Publisher's Synopsis
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.
