Drawing on the best American plays from the last sixty years, The Methuen Drama Anthology of American Plays is a scintillating collection that offers an unrivalled selection of plays in one value-for-money edition. Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman was first presented in 1949. The tragic drama of Willy Loman and his dreams won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play and the New York Drama Critics' Award for Best Play. It has since become firmly established as a classic of world theatre that is frequently revived and studied. David Rabe's Streamers forms part of a quartet of Vietnam plays written between 1971 and 1976. Awarded the New York Drama Critics' Award it examines the violence and vulnerability of the men who enlist. Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, a play about real-esate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Drama Critics' Award for Best American Play and four Tony nominations in 1984. Shinn's Where Do We Live opened at the Royal Court theatre, London, in 2002 and is 'a rousing inquiry into neighbourliness, into what happens when you try to help those worse off than yourself.'
(Independent on Sunday) A full introduction sets each play in its context and provides an engaging study of the work by these leading writers.
- ISBN10 1408106817
- ISBN13 9781408106815
- Publish Date 10 December 2009
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 17 November 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Methuen Drama
- Format Paperback
- Pages 368
- Language English