The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights
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The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights
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This authoritative guide leads you through the work of 25 major contemporary American playwrights, discussing more than 140 plays in detail. Written by a team of 25 eminent international scholars, each chapter provides:
· a biographical introduction to the playwright’s work;
· a survey and concise analysis of the writer's most important plays;
· a discussion of their style, dramaturgical concerns and critical reception;
· a bibliography of published plays and a select list of critical works.
Among the many Tony, Obie and Pulitzer prize-winning playwrights included are Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Suzan-Lori Parks, August Wilson, Paula Vogel and Neil LaBute. The abundance of work analysed enables fresh, illuminating conclusions to be drawn about the development of contemporary American playwriting.
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Critic reviews
An extensive survey of twenty-five prominent American playwrights whose careers span the last fifty years ... Readers might employ this guide as an introduction to a playwright’s career and oeuvre, as supplemental reading to one of the playwright’s plays, or as a starting point for further research…. This guide provides useful and productive analysis of the playwrights. (Amy Guenther)
This volume is a very comprehensive anthology [and] ... the editors are impressive scholars in their own right ... It is highly recommended for inclusion in college and university libraries, as a supplementary reading source for courses and for anyone interested in an introduction to twentieth-century American playwrights and their plays. (Sharon Marie Britton, Director, Mildred F. Sawyer Library, Suffolk University, USA)
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