The Struggle for the real
interpretive conflict, dramatic method, and the paradox of realism / Brian Richardson
The Legacy of James A. Herne: American realities and realisms / Patricia D. Denison
Whose realism? Rachel Crothers's power struggle in the American theatre / Yvonne Shafer
The Provincetown players' experiments with realism / J. Ellen Gainor
Servant of three masters: realism, idealism, and 'hokum' in American high comedy / Robert F. Gross
Remembering the disremembered: feminist realists of the Harlem renaissance / Patricia R. Schroeder
Eugene O'Neill and reality in America / Frank R. Cunningham
'Odets, where is thy sting?' Reassessing the 'playwright of the proletariat' / John W. Frick
Thornton Wilder, the real, and theatrical realism / Christopher J. Wheatley
Into the foxhole: feminism, realism, and Lillian Hellman / Judith E. Barlow
Tennessee Williams's 'personal lyricism': toward an androgynous form / Thomas P. Adler
Arthur Miller: revisioning realism / Brenda Murphy
Margins in the mainstream: contemporary women playwrights / Janet V. Haedicke
The Limits of African-American political realism: Baraka's Dutchman and Wilson's Ma Rainey's black bottom / Eric Bergesen and William W. Demastes
Anti-theatricality and American ideology: Mamet's performative realism / Michael L. Quinn
The Hurlyburly lies of the causalist mind: chaos and the realism of Rabe and Shepard / William W. Demastes and MIchael Vanden Heuvel.