Contemporary American Drama (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
Overview
If the greatest challenge of theater has been to make illusion
seem real, the greatest challenge of American theater has been to
create theater that is in kind or degree peculiarly American. Among
those twentieth century American playwrights who successfully met
this challenge are Eugene
O’Neill and Arthur
Miller, who addressed something peculiarly American in
their works; [The entire page is 4048 words long]
