| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 227 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Edinburgh critical guides to literature
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Edinburgh critical guides to literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-221) and index. |
| Summary |
This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts that experiment with form and content, discussing influential playwrights and performance artists such as Tennessee Williams, Adrienne Kennedy, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Charles Ludlum, Anna Deavere Smith, Karen Finley and Will Power, alongside avant-garde theatre groups. Saddik traces the development of contemporary drama since 1945, and discusses the cross-cultural impact of postwar British and Europ. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Contents |
COVER; CONTENTS; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; 1 Experimental Innovations After the Second World War; 2 Revisiting the American Dream; 3 African-American Theatre: Voices from the Margins; 4 Avant-Garde Theatre Groups: Revolutions in Performance; 5 Postmodern Presentations: Questioning Boundaries of Representation; 6 The Politics of Identity and Exclusion; 7 Fragmented Representations of American Identity in the Theatre of the Vietnam War; 8 The 'NEA Four' and Performance Art: Making Visible the Invisible; Conclusion; Student Resources; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American drama. |
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20th century |
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American drama -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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Theater -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Theater. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Theater -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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1900 - 2099 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Saddik, Annette J., 1966- Contemporary American drama. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2007 9780748624935 0748624937 (OCoLC)144596379 |
| ISBN |
9780748630660 (electronic book) |
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074863066X (electronic book) |
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9780748624942 (paperback) |
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0748624945 (paperback) |
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9780748624935 |
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0748624937 |
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