Focusing on key texts, leading scholars explore how Hollywood has given an enduring life to the classics of Broadway theater.

Sanford Sternlicht presents a comprehensive survey of modern American drama beginning with its antecedents in Victorian melodrama through the present. He discus

New edition of Modern American Drama completes the survey and comes up to 2000.

From its beginnings, the American film industry has profited from bringing popular and acclaimed dramatic works to the screen. This is the first book to offer a

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