Sanford Sternlicht presents a comprehensive survey of modern American drama beginning with its antecedents in Victorian melodrama through the present. He discus

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This volume explores the history of American drama from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It describes origins of early republican drama and its evolutio

New edition of Modern American Drama completes the survey and comes up to 2000.

This volume responds to a renewed focus on tragedy in theatre and literary studies to explore conceptions of tragedy in the dramatic work of seventeen canonical