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Oxford Handbook of American Drama (Oxford Handbooks)
Jeffrey H. . Ed(S): Richards
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Description for Oxford Handbook of American Drama (Oxford Handbooks)
hardcover. This ambitious collection of essays covers American drama in its entirety-from its inception in colonial America, through its many incarnations in the nineteenth century, to its zenith in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Editor(s): Richards, Jeffrey H. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 592 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: AN; DSB; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 255 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1068.
This ambitious collection of essays covers American drama in its entirety--from its inception in colonial America, through its many incarnations in the nineteenth century, to its zenith in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Differentiating itself from other treatments of the genre, the handbook will not only highlight the major works of the twentieth century, but will also attend carefully to earlier works and contexts. The collection's first part will explore the genre's eighteenth-century genesis. William Dunlap's complex, sympathetic portrait of British forces in Andre is counterbalanced by the biting anti-colonial political satire of the nation's first female playwright, Mercy ... Read more
This ambitious collection of essays covers American drama in its entirety--from its inception in colonial America, through its many incarnations in the nineteenth century, to its zenith in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Differentiating itself from other treatments of the genre, the handbook will not only highlight the major works of the twentieth century, but will also attend carefully to earlier works and contexts. The collection's first part will explore the genre's eighteenth-century genesis. William Dunlap's complex, sympathetic portrait of British forces in Andre is counterbalanced by the biting anti-colonial political satire of the nation's first female playwright, Mercy ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PR United States
Number of pages
592
Condition
New
Series
Oxford Handbooks
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199731497
SKU
V9780199731497
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About Jeffrey H. . Ed(S): Richards
Jeffrey H. Richards was Eminent Professor of Literature at Old Dominion University. He was the author of Drama Theater, and Identity in the American New Republic and the editor of Early Plays: Eugene O'Neill and Early American Drama (Penguin; 2001, 1997). Heather S. Nathans is Professor of Theatre at the University of Maryland and the new President of the ... Read more
Reviews for Oxford Handbook of American Drama (Oxford Handbooks)
This reviewer would recommend this handbook for any graduate dramatic literature or theatre history course; each essay displays a firm grasp of the era or subject for which it was written. It is best used in conjunction with the reading of a play or the writing of a paper concerning a particular aspect of American dramatic literature rather than as ... Read more