The Routledge Introduction to American Drama

The Routledge Introduction to American Drama
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : 9781000598698
ISBN-13 : 1000598691
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Book Synopsis The Routledge Introduction to American Drama by : Paul Thifault

Download or read book The Routledge Introduction to American Drama written by Paul Thifault and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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: historical and cultural context of each of the plays and their distinctive literary features clear introductions to the ongoing critical debates they have provoked collaborative prompts for classroom or online discussion 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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