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Informationen zum Autor Susan Abbotson is Professor of English at Rhode Island College, where she mostly teaches drama. She is the author of Student Companion to Arthur Miller (2000) and A Critical Companion to Arthur Miller (2007) and numerous articles on Arthur Miller and other modern and contemporary playwrights. Past President of the Arthur Miller Society, she now manages their website and FaceBook page, and is the Performance Editor for the Arthur Miller Journal . She also authored Thematic Guide to Modern Drama (2003), Masterpieces of Twentieth Century American Drama (2005), and Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1950s (2019). She has published articles on Sam Shepard, Tom Stoppard, Mae West, Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder, August Wilson, Eugene O’Neill, Lillian Hellman, and Paula Vogel in a variety of books and journals. Susan C.W. Abbotson has taught English for more than 15 years, first at the high school level and now at Rhode Island College. Her previous books include Thematic Guide to Modern Drama (2003), Student Companion to Arthur Miller (2000), and Understanding Death of a Salesman (1999), all available from Greenwood Press. Klappentext American playwrights have made enormous contributions to world drama during the last century, and their works are widely read and performed. This reference conveniently introduces 10 of the most important modern American plays read by students. An introductory essay concisely overviews modern American drama, and each of the chapters that follow examines a particular play. Among the plays discussed are Thornton Wilder's Our Town , Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman , Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun , and August Wilson's The Piano Lesson . Each chapter includes a biography, a plot summary, an analysis of the play's themes, characters, and dramatic art, and a review of its historical background and reception. Chapters list works for further reading, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography. Zusammenfassung Chapters list works for further reading! and the volume closes with a selected! general bibliography. Each chapter provides a biography! a plot summary! a discussion of themes! major characters! and dramatic art! and a survey of the play's historical background and critical reception. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction to 20TH-Century American Drama Thornton Wilder's Our Town (1938) Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (1949) Arthur Miller's The Crucible (1953) Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night (1956) Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (1959) Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) Sam Shepard's Buried Child (1978) David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross (1984) August Wilson's The Piano Lesson (1987) General Bibliography Index ...
