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Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1930s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations

Hardback

Main Details

Title Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1930s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Professor Anne Fletcher
Series edited by Brenda Murphy
Series edited by Professor Julia Listengarten
SeriesDecades of Modern American Drama: Playwriting from the 1930s to 2009
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:336
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreDrama
Literary studies - plays and playwrights
ISBN/Barcode 9781472571878
ClassificationsDewey:812.5209
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publication Date 22 August 2019
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major playwrights and their works to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * Clifford Odets: Waiting for Lefty (1935), Awake and Sing! (1935) and Golden Boy (1937); * Lillian Hellman: The Children's Hour (1934), The Little Foxes (1939), and Days to Come (1936); * Langston Hughes: Mulatto (1935), Mule Bone (1930, with Zora Neale Hurston) and Little Ham (1936); * Gertrude Stein: Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938), Four Saints in Three Acts (written in 1927, published in 1932) and Listen to Me (1936).

Author Biography

Anne Fletcher is Professor of Theater at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA. She is the author of Rediscovering Mordecai Gorelik: Scene Design and the American Theatre (2009) and co-author (with Scott R. Irelan and Julie Felise Dubiner) of The Process of Dramatury: A Handbook (2010).

Reviews

A fine overview of American theatre during the decade. * British Theatre Guide *