Selected Bibliography 2000-2005

Abbotson, Susan C. W. Thematic Guide to Modern Drama. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2003.

Allen, Carol D. Peculiar Passages: Black Women Playwrights, 1875 to 2000. NY: Peter Lang, 2005.

Andreach, Robert J. Drawing Upon the Past: Classical Theatre in the Contemporary American Theatre. NY: Peter Lang, 2003.

Aronson, Arnold. American avant-garde theatre: a history. NY: Routledge, 2000. PN2193 .E86 A88

Bennett, Benjamin. All Theater Is Revolutionary Theater. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2005.

Black, Cheryl. The Women of Provincetown, 1915-1922. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2002.

Bower, Martha G. 'Color Struck' under the Gaze: Ethnicity and the Pathology of Being in the Plays of Johnson, Hurston, Childress, Hansberry, and Kennedy. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003.

Brewer, Mary F. Staging Whiteness. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2005.

Bryer, Jackson R. ed. The Facts on File Companion to American Drama. NY: Facts on File, 2004.

Cortés, Eladio. ed. Encyclopedia of Latin American Theater. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2003.

Cotsell, Michael. The Theater of Trauma: American Modernist Drama and the Psychological Struggle for the American Mind, 1900-1930. NY: Peter Lang, 2005.

Duffy, Susan. ed. The political plays of Langston Hughes. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2000. PS3515.U274 A6

Durham, Leslie A. Staging Gertrude Stein: Absence, Culture, and the Landscape of American Alternative Theatre. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Gardner, Eric. ed. Major Voices: The Drama of Slavery. New Milford, CT: Toby, 2005.

Kubiak, Anthony. Agitated States: Performance in the American Theater of Cruelty. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2002.

Larson, Catherine. Games and Play in the Theater of Spanish American Women. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2004.

Lhamon, W. T., Jr. Jump Jim Crow: Lost Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2003.

Link, Eric C. The Vast and Terrible Drama: American Literary Naturalism in the Late Nineteenth Century. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2004.

Meer, Sarah. Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2005.

Milleret, Margo. Latin American Women In/On Stage. Albany: State U of New York P, 2004.

Nelson, Emmanuel S. Contemporary Gay American Poets and Playwrights: An A-to-Z Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2003.

Savran, David. A Queer Sort of Materialism: Recontextualizing American Theater. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2003.

Shimakawa, Karen. National Abjection: The Asian American Body Onstage. Durham: Duke UP, 2002.

Smith, Marisa. ed. Women playwrights: the best plays of 1999. Hanover, NH: Smith and Kraus, 2001. PS628 .W6 W668x 

Sternlicht, Sanford. A Reader's Guide to Modern American Drama. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2002.

Svich, Caridad, and Maria T. Marrero. eds. Out of the fringe: contemporary Latina/Latino theatre and performance. NY: Theatre Communications Group, 2000. PS628 .H57 O78

Wakefield, Thaddeus. The Family in Twentieth-Century American Drama. NY: Peter Lang, 2003.

Yellow Robe, William S., Jr. preface. Where the Pavement Ends: Five Native American Plays. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 2000.

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Anderson, Lisa M. Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2007.

Belli, Angela. ed. Bodies and Barriers: Dramas of Dis-Ease. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2008.

Brietzke, Zander. American Drama in the Age of Film. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2007.

Bulman, Gail A. Staging Words, Performing Worlds: Intertextuality and Nation in Contemporary Latin American Theater. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2007.

Carter, Tim. Oklahoma! The Making of an American Musical. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 2007.

Cliff, Nigel. The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama, and Death in Ninteenth-Century America. NY: Random House, 2007.

Diggins, John P. Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire under Democracy. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2007.

Jiang, Tsui-fen. The American Dream in African American, Asian American, and Hispanic American Drama: August Wilson, Frank Chin, and Luis Valdez. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 2009.

Johnson, Odai. Absence and Memory in Colonial American Theatre: Fiorelli's Plaster. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Knapp, Raymond. The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2006.

Krasner, David. American Drama 1945-2000: An Introduction. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006.

- - -. A History of Modern Drama, Volume 1. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Lundskaer-Nielsen, Miranda. Directors and the New Musical Drama: British and American Musical Theatre in the 1980s and 90s. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Mahala, Macelle. Penumbra: The Premier Stage for African American Drama. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2013.

Margolies, Edward. New York and the Literary Imagination: The City in Twentieth Century Fiction and Drama. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008.

Maufort, Marc. Labyrinth of Hybridities: Avatars of O'Neillian Realism in Multi-Ethnic American Drama (1972-2003). NY: Peter Lang, 2010.

McMillin, Scott. The Musical as Drama: A Study of the Principles and Conventions Behind Musical Shows from Kern to Sondheim. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2006.

Saal, Ilka. New Deal Theater: The Vernacular Tradition in American Political Theater. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Sauer, David K. American Drama and the Postmodern: Fragmenting the Realistic Stage. Amherst, NY: Cambria, 2011.

Shaffer, Jason. Performing Patriotism: National Identity in the Colonial and Revolutionary American Theater. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2007.

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