American Drama 1945 - 2000: An Introduction by Krasner, David

American Drama 1945 - 2000: An Introduction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781405120869)

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American Drama 1945 - 2000: An Introduction by Krasner, David

American Drama 1945 - 2000: An Introduction

$122.95
American Drama 1945 - 2000: An Introduction by Krasner, David

American Drama 1945 - 2000: An Introduction

$122.95
Format: Hardcover
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This concise introduction to American drama gives readers an overview of how American drama developed from the end of the Second World War to the turn of the twenty-first century.
  • Provides a balanced assessment of the major plays and playwrights of the period.
  • Shows how these dramatists broke new ground in their contribution to political, economic, social and cultural debates, as well as in their dramaturgical strategies.
  • Organized chronologically, with plays, playwrights and movements clustered around different movements such as realism and experimentalism.
  • Gives readers a sense of the development of American drama over time.


Author: David Krasner
ISBN-10: 140512086X
ISBN-13: 9781405120869
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2006
Pages: 226
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.10w x 0.88d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2006 pg. 304
By David Krasner
By David Krasner
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David Krasner teaches theatre, drama, and performance at Yale University. He is the author of Resistance, Parody and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre 1895-1910 (1997), and A Beautiful Pageant: African American Theatre, Drama and Performance in the Harlem Renaissance (2002). He is also the editor of A Companion to Twentieth-century American Drama (Blackwell, 2004), co-editor of Staging Philosophy: New Approaches to Theatre and Drama (2006), and co-editor (with Rebecca Schneider) of the University of Michigan Press's series Theatre: Theory/Text/Performance.

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