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Contemporary American Drama (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)

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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;

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