LEADER 03341nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910455167403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-300-15612-X 010 $a1-282-35234-2 010 $a9786612352348 010 $a1-282-08859-9 010 $a9786612088599 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300156126 035 $a(CKB)1000000000764780 035 $a(OCoLC)379478106 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10348469 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000102314 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11133144 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102314 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10050400 035 $a(PQKB)11411839 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420572 035 $a(DE-B1597)486210 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300156126 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5122084 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420572 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10348469 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208859 035 $a(OCoLC)923594587 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5122084 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235234 035 $a(OCoLC)994514786 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000764780 100 $a20080929d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe American play$b[electronic resource] $e1787-2000 /$fMarc Robinson 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (415 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-11649-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 355-390) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aAmerican drama$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTheater$zUnited States$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTheater$xHistory. 676 $a812/.009 700 $aRobinson$b Marc$f1962-$01056208 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455167403321 996 $aThe American play$92490384 997 $aUNINA