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  • Introduction:
  • The changing perceptions of American drama /
  • David Krasner
  • American drama, 1900-1915 /
  • Mark Evans Bryan
  • Ethnic theatre in America /
  • Rachel Shteir
  • Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell: staging feminism and modernism, 1915-1941 /
  • J. Ellen Gainor,
  • Jerry Dickey
  • American experimentalism, American expressionism, and early O'Neill /
  • Deanna M. Toten Beard
  • Many-faceted mirror: drama as reflection of uneasy modernity in the 1920s /
  • Felicia Hardison Londré
  • Playwrights and plays of the Harlem Renaissance /
  • Annemarie Bean
  • Reading across the 1930s /
  • Anne Fletcher
  • Famous unknowns: the dramas of Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein /
  • Sarah Bay-Cheng
  • Eugene O'Neill: American drama and American modernism /
  • David Krasner
  • Fissures beneath the surface: drama in the 1940s and 1950s /
  • Thomas P. Adler
  • Tennessee Williams /
  • Brenda A. Murphy
  • Expressing and exploring faith: religious drama in America /
  • Peter Civetta
  • The American Jewishness of Arthur Miller /
  • Murray Biggs
  • Drama of the 1960s /
  • Christopher Olsen
  • Fifteen-love, thirty-love: Edward Albee /
  • Steven Price
  • The drama of the Black Arts Movement /
  • Mike Sell
  • Sam Shepard and the American sunset: enchantment of the mythic West /
  • Leslie A. Wade
  • Staging the binary: Asian American theatre in the late twentieth century /
  • Daphne Lei
  • August Wilson /
  • Harry J. Elam, Jr.
  • Native American drama /
  • Ann Haugo
  • John Guare and the popular culture hype of celebrity status /
  • Gene A. Plunka
  • Writing beyond borders: a survey of US Latina/o drama /
  • Tiffany Ana Lopez
  • "Off the porch and into the scene": southern women playwrights Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, Rebecca Gilman, and Jane Martin /
  • Linda Rohrer Paige
  • David Mamet: America on the American stage /
  • Janet V. Haedicke
  • 1970-1990: disillusionment, identity, and discovery /
  • Mark Fearnow
  • Maria Irene Fornes: acts of translation /
  • Andrew Sofer
  • From eccentricity to endurance: Jewish comedy and the art of affirmation /
  • Julia Listengarten
  • Repercussions and remainders in the plays of Paula Vogel: an essay in five moments /
  • Ann Pellegrini
  • Lesbian and gay drama /
  • Jill Dolan
  • American drama of the 1990s on tand off-broadway /
  • June Schleuter
  • Solo performance drama: the self as other? /
  • Stephen J. Bottoms
  • Experimental drama at the end of the century /
  • Ehren Fordyce.