This volume provides an accessible and engaging guide to the study of American dramatic literature. Designed to support students in reading, discussing, and writing about commonly assigned American plays, this text offers timely resources to think critically and originally about key moments on the American stage.
Combining comprehensive coverage of the core plays from the post-Revolutionary era to the present, each chapter includes:
With its accessible prose style and clear structure, this introduction spotlights specific plays while encouraging students to contemplate timely questions of American identity across its selected span of US theatrical history.
| ISBN: | 9780367696535 |
| Publication date: | 29th June 2022 |
| Author: | Paul Thifault |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 202 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Introductions to American Literature |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: plays and playwrights Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary theory Literary studies: general |