LEADER 03202nam 2200637 450 001 9910778973303321 005 20220420225350.0 010 $a0-8131-8889-X 010 $a0-8131-4999-1 010 $a0-8131-7023-0 035 $a(CKB)111004368603338 035 $a(EBL)1915126 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000172238 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12039714 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000172238 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10151900 035 $a(PQKB)11508120 035 $a(OCoLC)47011330 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43905 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1915126 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11011801 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL690882 035 $a(OCoLC)900344361 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1915126 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004368603338 100 $a20150209h20091997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe history of Southern drama /$fCharles S. Watson 205 $aPaperback edition. 210 1$aLexington, Kentucky :$cThe University Press of Kentucky,$d2009. 210 4$dİ1997 215 $a1 online resource (280 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-59600-X 311 $a0-8131-2030-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Prologue: Definitions and Preliminaries; 1 Nationalism and Native Culture in Virginia; 2 Prolific Playwriting in Charleston; 3 The Dramatist as Humorist in New Orleans; 4 Drama Goes to War; 5 The Modern Drama of Espy Williams; 6 The Leadership of Paul Green; 7 DuBose Heyward's Transmutation of Black Culture; 8 The Southern Marxism of Lillian Hellman; 9 Black Drama: Politics or Culture; Illustrations; 10 Randolph Edmonds and Civil Rights; 11 The Cultural Imagination of Tennessee Williams; 12 Past and Present Cultures in Recent Drama 327 $aEpilogue: Politics, Culture, and the Rise of Southern DramaNotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W 330 $aMention southern drama at a cocktail party or in an American literature survey, and you may hear cries for ""Stella!"" or laments for ""gentleman callers."" Yet southern drama depends on much more than a menagerie of highly strung spinsters and steel magnolias.Charles Watson explores this field from its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century roots through the southern Literary Renaissance and Tennessee Williams's triumphs to the plays of Horton Foote, winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize. Such well known modern figures as Lillian Hellman and DuBose Heyward earn fresh looks, as does Tennessee Williams 606 $aAmerican drama$zSouthern States$xHistory and criticism 607 $aSouthern States$xIntellectual life 607 $aSouthern States$xIn literature 615 0$aAmerican drama$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a812.009/975 700 $aWatson$b Charles S.$f1931-$01524493 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778973303321 996 $aThe history of Southern drama$93851596 997 $aUNINA