Modern American drama: essays in criticism / edited by William E. Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, William E., 1920-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American drama--20th century--History and criticism.

American drama.

Physical Description:

200 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

DeLand, Fla. : Everett/Edwards, [1968]

Contents:

Eugene O'Neill: the long quest, by J.L. Halio. - Six characters in search of an author and Desire under the elms: what O'Neill did not learn from Europe, by W.E. Taylor. - Clifford Odets: from influence to affluence, by R.B. Shuman. - Maxwell Anderson: traditionalist in a theatre of change, by W.E. Taylor. - Comedy of manners 1927-1939, by W. Embler. - Through a glass menagerie darkly: the world of Tennessee Williams, by S. Kahn. - Arthur Miller: Aristotelian canons in the twentieth century drama, by A.A. Stambusky. - Three verse playwrights and the American fifties, by D. Gerstenberger. - What happens in Who's afraid...? By M. Halperen. - The novelist as playwright: Baldwin, McCullers, and Bellow, by L. Phillips. - Off-Broadway and the new realism, by B.F. Dukore.

Notes:

"Bibliographical notes": pages 175-186.

OCLC:

1175677