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offers comprehensive, newly written surveys of key periods and movements and certain major authors, in English literary culture and history. Extensive volumes provide new perspectives and positions on contexts and on canonical and post-canonical texts, orientating the beginning student in new fields of study and providing the experienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new directions, as pioneered and developed by leading scholars in the field.  \nPublished  \n1. A Companion to Romanticism Edited by Duncan Wu  \n2. A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture Edited by Herbert F. Tucker  \n3. A Companion to Shakespeare Edited by David Scott Kastan  \n4. A Companion to the Gothic Edited by David Punter  \n5. A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare Edited by Dympna Callaghan  \n6. A Companion to Chaucer Edited by Peter Brown  \n7. A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake Edited by David Womersley  \n8. A Companion to English Renaissance  \nLiterature and Culture Edited by Michael Hattaway  \n9. A Companion to Milton Edited by Thomas N. Corns  \n10. A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry Edited by Neil Roberts  \n11. A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture Edited by Phillip Pulsiano and Elaine Treharne  \n12. A Companion to Restoration Drama Edited by Susan J. Owen  \n13. A Companion to Early Modern Women’s Writing Edited by Anita Pacheco  \n14. A Companion to Renaissance Drama Edited by Arthur F. Kinney  \n15. A Companion to Victorian Poetry Edited by Richard Cronin,  \nAlison Chapman and Antony H. Harrison  \n16. A Companion to the Victorian Novel Edited by Patrick Brantlinger  \nand William B. Thesing  \nA Companion to Shakespeare’s Works  \n17. A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Edited by Richard Dutton Volume I: The Tragedies and Jean E. Howard  \n18. A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Edited by Richard Dutton Volume II: The Histories and Jean E. Howard  \n19. A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Edited by Richard Dutton Volume III: The Comedies and Jean E. Howard  \n20. A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Edited by Richard Dutton Volume IV: The Poems, Problem Comedies, and Jean E.Howard Late Plays  \n21. A Companion to the Regional Literatures  \nof America Edited by Charles L. Crow  \n22. A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism Edited by Walter Jost and Wendy Olmsted  \n23. A Companion to the Literature and Culture  \nof the American South Edited by Richard Gray and Owen Robinson  \n24. A Companion to American Fiction 1780–1865 Edited by Shirley Samuels  \n25. A Companion to American Fiction 1865–1914 Edited by G. R. Thompson and Robert Paul Lamb  \n26. A Companion to Digital Humanities Edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth  \n27. A Companion to Romance Edited by Corinne Saunders  \n28. A Companion to the British and  \nIrish Novel 1945–2000 Edited by Brian W. Shaffer  \n29. A Companion to Twentieth-Century  \nAmerican Drama Edited by David Krasner  \n􀀁 2005 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd  \nexcept for editorial material and organization 􀀁 2005 by David Krasner  \nBLACKWELL PUBLISHING  \n350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA  \n108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF, UK  \n550 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia  \nThe right of David Krasner to be identified as the Author of the Editorial Material in this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988 .  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher.  \nFirst published 2005 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nA companion to twentieth-century American drama / edited by David K","cbCaijscAVvXS95J","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijscAVvXS95J","pdf",3762451,598,"English","# Contents\n## Foreword\n## Acknowledgments\n## 1. Introduction: The Changing Perceptions of American Drama\n## 2. American Drama, 1900–1915\n## 3. Ethnic Theatre in America\n## 4. Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell: Staging Feminism and Modernism, 1915–1941\n## 5. American Experimentalism, American Expressionism, and Early O’Neill\n## 6. Many-Faceted Mirror: Drama as Reflection of Uneasy Modernity in the 1920s\n## 7. Playwrights and Plays of the Harlem Renaissance\n## 8. Reading Across the 1930s\n## 9. Famous Unknowns: The Dramas of Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein\n## 10. 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