Masterpieces of 20th-Century American Drama

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

Av Susan C. W. Abbotson, USA) Abbotson, Susan C. W. (Rhode Island College, Susan Abbotson

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American playwrights have made enormous contributions to world drama during the last century, and their works are widely read and performed. This reference conveniently introduces 10 of the most important modern American plays read by students. An introductory essay concisely overviews modern American drama, and each of the chapters that follow examines a particular play. Among the plays discussed are Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, and August Wilson's The Piano Lesson. Each chapter includes a biography, a plot summary, an analysis of the play's themes, characters, and dramatic art, and a review of its historical background and reception. Chapters list works for further reading, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.

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Utgivningsdatum2005-09-30
Mått156 x 235 x 22 mm
Vikt510 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGreenwood Introduces Literary Masterpieces
Antal sidor240
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780313332234

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Introduction to 20TH-Century American DramaThornton Wilder's Our Town (1938)Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (1949)Arthur Miller's The Crucible (1953)Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night (1956)Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (1959)Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962)Sam Shepard's Buried Child (1978)David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross (1984)August Wilson's The Piano Lesson (1987)General BibliographyIndex

After a succinct overview, Abbotson presents 10 masterpieces by some of America's best-known playwrights, paying some small tribute to gender and ethnicity. From Thorton Wilder's Our Town to August Wilson's The Piano Lesson, each play is introduced with a short biography of the playwright and is followed by several pages of information on each: plot summary, character development, themes, historical background, literary style and devices, place of the work in the playwrights' oeuvre and 20th-century drama, critical reception, and suggested readings….[c]lear and concise analyses of these plays for libraries still needing such a reference source.