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The Oxford Handbook of American Drama (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of American Drama (Hardcover)
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This ambitious collection of essays covers American drama in its
entirety-from its inception in colonial America, through its many
incarnations in the nineteenth century, to its zenith in the
twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Differentiating itself
from other treatments of the genre, the handbook will not only
highlight the major works of the twentieth century, but will also
attend carefully to earlier works and contexts. The collection's
first part will explore the genre's eighteenth-century genesis.
William Dunlap's complex, sympathetic portrait of British forces in
Andre is counterbalanced by the biting anti-colonial political
satire of the nation's first female playwright, Mercy Otis Warren,
through an appraisal of her witty, subversive skewering of British
loyalists in The Group. The nineteenth century saw the form
diversifying with offerings like the antebellum era's reform plays,
the melodrama, and the musical-a flowering that was given a new
center of action in the growth of Broadway. A full survey of the
vexing tradition of minstrelsy and the struggles of Black Americans
on the stage provides a transition into the twentieth century. The
new approaches to playwriting and performance pioneered by Eugene
O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, and the Provincetown Players gave theater
a new cachet early in the century through the possibilities offered
by naturalism and expressionism. Overtly political content took the
stage in the protest plays of Clifford Odets during the Great
Depression though in general a more insular realism proved the
dominant style, albeit one interrupted by recurring periods of
experimentalism. Key moments and artists who defined the later half
of the twentieth-century are illuminated through in-depth essays on
the scathing indictments of the American dream put forward by
Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and Edward Albee; the impact of
the countercultural, mixed-race musical Hair; the complex nature of
David Mamet's social critique; the energy of experimental,
off-Broadway theater; the importance of place and memory in August
Wilson's works; and the acute anxiety over the AIDS crisis during
the Regan eighties as presented in Angels in America. The volume
will conclude with a consideration of what lies ahead for the
nation's drama, focusing on the pivotal work of leading lights such
as Sarah Ruhl and Suzan Lori-Parks.
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