The American play : 1787-2000 / Marc Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Marc, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American drama--History and criticism.

American drama.

Theater--United States--History.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (415 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this brilliant study, Marc Robinson explores more than two hundred years of plays, styles, and stagings of American theater. Mapping the changing cultural landscape from the late eighteenth century to the start of the twenty-first, he explores how theater has-and has not-changed and offers close readings of plays by O'Neill, Stein, Wilder, Miller, and Albee, as well as by important but perhaps lesser known dramatists such as Wallace Stevens, Jean Toomer, Djuna Barnes, and many others. Robinson reads each work in an ambitiously interdisciplinary context, linking advances in theater to developments in American literature, dance, and visual art. The author is particularly attentive to the continuities in American drama, and expertly teases out recurring themes, such as the significance of visuality. He avoids neatly categorizing nineteenth- and twentieth-century plays and depicts a theater more restive and mercurial than has been recognized before. Robinson proves both a fascinating and thought-provoking critic and a spirited guide to the history of American drama.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Envisioning the Nineteenth Century

2. Staging the Civil War

3. Realism against Itself

4. The Borders of Modernism

5. Between the Acts

6. Changing Decorum

7. Returning to Neutral.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-390) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612352348

9786612088599

9780300156126

030015612X

9781282352346

1282352342

9781282088597

1282088599

OCLC:

379478106