Visions of tragedy in modern American drama from O'Neill to the twenty-first century / edited by David Palmer ; foreword by Christopher Bigsby.
| Other author | Palmer, David (Philosophy Professor) |
| Other author | Bigsby, C. W. E. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London, UK : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018. |
| Description | xxii, 250 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) / Jeffery Kennedy -- Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) / Sharon Friedman -- Langston Hughes (1902-1967) / Jonathan Shandell -- Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) / Jackson R. Bryer -- Lillian Hellman (1905-1984) / Anne Fletcher -- Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) / Susan C.W. Abbotson -- Arthur Miller (1915-2005) / Stephen Marino -- Edward Albee (1928-2016) / Natka Bianchini -- Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) / Dierdre Osborne -- Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) / Harvey Young -- Adrienne Kennedy (1931- ) / Werner Sollors -- August Wilson (1945-2005) / Sandra G. Shannon -- Sam Shepard (1943-2017) / Shannon Blake Skelton -- David Mamet (1947- ) / Brenda Murphy -- Marsha Norman (1947- ) / David Palmer -- Tony Kushner (1956- ) / Claire Gleitman -- Suzan-Lori Parks (1963- ) / Soyica Diggs Colbert -- American theatre since 1990 / Toby Zinman. |
| Summary | This volume responds to a renewed focus on tragedy in theatre and literary studies to explore conceptions of tragedy in the dramatic work of seventeen canonical American playwrights. For students of American literature and theatre studies, the assembled essays offer a clear framework for exploring the work of many of the most studied and performed playwrights of the modern era. Following a contextual introduction that offers a survey of conceptions of tragedy, scholars examine the dramatic work of major playwrights in chronological succession, beginning with Eugene O'Neill and ending with Suzan-Lori Parks. A final chapter provides a study of American drama since 1990 and its ongoing engagement with concepts of tragedy. The chapters explore whether there is a distinctively American vision of tragedy developed in the major works of canonical American dramatists and how this may be seen to evolve over the course of the twentieth century through to the present day. Among the playwrights whose work is examined are: Susan Glaspell, Langston Hughes, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, August Wilson, Marsha Norman and Tony Kushner. With each chapter being short enough to be assigned for weekly classes in survey courses, the volume will help to facilitate critical engagement with the dramatic work and offer readers the tools to further their independent study of this enduring theme of dramatic literature -- Source other than Library of Congress. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019393007 |
| ISBN | 1474276938 |
| ISBN | 9781474276924 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781474276931 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ePDF) |
| ISBN | (eBook) |