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The history of Southern drama / Charles S. Watson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watson, Charles S., 1931- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American drama--Southern States--History and criticism.
- American drama.
- Southern States--Intellectual life.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--In literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Edition:
- Paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Mention southern drama at a cocktail party or in an American literature survey, and you may hear cries for ""Stella!"" or laments for ""gentleman callers."" Yet southern drama depends on much more than a menagerie of highly strung spinsters and steel magnolias.Charles Watson explores this field from its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century roots through the southern Literary Renaissance and Tennessee Williams's triumphs to the plays of Horton Foote, winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize. Such well known modern figures as Lillian Hellman and DuBose Heyward earn fresh looks, as does Tennessee Williams
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Prologue: Definitions and Preliminaries; 1 Nationalism and Native Culture in Virginia; 2 Prolific Playwriting in Charleston; 3 The Dramatist as Humorist in New Orleans; 4 Drama Goes to War; 5 The Modern Drama of Espy Williams; 6 The Leadership of Paul Green; 7 DuBose Heyward's Transmutation of Black Culture; 8 The Southern Marxism of Lillian Hellman; 9 Black Drama: Politics or Culture; Illustrations; 10 Randolph Edmonds and Civil Rights; 11 The Cultural Imagination of Tennessee Williams; 12 Past and Present Cultures in Recent Drama
- Epilogue: Politics, Culture, and the Rise of Southern DramaNotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813193076
- 0813193079
- 9780813188898
- 081318889X
- 9780813149998
- 0813149991
- 9780813170237
- 0813170230
- OCLC:
- 47011330
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