The Routledge introduction to American drama / Paul Thifault.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thifault, Paul, author.

Series:

Routledge Introductions to American Literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American drama--History and criticism.

American drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Routledge, [2022]

Summary:

"This volume provides an accessible and engaging guide to American drama. 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 play and their distinctive literary features clear introductions to the ongoing critical debates they have provoked classroom-tested discussion questions for further student dialogue collaborative prompts for online discussion boards 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The contrast (1787) by Royall Tyler

André (1798) by William Dunlap

The Indian Princess (1808) by James Nelson Barker

Fashion; or, life in New York (1845) by Anna Cora Mowatt

The octoroon; or, life in Louisiana (1859) by Dion Boucicault

Margaret Fleming (1890) by James A. Herne

Trifles (1916) by Susan Glaspell

The children's hour (1934) by Lillian Hellman

Our Town (1938) by Thornton Wilder

A streetcar named desire (1947) by Tennessee Williams

Death of a salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller

Long day's journey into night (1956) by Eugene O'Neill

A raisin in the sun (1959) by Lorraine Hansberry

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) by Edward Albee

Funnyhouse of a negro (1964) by Adrienne Kennedy

Fences (1985) by August Wilson

Angels in America : a gay fantasia on national themes (1993-94) by Tony Kushner

Sisters Matsumoto (1998) by Philip Kan Gotanda

Topdog/underdog (2002) by Suzan-Lori Parks

Water by the spoonful (2012) by Quiara Alegría Hudes

An octoroon (2014) by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-000-59869-1

1-00-314271-0

1-003-14271-0

1-000-59865-9

9781003142713

OCLC:

1311591914

Publisher Number:

17784402