A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama [Hardcover]

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• Balances consideration of canonical material with discussion of works by previously marginalized playwrights
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• Includes studies of leading dramatists, such as Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill and Gertrude Stein
  
• Allows readers to make new links between particular plays and playwrights
  
• Examines the movements that framed the century, such as the Harlem Renaissance, lesbian and gay drama, and the solo performances of the 1980s and 1990s
  
• Situates American drama within larger discussions about American ideas and culture

List of Illustrations x

Notes on Contributors xii

Foreword by Molly Smith xvii

Acknowledgments xix

1. Introduction: The Changing Perceptions of American Drama 1
David Krasner

2. American Drama, 1900–1915 3
Mark Evans Bryan

3. Ethnic Theatre in America 18
Rachel Shteir

4. Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell: Staging Feminism and Modernism, 1915–1941 34
J. Ellen Gainor and Jerry Dickey

5. American Experimentalism, American Expressionism, and Early O’Neill 53
Deanna M. Toten Beard

6. Many-Faceted Mirror: Drama as Reflection of Uneasy Modernity in the 1920s 69
Felicia Hardison Londré&llã4