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This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts that experiment with form and content, discussing influential playwrights and performance artists such as Tennessee Williams, Adrienne Kennedy, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Charles Ludlum, Anna Deavere Smith, Karen Finley and Will Power, alongside avant-garde theatre groups. Saddik traces the development of contemporary drama since 1945, and discusses the cross-cultural impact of postwar British and European innovations on American theatre from the 1950s to the present day in order to examine the performance of American identity. She argues that contemporary American theatre is primarily a postmodern drama of inclusion and diversity that destabilizes the notion of fixed identity and questions the nature of reality.


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  • Author : Annette Saddik
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Total Pages : 248 pages
  • ISBN : 074863066X
  • PDF File Size : 9,8 Mb
  • Language : English
  • Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews

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Contemporary American Drama

Contemporary American Drama
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • File Size : 29,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 13 September 2007
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This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts that experiment with

Staging Masculinity

Staging Masculinity
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • File Size : 30,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 05 July 2006
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The men in plays such as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman or Sam Shephard's True West are often presented as universal; little attention is given to the gender dynamics

American Drama

American Drama
  • Publisher : Heinle & Heinle Publishers
  • File Size : 55,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 02 June 1995
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American Drama: Colonial to Contemporary is intended for students of American Drama in English, Theatre, and American Studies courses. Its primary aim is to provide students with a broad historical

Modern American Drama, 1945-2000

Modern American Drama, 1945-2000
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • File Size : 29,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 21 December 2000
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New edition of Modern American Drama completes the survey and comes up to 2000.

Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama

Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • File Size : 29,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 08 February 2018
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This volume responds to a renewed focus on tragedy in theatre and literary studies to explore conceptions of tragedy in the dramatic work of seventeen canonical American playwrights. For students

Contemporary American Playwrights

Contemporary American Playwrights
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • File Size : 33,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 02 June 1999
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A leading writer on American theatre explores the works and influences of ten contemporary American playwrights.

The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights

The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • File Size : 40,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 19 December 2013
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Unrivalled in its coverage of recent work and writers, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights surveys and analyses the breadth, vitality and development of theatrical work to emerge

The Presence of the Past in Modern American Drama

The Presence of the Past in Modern American Drama
  • Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
  • File Size : 34,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 02 June 1989
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This study focuses on Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams, who, within the overall framework of formal realism, reshaped dramatic form to depict a past that interacts