Titlebook: New American Dramatists 1960–1990; Ruby Cohn Textbook 1991Latest edition Ruby Cohn 1991 America.drama.dramatist.edition.play.women

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From Gay to Ridiculous: Duberman, Patrick, Tavel, Bernard, Ludlam,omosexuality is a main theme’. Editor William Hoffman pinpoints Mae West’s . (1927) as the first American homosexual play. In ., as well as her . (1928) Hoffman hears a plea for sexual tolerance. I hear that plea also in Lillian Hellman’s . (1934), but Hoffman finds that she treats homosexuality ‘with little lucidity’.

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chapters on Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-off-Broadway, but she adds new material on women playwrights as well as Asian-American dramatists. With the emergence of David Mamet and Sam Shepard as major playwrights, she contrasts them for mutual illumination.

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,Actor-Activated: Gelber, Horovitz, van Itallie, Terry, Fornès,Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway are only approximations, and I have indicated crossovers. This chapter will be purer, and yet not wholly pure, in its survey of playwrights who were closely involved with performance.

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chapters on Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-off-Broadway, but she adds new material on women playwrights as well as Asian-American dramatists. With the emergence of David Mamet and Sam Shepard as major playwrights, she contrasts them for mutual illumination.

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Foreknowledge

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Agit-Prop and Political Purpose: the Becks, Holden, Valdez, Nelson, on opposition to the war in Vietnam, over half of them were not overtly political. A decade afterwards, six of the nineteen groups were still playing, and only three were politically radical — the Living Theatre, the San Francisco Mime Troupe and El Teatro Campesino.