American drama from the Colonial period through World War I : a critical history /
Though previously ignored as the nation's literary stepchild, the country's early drama emerges in American Drama from the Colonial Period through World War I as a dynamic cultural institution in which the social, political, economic, and artistic issues of the moment found representation...
| Основен автор: | Richardson, Gary A., 1949- |
|---|---|
| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York : Toronto : New York :
Twayne Publishers ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International,
c1993.
|
| Серия: |
Twayne's critical history of American drama
|
| Предмети: |
Съдържание:
- 1. Colonial Drama. Colonial Attitudes and the Beginnings of Theater in America. The College Exercises and Dialogues. Colonial Comedy. Colonial Tragedy
- 2. Drama and the American Revolution. Whig and Tory Dialogues. Patriot Attacks. Tory Defense and Patriot Demur
- 3. Initial Experiments in the New Republic. Royal Tyler and Nationalistic Comedy. William Dunlap: The Professional Dramatist in the New Republic. James Nelson Barker: Republican Tragedy and Nationalistic Art
- 4. Tragedy and the Drama of High Culture. John Howard Payne and the Emergence of Romantic Drama. Robert Montgomery Bird: Romantic Drama in the Age of Jackson. George Henry Boker: Romantic Tragedy's Quintessence
- 5. The Popular Drama Before the Civil War. The Myth of the Frontier: The Noble Savages of Stone and Paulding. The Heirs of Jonathan: The Stage Yankee. High Society: Mowatt's "Fashion" The Slavery Plays of Aiken and Boucicault: Melodrama and Social Commentary
- 6. The World of Melodrama.
- Fables of Melodramatic Intensity: Augustin Daly's New America. The Master Melodramatist: Dion Boucicault at Home and Abroad. Melodrama as National History. Westward Ho! Manifest Destiny on the Melodramatic Stage. Melodramatic Postscript: Eugene Walter's "The Easiest Way"
- 7. The Development of Realism. Late-Nineteenth-Century Realist Dramatic Theory. William Dean Howells: Radical in the Drawing Room. Steele MacKaye and Bronson Howard: Realism of Character. William Gillette: Presentational Realism and a New Hero. James A. Herne: American Realism Comes of Age
- 8. The Age of Progressive Innocence, 1900-1916. "Bright Lights, Big City": The Urban Whirl of Mitchell and Fitch. Progressivism on the Stage: Edward Sheldon's Social Plays. Neo-Romanticism and the New Individualism: Thomas, MacKaye, and Moody. Engendered Stage: Crothers, Glaspell, and the "New Woman" Question.