Coming home : the soldier's return in twentieth-century American drama

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Coming home : the soldier's return in twentieth-century American drama

Michael L. Counts

(American university studies, Series IV . English language and literature ; vol. 63)

P. Lang, c1988

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Twentieth-century American homecomer play

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--City University of New York, 1983. Originally presented under title: The twentieth-century American homecomer play

Bibliography: p. [215]-224

Includes index

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Description

The book examines fifty-five American plays written and produced during the twentieth century which depict the return of the soldier. The plays are analyzed for common themes which identify a genre of play, the homecomer play. Included is a select history of the homecomer play dating from Classical Greece to the twentieth century. The book sheds new light on some important American plays and playwrights. Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, for example, is seen in a new way by being examined as a homecomer play. The historical and sociological impact of both plays and productions is also examined.

Table of Contents

Contents: Twentieth-century American plays depicting the return of the soldier. Included is a selective history of the homecomer play and background on the wars which produced them. There are no other books on the American homecomer play.

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