...David K. Sauer; Geoffrey Sauer Copyright © 2022 Duke University Press 2022 gsauer@iastate.edu sauer@shc.edu 20 Drama David K. Sauer and Geoffrey Sauer Scholarship on drama and theater is constantly exploring new directions. Over a decade ago, for example, there was a notable...

...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...

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...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...

...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...

...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...

...David K. Sauer © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 19 Drama David K. Sauer The common thread in this year’s studies is an effort to contextualize plays, particularly rich both in number of full-length studies and in the diverse directions they pursue. Especially bountiful...

...David K. Sauer © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 18 Drama David K. Sauer Last year’s survey concentrated on performance’s effect on dramatic criticism. Meaning enlarges as new productions reveal added dimen- sions to a script, so that the meaning, in a sense, is ever expanding...

... of Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus, of Chapter 18 (“Poetry: The 1950s to the Present”) from Jim Cocola. Geoffrey Sauer of Iowa State University collaborates with his father David K. Sauer in producing Chapter 19 American Literary Scholarship (2015) doi 10.1215/00659142-3975296 © 2017...

... 10.1215/00659142-3769769 © 2016 by Duke University Press viii Foreword father and son will collaborate: David Sauer, who has prepared “Drama” since 2010, will be joined next year by his son Geoffrey Sauer, Iowa State University. Todd Richardson, University of Texas of the Permian Basin...

... and Dickinson Alan Gribben (“Mark Twain Ted Atkinson (“Faulkner Reiner Smolinski (“Literature to 1800 Sally E. Parry (“Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s David K. Sauer (“Drama and Jena Habegger-Conti (the “Nordic Contributions” contingent). My thanks to all, and compound thanks to Alan Gribben, who stepped...

... introduction, “David Mamet” (pp. 1–40), and a concluding piece, “David Mamet’s Fiction” (pp. 194–219). David Sauer and Janice A. Sauer’s “Misreading Mamet: Scholarship and Reviews” (pp. 220–42) is a cautionary tale by two Mamet scholars who last year provided Praeger’s David Mamet...

..., books, articles, and sections of books presented chronologically. The same series under adviser William W. Demastes includes David K. Sauer and Janice A. Sauer’s David Mamet: A Research and Production Sourcebook. The authors begin with the requisite comments on Mamet’s life and career, a sketchy...

... successful; and it concludes with David K. Sauer and Janice A. Sauer’s useful retrospective on criticism of Wilson’s work that includes a selective bibliography (pp. 193–201) and Bigsby’s 1991 interview with Wilson. With a subtitle borrowed from Mamet’s play of the same name, Ira Nadel’s David...

... in Michelle M. Sauer, ed., Honoring Human Herstory: A Celebration of Women’s Heritage (Minot), argues that Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe wrote about women in ways that Andrew M. Smith and Elizabeth J. Wright 37 differed from previous authors. She traces how Hawthorne emulated...

... Sappenfield, James A., 251 Shockley, Evie, 363, 382–85, 388 Sauer, David K., 401 Shookman, Ellis, 244 Saunders, Richard L., 310 Shoop, Casey, 293 Sauter, Irene Billeter, 128 Shostak, Debra, 353 Savarese, Ralph James, 52 Showalter, Elaine, 89 Saville...

... Sappenfield, James A., 251 Shockley, Evie, 363, 382–85, 388 Sauer, David K., 401 Shookman, Ellis, 244 Saunders, Richard L., 310 Shoop, Casey, 293 Sauter, Irene Billeter, 128 Shostak, Debra, 353 Savarese, Ralph James, 52 Showalter, Elaine, 89 Saville...