Product Description: This book refutes the claim that tragedy is no longer a vital and relevant part of contemporary American theatre. Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre examines plays by multiple contemporary playwrights and compares them alongside the works of America’s major twentieth-century tragedians: Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams...read more

Product Description: Women are at the center of American theatre and have the potential to shape the cultural imagination of theatre-goers as a complex new era unfolds. Sarah Ruhl, one of the twenty-first century's most honored playwrights, is read in concert with her contemporaries whose writing also wrestles with the vexing issues facing Americans in the new century...read more

Product Description: Traces the historical dimensions of Native North American drama using a critical perspective.Responding to an increasing need for critical perspectives and methodologies, this collection traces the historical dimensions of Native North American drama through overviews of major developments, individual playwrights’ perspectives, and in-depth critical analyses...read more

Product Description: The dramatic trilogy has been flourishing for some time now in new works and revivals of older works by American, British, and European playwrights. This book analyzes recent American works by Caucasian, African American, Asian American, and Hispanic American men and women...read more

Product Description: The theatre has always been the site of visionary hopes for a reformed national future and a space for propagating ideas, both cultural and political. The essays in this volume address the concepts of 'Americanness' and the perceptions of the 'alien' - as dealt with in the work of Anna Cora Mowatt to Nilo Cruz...read more