The Routledge introduction to American drama
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The Routledge introduction to American drama
（Routledge introductions to American literature）
Routledge, 2022
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This volume provides an accessible and engaging guide to the study of American dramatic literature. Designed to support students in reading, discussing, and writing about commonly assigned American plays, this text offers timely resources to think critically and originally about key moments on the American stage.
Combining comprehensive coverage of the core plays from the post-Revolutionary era to the present, each chapter includes:
historical and cultural context of each of the plays and their distinctive literary features
clear introductions to the ongoing critical debates they have provoked
collaborative prompts for classroom or online discussion
annotated bibliographies for further research
With its accessible prose style and clear structure, this introduction spotlights specific plays while encouraging students to contemplate timely questions of American identity across its selected span of US theatrical history.
目次
- Chapter 1: The Contrast (1787) by Royall Tyler Chapter 2: Andre (1798) by William Dunlap Chapter 3: The Indian Princess (1808) by James Nelson Barker Chapter 4: Fashion
- Or, Life in New York (1845) by Anna Cora Mowatt Chapter 5: The Octoroon
- or, Life in Louisiana (1859) by Dion Boucicault Chapter 6: Margaret Fleming (1890) by James A. Herne Chapter 7: Trifles (1916) by Susan Glaspell Chapter 8: The Children's Hour (1934) by Lillian Hellman Chapter 9: Our Town (1938) by Thornton Wilder Chapter 10: A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) by Tennessee Williams Chapter 11: Death of a Salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller Chapter 12: Long Day's Journey Into Night (1956) by Eugene O'Neill Chapter 13: A Raisin in the Sun (1959) by Lorraine Hansberry Chapter 14: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) by Edward Albee Chapter 15: Funnyhouse of a Negro (1964) by Adrienne Kennedy Chapter 16: Fences (1985) by August Wilson Chapter 17: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (1993-94) by Tony Kushner Chapter 18: Sisters Matsumoto (1998) by Philip Kan Gotanda Chapter 19: Topdog/Underdog (2002) by Suzan-Lori Parks Chapter 20: Water by the Spoonful (2012) by Quiara Alegria Hudes Chapter 21: An Octoroon (2014) by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
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