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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Eugene O'Neill / Lionel Trilling -- Edward Albee : don't make waves / Gerald Weales -- The discipline of arrogance / Anne Paolucci -- The perspective of a playwright / Leonard Moss -- 'Minting their separate wills' : Tennessee Williams and Hart Crane / Gilbert Debusscher -- The major full-length plays : visions of survival / David Castronovo -- Arthur Miller : public issues, private tensions / Robert A. Martin -- Sexual perversity in Chicago / Anne Dean -- The play as lang-scape : 1920 to 1933 / Jane Palatini Bowers -- Filling the time : reading history in the drama of August Wilson / John Timpane -- Anti-theatricality and American ideology : Mamet's performative realism / Michael L. Quinn -- Introduction : states of crisis / Stephen J. Bottoms -- Fefu and her friends : the view from the stone / Elinor Fuchs -- Tennessee Williams : the theatricalising self / C.W.E. Bigsby -- Tony Kushner / Harold Bloom.