...David K. Sauer; Geoffrey Sauer 19 Drama David K. Sauer and Geoffrey Sauer This year’s publications reveal the growing number of books and articles on American drama from diverse perspectives. However, the majority of these use some historiography as a primary approach to the plays...

...David K. Sauer; Geoffrey Sauer © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 American Literary Scholarship (2018) doi 10.1215/00659142-8118622 © 2020 by Duke University Press 18 Drama David K. Sauer and Geoffrey Sauer Interestingly, each year s crop of studies of American drama often has its own...

...David K. Sauer; Geoffrey Sauer Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Drama David K. Sauer and Geo rey Sauer Writing in the Coronavirus Year has provided us a chance to step back from the immediate, to look more widely at scholarship from past years. Workers from several publishers...

...James J. Martine Duke University Press 2003 18 Drama James J. Martine The more things change the more they remain the same; the more things change, the more they, well, change. Some changes are minor and perhaps transient. This year David Mamet and August Wilson replace...

...James J. Martine Duke University Press 2004 18 Drama James J. Martine Illusion and reality blur in American popular culture. Motion pictures are redolent with Hollywood products like The Matrix Reloaded and X-2: X-Men United, which take film’s technological bravura further...

...David K. Sauer © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 18 Drama David K. Sauer Last year’s innovation in drama criticism was a kind of historicism that wove together artifacts surrounding a play like Uncle Tom’s Cabin to define a broader context, though to some extent reducing...

...James J. Martine Duke University Press 2005 19 Drama James J. Martine Perhaps it is time once again to look at the predicament in scholarly publishing and its e√ect on academic evaluation. While the MLA and others propose changes in the methods of measure in tenure...

...James J. Martine Duke University Press 2006 19  Drama James J. Martine As America’s toastmaster general of the old millennium, George Jessel, philosophically reflected fifty years ago, nothing is more permanent than change. In the near future AmLS may need...

...Dorothy Chansky Duke University Press 2008 18  Drama Dorothy Chansky No assessment of American drama this year could fail to note two headline-making events in the field: the death of Wendy Wasserstein and the opening of Suzan-Lori Parks’s year-long play...

...Dorothy Chansky Duke University Press 2007 19  Drama Dorothy Chansky In accepting the MLA Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement in 2005, J. Hillis Miller praised “those students and faculty these days who are most attracted by the contextual side of literary...

...Dorothy Chansky Duke University Press 2009 19  Drama Dorothy Chansky No major trends stand out in this year’s scholarship on American drama, although an interest in the Progressive Era is manifest in several books. Despite a plenitude of articles and books, there is still...

...Dorothy Chansky; Jonathan Chambers Duke University Press 2010 19  Drama Dorothy Chansky and Jonathan Chambers Book publishing in American theater and drama—indeed about the- ater and drama, period—dropped precipitously in 2008. The groaning boards of the book display...

...Dorothy Chansky; Jonathan Chambers Duke University Press 2011 19 Drama Dorothy Chansky and Jonathan Chambers For the second year in a row, significantly fewer books were published about American theater and drama than during the first two-thirds of the decade. No special topics...

...David K. Sauer © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 19 Drama David K. Sauer This year’s scholarship extends the emerging approach of contextualizing the study of playwrights in the larger culture. In contrast to the tendency of academe to continually subdivide into narrower...

...David K. Sauer © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 19 Drama David K. Sauer The year’s selection of books and articles has several common denomina- tors, despite the wide diversity of the plays in time and space. The most prominent shared feature is concern to address...

...James J. Martine © 2000 Duke University Press 2000 19 Drama James J. Martine A significant number of volumes were published this year, including a number that ought not to have been published at all. Matching the growing gap between scholarly rhetoric and the language of everyday life...

...James J. Martine © 2001 Duke University Press 2001 19 Drama James J. Martine As the last decade of the millennium comes to a close, scholarship has paused to take a big gulp of air after a rich and prolific 10 years of work on American drama. Suspicion increases...

...James J. Martine Duke University Press 2002 19 Drama James J. Martine The first year of the millennium may prove to be a watershed in ways other than chronological. New York theater strains to bridge a chasm between two audiences, one mostly baby boomers and older who expect...