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A comprehensive history of southern drama from the colonial period to the present that delineates the rich heritage of dramatic writing in the South. Author Charles Watson explores the field from its 18th- and 19th-century roots through the Southern LIterary Renaissance and Tennessee Williamss triumphs to the plays of 1994 Pulitzer Prize winner Horton Foote. 12 photos .
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American drama--Southern States--History and criticism, Southern States--In literature.
publication date
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1997
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PS261.W356 1997eb
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812.009/975
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American drama--Southern States--History and criticism, Southern States--In literature.
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The History of Southern Drama
Charles S. Watson
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Publication of this volume was made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Copyright 1997 by The University Press of Kentucky
Scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth, serving Bellarmine College, Berea College, Centre College of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University, The Filson Club Historical Society, Georgetown College, Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky State University, Morehead State University, Murray State University, Northern Kentucky University, Transylvania University, University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, and Western Kentucky University. All rights reserved
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Watson, Charles S., 1931 The history of southern drama / Charles S. Watson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8131-2030-6 1. American dramaSouthern StatesHistory and criticism. 2. Southern StatesIn literature. I. Title. PS261.W356 1997 812.009'975dc21 97-19456
This book is printed on acid-free recycled paper meeting the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library materials.
Manufactured in the United States of America
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To my dear son and daughter, Whitten Sullivan Watson and Ellen Currie Watson
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Contents
Preface
ix
Prologue: Definitions and Preliminaries
1
1 Nationalism and Native Culture in Virginia
10
2 Prolific Playwriting in Charleston
25
3 The Dramatist as Humorist in New Orleans
48
4 Drama Goes to War
64
5 The Modern Drama of Espy Williams
85
6 The Leadership of Paul Green
99
7 DuBose Heyward's Transmutation of Black Culture
122
8 The Southern Marxism of Lillian Hellman
133
9 Black Drama: Politics or Culture
144
10 Randolph Edmonds and Civil Rights
160
11 The Cultural Imagination of Tennessee Williams
174
12 Past and Present Cultures in Recent Drama
192
Epilogue: Politics, Culture, and the Rise of Southern Drama
212
Notes
218
Bibliography
243
Index
255
Illustrations Follow Page
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Preface
When the Carolina Playmakers sponsored the Southern Regional Theatre Festival in April 1940 at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, George R. Cofiman, chair of the University of North Carolina's English Department, called for "a comprehensive history of drama in the South" from the beginning to the present. At that time the plays of Tennessee Williams had not yet added luster to the subject, nor had much scholarship on pre-1900 drama been published. Since 1940, southern drama has reached new heights, and valuable studies have appearedbut still no overall account. Undeniably the time is ripe for the first history of southern drama.
When I completed my chapter on southern drama to 1900 for A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Southern Literature (1969), I too recommended a comprehensive history of the subject. Yet drama was badly neglected in the latest survey of southern literature as a whole, The History of Southern Literature (1985): in a volume of 605 pages, a chapter entitled "The Old South, 1815-1840" devotes just one paragraph to pre-1900 drama, and the chapter on "Modern Southern Drama" discusses only Paul Green, Lillian Hellman, and Tennessee Williamsin seven pages.
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