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Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama (Hardcover, HPOD)
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Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama (Hardcover, HPOD)
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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 of
American literature and theatre studies, the assembled essays offer
a clear framework for exploring the work of many of the most
studied and performed playwrights of the modern era. Following a
contextual introduction that offers a survey of conceptions of
tragedy, scholars examine the dramatic work of major playwrights in
chronological succession, beginning with Eugene O'Neill and ending
with Suzan-Lori Parks. A final chapter provides a study of American
drama since 1990 and its ongoing engagement with concepts of
tragedy. The chapters explore whether there is a distinctively
American vision of tragedy developed in the major works of
canonical American dramatists and how this may be seen to evolve
over the course of the twentieth century through to the present
day. Among the playwrights whose work is examined are: Susan
Glaspell, Langston Hughes, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller,
Edward Albee, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, August Wilson,
Marsha Norman and Tony Kushner. With each chapter being short
enough to be assigned for weekly classes in survey courses, the
volume will help to facilitate critical engagement with the
dramatic work and offer readers the tools to further their
independent study of this enduring theme of dramatic literature.
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