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The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights
Contributor(s): Adler, Tom (Contribution by), Cummings, Scott T. (Contribution by), Achilles, Jochen (Contribution by)
ISBN: 1472520076     ISBN-13: 9781472520074
Publisher: Methuen Drama
OUR PRICE:   $158.40  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: February 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Drama
- Drama | American - General
Dewey: 812.509
LCCN: 2013033622
Series: Guides to Contemporary Drama
Physical Information: 1.7" H x 5.7" W x 8.8" (1.40 lbs) 504 pages
 
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Unrivalled in its coverage of recent work and writers, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights surveys and analyses the breadth, vitality and development of theatrical work to emerge from America over the last fifty years.
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.

Contributor Bio(s): Schnierer, Peter Paul: - Dr Peter Paul Schnierer is the Chair of English Literature at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.Middeke, Martin: - Middeke Martin (born 24 April 1963 in Paderborn) is a German literary scholar and Chair of English Literature at the University of Augsburg, Germany.Adler, Tom: - Scott T. Cummings is a theatre scholar and critic who has directed plays and taught courses in playwriting and dramatic literature in the Theatre Department of Boston College for more than twenty years. His teaching, research, and professional interests center on contemporary American theatre, new play dramaturgy, and devised work. His major publications include Remaking American Theater: Charles Mee, Anne Bogart and the SITI Company (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Maria Irene Fornes (Routledge, 2012), and The Theatre of Naomi Wallace: Embodied Dialogues (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), a collection of essays and commentary co-edited with Erica Stevens Abbitt. Prior to Boston College, Scott held teaching positions at Carnegie Mellon University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pittsburgh.