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This volume provides an accessible and engaging guide to the study of American dramatic literature. Designed to support students in reading, discussing, and writing about commonly assigned American plays, this text offers timely resources to think critically and originally about key moments on the American stage. Combining comprehensive coverage of the core plays from the post-Revolutionary era to the present, each chapter includes: historical and cultural context of each of the plays and their distinctive literary features clear introductions to the ongoing critical debates they have provoked collaborative prompts for classroom or online discussion annotated bibliographies for further research With its accessible prose style and clear structure, this introduction spotlights specific plays while encouraging students to contemplate timely questions of American identity across its selected span of US theatrical history.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: The Contrast (1787) by Royall Tyler Chapter 2: André (1798) by William Dunlap Chapter 3: The Indian Princess (1808) by James Nelson Barker Chapter 4: Fashion; Or, Life in New York (1845) by Anna Cora Mowatt Chapter 5: The Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana (1859) by Dion Boucicault Chapter 6: Margaret Fleming (1890) by James A. Herne Chapter 7: Trifles (1916) by Susan Glaspell Chapter 8: The Children’s Hour (1934) by Lillian Hellman Chapter 9: Our Town (1938) by Thornton Wilder Chapter 10: A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) by Tennessee Williams Chapter 11: Death of a Salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller Chapter 12: Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1956) by Eugene O’Neill Chapter 13: A Raisin in the Sun (1959) by Lorraine Hansberry Chapter 14: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) by Edward Albee Chapter 15: Funnyhouse of a Negro (1964) by Adrienne Kennedy Chapter 16: Fences (1985) by August Wilson Chapter 17: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (1993-94) by Tony Kushner Chapter 18: Sisters Matsumoto (1998) by Philip Kan Gotanda Chapter 19: Topdog/Underdog (2002) by Suzan-Lori Parks Chapter 20: Water by the Spoonful (2012) by Quiara Alegría Hudes Chapter 21: An Octoroon (2014) by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

About the Author :
Paul Thifault, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of English at Springfield College in Massachusetts, where he teaches courses on US drama, early American literature, and Native American literature. With Nancy Sweet, he edits Resources for American Literary Study, a long-running journal of archival and bibliographical scholarship on all periods of American literature.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780367696535
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 202
  • Weight: 303 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0367696533
  • Publisher Date: 29 Jun 2022
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Routledge Introductions to American Literature
  • Width: 152 mm


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