The American Play: 1787-2000

by Marc Robinson

Book Overview

In this brilliant study, Marc Robinson explores more than two hundred years of plays, styles, and stagings of American theater. Mapping the changing cultural landscape from the late eighteenth century to the start of the twenty-first, he explores how theater has--and has not--changed and offers close readings of plays by O'Neill, Stein, Wilder, Miller, and Albee, as well as by important but perhaps lesser known dramatists such as Wallace Stevens,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300170041
• ISBN13: 9780300170047
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"