Includes bibliographical references and index Electronic reproduction; Mode of access: World Wide Web David Krasner: Introduction:The changing perceptions of American drama Mark Evans Bryan: American drama, 1900-1915 Rachel Shteir: Ethnic theatre in America J. Ellen Gainor,: Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell: staging feminism and modernism, 1915-1941 Deanna M. Toten Beard: American experimentalism, American expressionism, and early O'Neill Felicia Hardison Londré: Many-faceted mirror: drama as reflection of uneasy modernity in the 1920s Annemarie Bean: Playwrights and plays of the Harlem Renaissance Anne Fletcher: Reading across the 1930s Sarah Bay-Cheng: Famous unknowns: the dramas of Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein David Krasner: Eugene O'Neill: American drama and American modernism Thomas P. Adler: Fissures beneath the surface: drama in the 1940s and 1950s Brenda A. Murphy: Tennessee Williams Peter Civetta: Expressing and exploring faith: religious drama in America Murray Biggs: The American Jewishness of Arthur Miller Christopher Olsen: Drama of the 1960s Steven Price: Fifteen-love, thirty-love: Edward Albee Mike Sell: The drama of the Black Arts Movement Leslie A. Wade: Sam Shepard and the American sunset: enchantment of the mythic West Daphne Lei: Staging the binary: Asian American theatre in the late twentieth century Harry J. Elam, Jr.: August Wilson Ann Haugo: Native American drama Gene A. Plunka: John Guare and the popular culture hype of celebrity status Tiffany Ana Lopez: Writing beyond borders: a survey of US Latina/o drama Linda Rohrer Paige: "Off the porch and into the scene": southern women playwrights Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, Rebecca Gilman, and Jane Martin Janet V. Haedicke: David Mamet: America on the American stage Mark Fearnow: 1970-1990: disillusionment, identity, and discovery Andrew Sofer: Maria Irene Fornes: acts of translation Julia Listengarten: From eccentricity to endurance: Jewish comedy and the art of affirmation Ann Pellegrini: Repercussions and remainders in the plays of Paula Vogel: an essay in five moments Jill Dolan: Lesbian and gay drama June Schleuter: American drama of the 1990s on tand off-broadway Stephen J. Bottoms: Solo performance drama: the self as other? Ehren Fordyce.: Experimental drama at the end of the century |
