The Routledge introduction to American drama / Paul Thifault.
"This volume provides an accessible and engaging guide to American drama. 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. Combin...
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| Other title: | Introduction to American drama. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2022.
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| Series: | Routledge introductions to American literature.
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| Summary: | "This volume provides an accessible and engaging guide to American drama. 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: historical and cultural context of each play and their distinctive literary features clear introductions to the ongoing critical debates they have provoked classroom-tested discussion questions for further student dialogue collaborative prompts for online discussion boards annotated bibliographies for further research 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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 201 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781000598698 1000598691 9781000598650 1000598659 9781003142713 1003142710 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 30, 2022) |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Paul Thifault, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of English at Springfield College in Massachusetts, where he teaches courses on US drama, early American literature, and Native American literature. With Nancy Sweet, he edits Resources for American Literary Study, a long-running journal of archival and bibliographical scholarship on all periods of American literature. |