03341nam 2200697 a 450 991045516740332120200520144314.00-300-15612-X1-282-35234-297866123523481-282-08859-9978661208859910.12987/9780300156126(CKB)1000000000764780(OCoLC)379478106(CaPaEBR)ebrary10348469(SSID)ssj0000102314(PQKBManifestationID)11133144(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102314(PQKBWorkID)10050400(PQKB)11411839(MiAaPQ)EBC3420572(DE-B1597)486210(DE-B1597)9780300156126(MiAaPQ)EBC5122084(Au-PeEL)EBL3420572(CaPaEBR)ebr10348469(CaONFJC)MIL208859(OCoLC)923594587(Au-PeEL)EBL5122084(CaONFJC)MIL235234(OCoLC)994514786(EXLCZ)99100000000076478020080929d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe American play[electronic resource] 1787-2000 /Marc RobinsonNew Haven Yale University Pressc20091 online resource (415 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-11649-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-390) and index.Introduction -- 1. Envisioning the Nineteenth Century -- 2. Staging the Civil War -- 3. Realism against Itself -- 4. The Borders of Modernism -- 5. Between the Acts -- 6. Changing Decorum -- 7. Returning to Neutral.In this brilliant study, Marc Robinson explores more than two hundred years of plays, styles, and stagings of American theater. Mapping the changing cultural landscape from the late eighteenth century to the start of the twenty-first, he explores how theater has-and has not-changed and offers close readings of plays by O'Neill, Stein, Wilder, Miller, and Albee, as well as by important but perhaps lesser known dramatists such as Wallace Stevens, Jean Toomer, Djuna Barnes, and many others. Robinson reads each work in an ambitiously interdisciplinary context, linking advances in theater to developments in American literature, dance, and visual art. The author is particularly attentive to the continuities in American drama, and expertly teases out recurring themes, such as the significance of visuality. He avoids neatly categorizing nineteenth- and twentieth-century plays and depicts a theater more restive and mercurial than has been recognized before. Robinson proves both a fascinating and thought-provoking critic and a spirited guide to the history of American drama.American dramaHistory and criticismTheaterUnited StatesHistoryElectronic books.American dramaHistory and criticism.TheaterHistory.812/.009Robinson Marc1962-1056208MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455167403321The American play2490384UNINA