The Contemporary American Dramatic Trilogy

<p> The dramatic trilogy has been flourishing for some time now in new works and revivals of older works by American British and European playwrights. This book analyzes recent American works by Caucasian African American Asian American and Hispanic American men and women. There are five chapters beginning with Opposing Families (trilogies of e.g. Lanford Wilson Foote Machado and McCraney are examined). Carson Rabe and McLaughlin are among those in the Classical Reimaginings chapter while Coen Berc and Wolfe constitute the Medieval Reimaginings chapter. Van Itallie Havis Rapp and Hwang among others create New Forms. LaBute Fierstein and Nelson among others create New Selves. The concluding chapter is devoted to Ruhl's <I>Passion Play</I> which spans 400 years of theatre-creating from Elizabethan England to Hitler's Germany to the Reagan era in America.</p>