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List of Illustrations.Notes on Contributors.Preface: Molly Smith (ArenaStage in Washington, D.C.).Acknowledgements.1. Introduction: The ChangingPerceptions of American Drama: David Krasner (Yale University).2. AmericanDrama 1900-1915: Mark Evans Bryan (Dennison University).3. Ethnic AmericanDrama: Rachel Shteir (DePaul University).4. Susan Glaspell and SophieTreadwell: Staging Feminism and Modernism, 1915-1941: J. Ellen Gainor(Cornell University) and Jerry Dickey (University of Arizona).5. AmericanExperimentalism, American Expressionism, and Early O'Neill: DeAnna M. TotenBeard (Baylor University).6. Many-Faceted Mirror: Drama as Reflection ofUneasy Modernity in the Twenties: Felicia Hardison Londre (University ofMissouri-Kansas City).7. Playwrights and Plays of the Harlem Renaissance:Annemarie Bean (Williams College).8. Reading Across the 1930s: Anne Fletcher(Southern Illinois University-Carbondale).9. Famous Unknowns: The Dramas ofDjuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein: Sarah Bay-Cheng (Colgate University).10.Eugene O'Neill: American Drama and American Modernism: David Krasner (YaleUniversity).11. Fissures Beneath the Surface: Drama in the 1940s and 1950s:Thomas Adler (Purdue University).12. Tennessee Williams: Brenda Murphy(University of Connecticut).13. Expression and Exploring Faith: ReligiousDrama in America: Peter Civetta (Cornell University).14. The Jewishness ofArthur Miller: Murray Biggs (Yale University).15. Drama of the 1960s:Christopher Olsen (York College and Millerville University).16. Fifteen-Love,Thirty-Love: Edward Albee: Steven Price (University of Wales, Bangor).17. TheDrama of the Black Arts Movement: Mike Sell (Indiana University ofPennsylvania).18. Sam Shepard and the American Sunset: Enchantment of theMythic West: Leslie A. Wade (Louisiana State University).19. Staging theBinary: Asian American Theatre in the Late Twentieth Century: Daphne Lei(University of California, Irvine).20. August Wilson: Harry J. Elam, Jr.(Stanford University).21. Native American Drama: Ann Haugo (Illinois StateUniversity).22. John Guare and the Popular Culture Hype of Celebrity Status:Gene A. Plunka (University of Memphis).23. Writing Beyond Borders: A Surveyof U. S. Latina/o Drama: Tiffany Ana Lopez (University of California,Riverside).24. Off the Porch and into the Scene: Southern Women PlaywrightsBeth Henley, Marsha Norman, Rebecca Gilman and Jane Martin: Linda RohrerPaige (Georgia Southern University).25. David Mamet: America on the AmericanStage: Janet V. Haedicke (University of Louisiana at Monroe).26. 1970-1990:Disillusionment, Identity, and Discovery: Mark Fearnow (Hanover College).27.Maria Irene Fornes: Andrew Sofer (Boston College).28. From Eccentricity toEndurance: Jewish Comedy and the Art of Affirmation: Julia Listengarten(University of Central Florida).29. Repercussions and Remainders in the Playsof Paul Vogel: An Essay in Five Moments: Ann Pellegrini (New YorkUniversity).30. Lesbian and Gay Drama: Jill Dolan (University of Texas).31.American Drama of the 1990s On- and Off-Broadway: June Schlueter (LafayetteCollege).32. Solo Performance Drama: The Self as Other? Stephen Bottoms(University of Glasgow).33. Experimental Drama at the End of the Century:Ehren Fordyce (Stanford University).Index