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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface: American Dramatic Realisms, Viable Frames of Thought
1. Introduction: The Struggle for the Real—Interpretive Conflict, Dramatic Method, and the Paradox of Realism
2. The Legacy of James A. Herne: American Realities and Realisms
3. Whose Realism? Rachel Crothers’s Power Struggle in the American Theatre
4. The Provincetown Players’ Experiments with Realism
5. Servant of Three Masters: Realism, Idealism, and “Hokum” in American High Comedy
6. Remembering the Disremembered: Feminist Realists of the Harlem Renaissance
7. Eugene O’Neill and Reality in America
8. “Odets, Where Is Thy Sting?” Reassessing the “Playwright of the Proletariat”
9. Thornton Wilder, the Real, and Theatrical Realism
10. Into the Foxhole: Feminism, Realism, and Lillian Hellman
11. Tennessee Williams’s “Personal Lyricism”: Toward an Androgynous Form
12. Arthur Miller: Revisioning Realism
13. Margins in the Mainstream: Contemporary Women Playwrights
14. The Limits of African-American Political Realism: Baraka’s Dutchman and Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
15. Anti-Theatricality and American Ideology: Mamet’s Performative Realism
16. The Hurlyburly Lies of the Causalist Mind: Chaos and the Realism of Rabe and Shepard
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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