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No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the written permission of the publisher.  \nPrinted and bound in the United States of America.  \n10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nModern American drama / [edited and with an introduction by] Harold Bloom.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(Bloom’s period studies) Includes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 0-7910-8238-5  \n1. American drama—20th century—History and criticism. I. Bloom, Harold. II. Series.  \nPS350 .M63 2005 812’.509—dc22  \n2005005343  \nContributing editor: Pamela Loos Cover design by Keith Trego Cover: Assocate Press, AP Layout by EJB Publishing Services  \nAll links and web addresses were checked and verified to be correct at the time of publication. Because of the dynamic nature of the web, some addresses and links may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid.  \nEvery effort has been made to trace the owners of copyrighted material and secure copyright permission. Articles appearing in this volume generally appear much as they did in their original publication with little to no editorial changes. Those interested in locating the original source will find bibliographic information on the first page of each article as well as in the bibliography and acknowledgments sections of this volume.  \nContents  \nEditor’s Note vii  \nIntroduction 1  \nHarold Bloom  \nEugene O’Neill 13  \nLionel Trilling  \nEdward Albee: Don’t Make Waves 21  \nGerald Weales  \nThe Discipline of Arrogance 45  \nAnne Paolucci  \nThe Perspective of a Playwright 55  \nLeonard Moss  \n“Minting their Separate Wills”:  \nTennessee Williams and Hart Crane 73  \nGilbert Debusscher  \nThe Major Full-Length Plays: Visions of Survival 97  \nDavid Castronovo  \nArthur Miller: Public Issues, Private Tensions 115  \nRobertA. Martin  \nSexual Perversity in Chicago 125  \nAnne Dean  \nvi Contents  \nThe Play as Lang-scape: 1920 to 1933 161  \nJane Palatini Bowers  \nFilling the Time:  \nReading History in the Drama of August Wilson 173  \nJohn Timpane  \nAnti-Theatricality and American Ideology:  \nMamet’s Performative Realism 191  \nMichael L. Quinn  \nIntroduction: States of Crisis 209  \nStephen J. Bottoms  \nFefu and Her Friends: The View from the Stone 233  \nElinor Fuchs  \nTennessee Williams: The Theatricalising Self 259  \nC. W.E. Bigsby  \nTony Kushner 297  \nHarold Bloom  \nChronology 303  \nContributors 305  \nBibliography 309  \nAcknowledgments 313  \nIndex 315  \nEditor’s Note  \nMy Introduction works its way through some of the major plays of O’Neill, Wilder, Williams, Miller, Simon, Albee, Shepard, and August Wilson, before concluding with David Mamet. At the close of this volume, I both celebrate and worry about Tony Kushner. All theater, according to Benjamin Bennett, is revolutionary theater, but he astutely means that the mixed form of dramatic literature and public performance is more of a genre problem than it is a political phenomenon. Like the late Arthur Miller and August Wilson, Kushner is a politically oriented playwright, and I entertain doubts as to the long-range aesthetic validity of obsessive political concerns in our America.  \nLionel Trilling, the exemplar of the liberal imagination in the United States, grants Eugene O","cbCaiaIYcJULOVd5","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaIYcJULOVd5","pdf",1425797,332,"English","# Editor’s Note\n# Introduction\n# Harold Bloom\n## Eugene O’Neill\n## Lionel Trilling\n## Edward Albee: Don’t Make Waves\n## Gerald Weales\n## The Discipline of Arrogance\n## Anne Paolucci\n## The Perspective of a Playwright\n## Leonard Moss\n## “Minting their Separate Wills”: Tennessee Williams and Hart Crane\n## Gilbert Debusscher\n## The Major Full-Length Plays: Visions of Survival\n## David Castronovo\n## Arthur Miller: Public Issues, Private Tensions\n## Robert A. Martin\n## Sexual Perversity in Chicago\n## Anne Dean\n## The Play as Lang-scape: 1920 to 1933\n## Jane Palatini Bowers\n## Filling the Time: Reading History in the Drama of August Wilson\n## John Timpane\n## Anti-Theatricality and American Ideology: Mamet’s Performative Realism\n## Michael L. Quinn\n## Introduction: States of Crisis\n## Stephen J. Bottoms\n## Fefu and Her Friends: The View from the Stone\n## Elinor Fuchs\n## Tennessee Williams: The Theatricalising Self\n## C. W. E. 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