Kenneth H. Brown ; Jean-Claude Van Itallie ; Lanford Wilson ; Arthur Kopit ; Tina Howe ; John Guare ; Charles Fuller ; Israel Horovitz ; Terrence McNally ; Jason Miller ; David Rabe ; Luis Valdez ; Charles Ludlam ; Sam Shepard - August Wilson and the new dramatists: post-World War II generation sure of themselves. August Wilson ; Miguel Pinero ; Albert Innaurato ; Marsha Norman ; David Mamet ; Ntozake Shange ; Christopher Durang ; Wendy Wasserstein ; Beth Henley ; Ted Talley ; George C. Wolfe ; Harvey Fierstein ; Tony Kushner ; David Henry Hwang ; Suzan-Lori Parks.
- Call Number
- JFD 02-17544
- ISBN
- 0815629397 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002002049
- OCLC
- 49011448
- Author
- Sternlicht, Sanford V.
- Title
- A reader's guide to modern American drama / Sanford Sternlicht.
- Imprint
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2002.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Series
- Reader's guides to literatureReader's guide series (Syracuse, N.Y.)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-242) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 02-17544