The Presence of the Past in Modern American Drama.

Martha Gilman Bower, Patricia R. Schroeder

American Literature · 1989 · 12 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

This study focuses on Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams, who, within the overall framework of formal realism, reshaped dramatic form to depict a past that interacts with the present in complex and often surprising ways. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Award in Modern Drama.