AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS AND MODERN DRAMA BY HARIOM PRASAD (HARDCOVER)

American writing began with the work of English adventures and colonists in the new world chiefly for the benefit of readers in the mother county. The drama of the United States is considered a bastard child of literature; like all plays, they are apparently banished by the academy into their own genre. But unlike those other international plays, they have received little due even from American critics. American drama that underwent considerable sea-change, American dramatists clearly did not wait for the development of the off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway stages of the 1950s and 1960s to forge new paths. The American dramatists experimented with their form for Broadway audiences does not undermine the validity of that experimentation, but that too is the result of history and does not reflect the status of the Broadway stage at the time.