Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition 0817308377, 9780817389208, 0817389202

Any review of 20th-century American theatre invariably leads to the term realism. Yet despite the strong tradition of th

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Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition
0817308377, 9780817389208, 0817389202

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Table of contents :
Preface: American Dramatic Realisms, Viable Frames of Thought / William W. Demastes
1. Introduction: The Struggle for the Real-Interpretive Conflict, Dramatic Method, and the Paradox of Realism / Brian Richardson
2. The Legacy of James A. Herne: American Realities and Realisms / Patricia D. Denison
3. Whose Realism? Rachel Crothers's Power ""Struggle in the American Theatre / Yvonne Shafer
4. The Provincetown Players' Experiments with Realism / J. Ellen Gainor
5. Servant of Three Masters: Realism, Idealism, and "Hokum" in American High Comedy / Robert F. Gross. 6. Remembering the Disremembered: Feminist Realists of the Harlem Renaissance / Patricia R. Schroeder7. Eugene O'Neill and Reality in America / Frank R. Cunningham
8. "Odets, Where Is Thy Sting?" Reassessing the "Playwright of the Proletariat" / John W. Frick
9. Thornton Wilder, the Real, and Theatrical Realism / Christopher J. Wheatley
10. Into the Foxhole: Feminism, Realism, and Lillian Hellman / Judith E. Barlow
11. Tennessee Williams's "Personal Lyricism": Toward an Androgynous Form / Thomas P. Adler
12. Arthur Miller: Revisioning Realism / Brenda Murphy. 13. Margins in the Mainstream: Contemporary Women Playwrights / Janet V. Haedicke14. The Limits of African-American Political Realism: Baraka's Dutchman and Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom / Eric Bergesen and William W. Demastes
15. Anti-Theatricality and American Ideology: Mamet's Performative Realism / Michael L. Quinn
16. The Hurlyburly Lies of the Causalist Mind: Chaos and the Realism of Rabe and Shepard / William W. Demastes and Michael Vanden Heuvel
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index.

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