Modern American Drama - (Decades of Modern American Drama: Playwriting from the 1930s to 2009) by Anne Fletcher (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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, while 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documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material" -- Page [4] of cover.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The <i>Decades of Modern American Drama</i> 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documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material.<br/><br/>The major playwrights and their works to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: <br/>* Clifford Odets: <i>Waiting for Lefty</i> (1935), <i>Awake and Sing!</i> (1935) and <i>Golden Boy</i> (1937);<br/>* Lillian Hellman: <i>The Children's Hour</i> (1934), <i>The Little Foxes</i> (1939), and <i>Days to Come</i> (1936);<br/>* Langston Hughes: <i>Mulatto</i> (1935), <i>Mule Bone</i> (1930, with Zora Neale Hurston) and <i>Little Ham</i> (1936);<br/>* Gertrude Stein: <i>Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights</i> (1938), <i>Four Saints in Three Acts</i> (written in 1927, published in 1932) and <i>Listen to Me</i> (1936)<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Anne Fletcher</b> is Professor of Theater at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA. She is the author of <i>Rediscovering Mordecai Gorelik: Scene Design and the American Theatre</i> (2009) and co-author (with Scott R. Irelan and Julie Felise Dubiner) of The <i>Process of Dramatury: A Handbook</i> (2010).
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