American playwrights on drama.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Series: A Dramabook
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 1965
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Drama -- History and criticism.
Description: Twenty-two critical essays on the contemporary state of the drama in the U.S.
Table of contents: title: Strindberg and our theatre / Eugene O'Neill -- Working notes and extracts from a fragmentary work diary / Eugene O'Neill -- Poetry in the theatre / Maxwell Anderson -- The social framework / John Howard Lawson -- Nobel Prize address / Eugene O'Neill -- The essence of tragedy / Maxwell Anderson -- Some thoughts on playwriting / Thornton Wilder -- On a streetcar named success / Tennessee Williams -- Symphonic drama  / Paul Green -- Tragedy and the common man / Arthur Miller -- The timeless world of a play / Tennessee Williams -- The schizophrenic wonder / William Inge -- The tower beyond tragedy / Robinson Jeffers -- What makes comedy high? / S.N. Behrman -- The poet as playwright / Archibald MacLeish -- American theatre and the human spirit / Elmer Rice -- A platform and a passion or two / Thornton Wilder -- The taste of success / William Inge -- The shadows of the gods / Arthur Miller -- About a trespass on a monument / Archibald MacLeish -- The Negro in the American theatre / Lorraine Hansberry -- Which theatre is the absurd one? / Edward Albee.