Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction xi
4. Part One. Tennessee Williams 1911-1983
5. Myth as a Basis of Dramatic Structure in Orpheus Descending 3
6. The Composition of The Glass Menagerie: An Argument for Complexity 12
7. Realism and Theatricalism in A Streetcar Named Desire 27
8. The Grotesque Children of The Rose Tattoo 39
9. Part Two. Arthur Miller 1915-
10. All My Sons and the Larger Context 55
11. The Fall And After - Arthur Miller's Confession 68
12. Arthur Miller's The Crucible: Background and Sources 80
13. Arthur Miller's Incident At Vichy: A Sartrean Interpretation 94
14. Part Three. Edward Albee 1928-
15. Tragic Vision in The Zoo Story 109
16. Games People Play in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 121
17. Curiouser and Curiouser: A Study of Edward Albee's Tiny Alice 130
18. Death as a Mirror of Life: Edward Albee's All Over 139
19. Albee's Seascape: An Adult Fairy Tale 150
20. Part Four Sam Shepard 1943-
21. Defusion of Menace in the Plays of Sam Shepard 163
22. The Tooth of Crime: Sam Shepard's Way With Music 174
23. Mythic Levels in Shepard's True West 188
24. Sam Shepard's Buried Child: The Ironic Use of Folklore 203
25. Chronology 210
26. Bibliographical Note 217