American Drama and the Postmodern:  Fragmenting the Realistic Stage
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

ix

Chapter 1: Theorizing Contemporary American Drama: Fractured Plots, Fragmented in Time, in Space

1

Chapter 2: (Post)Modern Feminism on the Broadway Stage: Rachel Crothers and Wendy Wasserstein

45

Chapter 3: Six Degrees of Separation: Philip Barry’s Mimetic Holiday and John Guare’s Performative Postmodernism 91

91

Chapter 4: Oleanna and The Children’s Hour: Misreading Sexuality on the Realistic Stage 141

141

Chapter 5: “That’s Realism.” The Language of (Post)Modernist Tragedy: Desire Under the Elms and Buried Child

181

Chapter 6: Eugene O’Neill and August Wilson: Comings and Goings between Past and Present

217

Chapter 7: Magic Realism: Staging the Invisible in (Post)Modern Drama

257