Paul Thifault

The Routledge Introduction to American Drama (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000598650
• Artikelnr.: 63958641

Autorenporträt

Paul Thifault, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of English at Springfield College in Massachusetts, where he teaches courses on US drama, early American literature, and Native American literature. With Nancy Sweet, he edits Resources for American Literary Study, a long-running journal of archival and bibliographical scholarship on all periods of American literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Contrast (1787) by Royall Tyler
Chapter 2: André (1798) by William Dunlap
Chapter 3: The Indian Princess (1808) by James Nelson Barker
Chapter 4: Fashion; Or, Life in New York (1845) by Anna Cora Mowatt
Chapter 5: The Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana (1859) by Dion Boucicault
Chapter 6: Margaret Fleming (1890) by James A. Herne
Chapter 7: Trifles (1916) by Susan Glaspell
Chapter 8: The Children's Hour (1934) by Lillian Hellman
Chapter 9: Our Town (1938) by Thornton Wilder
Chapter 10: A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) by Tennessee Williams
Chapter 11: Death of a Salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller
Chapter 12: Long Day's Journey Into Night (1956) by Eugene O'Neill
Chapter 13: A Raisin in the Sun (1959) by Lorraine Hansberry
Chapter 14: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) by Edward Albee
Chapter 15: Funnyhouse of a Negro (1964) by Adrienne Kennedy
Chapter 16: Fences (1985) by August Wilson
Chapter 17: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (1993-94)
by Tony
Kushner
Chapter 18: Sisters Matsumoto (1998) by Philip Kan Gotanda
Chapter 19: Topdog/Underdog (2002) by Suzan-Lori Parks
Chapter 20: Water by the Spoonful (2012) by Quiara Alegría Hudes
Chapter 21: An Octoroon (2014) by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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Chapter 1: The Contrast (1787) by Royall Tyler

Chapter 2: André (1798) by William Dunlap

Chapter 3: The Indian Princess (1808) by James Nelson Barker

Chapter 4: Fashion; Or, Life in New York (1845) by Anna Cora Mowatt

Chapter 5: The Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana (1859) by Dion Boucicault

Chapter 6: Margaret Fleming (1890) by James A. Herne

Chapter 7: Trifles (1916) by Susan Glaspell

Chapter 8: The Children's Hour (1934) by Lillian Hellman

Chapter 9: Our Town (1938) by Thornton Wilder

Chapter 10: A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) by Tennessee Williams

Chapter 11: Death of a Salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller

Chapter 12: Long Day's Journey Into Night (1956) by Eugene O'Neill

Chapter 13: A Raisin in the Sun (1959) by Lorraine Hansberry

Chapter 14: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) by Edward Albee

Chapter 15: Funnyhouse of a Negro (1964) by Adrienne Kennedy

Chapter 16: Fences (1985) by August Wilson

Chapter 17: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (1993-94) by Tony

Kushner

Chapter 18: Sisters Matsumoto (1998) by Philip Kan Gotanda

Chapter 19: Topdog/Underdog (2002) by Suzan-Lori Parks

Chapter 20: Water by the Spoonful (2012) by Quiara Alegría Hudes

Chapter 21: An Octoroon (2014) by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins