Preston Jones (Critical Survey of Drama)
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Preston Jones is known only for his plays.
Achievements
Preston Jones is often labeled a regional playwright, and certainly one of his achievements was his treatment of the American Southwest as a setting for serious drama. His plays capture the idiosyncratic characters, regional language, and unique experience of the rural Southwest at a time of transition for the land and its people. The significance of Jones’s work, however, is not limited to his recording of the life of a specific community. The plays are significant commentaries on...
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