Title: Feminist rereadings of modern American drama /
Authors: Schlueter, June.
Date: 1989
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
Physical description: 249 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: P
Abstract: "New perspectives on the work of five prominent male playwrights in the modern American canon."--Jacket.
Contents: Part 1: Eugene O'Neill: -- "A monster of perfection" : O'Neill's "Stella" / Anne Flèche -- O'Neill's ghostly women / Suzanne Burr -- Theatricality and otherness in All God's chillum got wings / Bette Mandl -- Part 2: Arthur Miller: -- The exchange of women and male homosocial desire in Arthur Miller's Death of a saleman and Lillian Hellman's Another part of the forest / Gayle Austin -- Women and the American dream of Death of a salesman / Kay Stanton -- Paper dolls : melodrama and sexual politics in Arthur Miller's early plays / Jeffrey D. Mason -- Betrayal and blessedness : explorations of feminine power in The Crucible, A View from the bridge, and After the fall / Iska Alter -- Part 3: Tennessee Williams: -- Authorizing history : victimization in A Streetcar named desire / Anca Vlasopolos -- "Weak and divided people" : Tennessee Williams and the written woman / John Timpane -- Part 4: Edward Albee: -- What's new at the Zoo? : Rereading Edward Albee's American dream(s) and nightmares / Mickey Pearlman -- Magnified and sanctified : Tiny Alice reconsidered / Naomi Conn Liebler -- Part 5: Sam Shepard : -- Sam Shepard's spectacle of impossible heterosexuality: Fool for love / Lynda Hart -- Self as other : Sam Shepard's Fool for love and A Lie of the mind / Rosemarie Bank.
Subject headings (LCSH): American drama--20th century--History and criticism.; Feminism and literature--United States.; Feminist drama--History and criticism.