Twentieth-Century Drama
Theatrical plays
Details:
Plays of the English-speaking world covering the history of modern drama, including:
- canonical authors: Langston Hughes, Noel Coward, David Mamet, Eugene O'Neill, Thorton Wilder
- works drawn from the full range of modern theater:
- acclaimed North American drama of the 1950s and 1960s
- Pulitzer Prize-winning plays
- community theater
- comedies, farces
- melodramas, thrillers
- key areas:
- African American drama
- off- and off-off Broadway
- popular successes
- women playwrights
- complete works of George Bernard Shaw
- Irish theatre
- political plays
- historical dramas