American drama/critics
Subtitle: writings and readings
By: by Bert Cardullo.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Newcastle, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781847182517
Subjects: American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Dramatic criticism -- United States.; American drama -- Film and video adaptations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-248) and index.
Table of contents: title: Realism, Naturalism, Modern American drama and modern American dramatic criticism; title: Global futurism, Divine comedy, Greek tragedy ... and The hairy ape; title: The Front page, farce, and American comedy; title: On the road to tragedy: mice, land, and candy in Of mice and men; title: Whose town is it, and whither goes it?: an historico-aesthetic, comparative-influential inquiry into Our town; title: The unbearable light-ness of being: Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus lights the lights in the light of the twentieth century; title: The blue rose of St. Louis: Laura, Romanticism, and The glass menagerie; title: Death of a salesman, life of a Jew: ethnicity, business, and the character of Willy Loman; title: Sam Shepard and the "buried" domestic drama of Buried child; title: American drama/American film: the cases of Way down East, The little foxes, and Edmond; title: David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross, and selling in American drama; title: Theater chronicle: the real thing; title: Richard Gilman, American theater critic: an appreciation; title: On criticism: an exchange with Eric Bentley; title: Homage to Stark Young, 1881-1963; title: Theater (criticism) in America: an interview with Stanley Kauffmann; title: American dramaturgy: a re-appraisal; title: Performance art vs. Performed drama: experimental playwriting and production in the United States.