Understanding Tracy Letts /

"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Drama as well as Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Actor, Tracy Letts has emerged as one of the greatest playwrights of the twenty-first century. In the first critical overview of Letts' theatrical oevre, Thomas Fahy contextualizes each of the plays, explo...

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Main Author: Fahy, Thomas Richard (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2020]
Series:Understanding contemporary American literature.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • UNDERSTANDING TRACY LETTS
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • CONTENTS
  • Series Editor's Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1 Understanding Tracy Letts
  • Chapter 2 Disability and Poverty in Killer Joe, The Glass Menagerie, and As I Lay Dying
  • Chapter 3 Conspiracy Theories and Lost Children in Bug and The X-Files
  • Chapter 4 Food, Culinary Justice, and Native American Identity in August: Osage County
  • Chapter 5 Mary Page Marlowe and the Patchwork of Personal Identity
  • Chapter 6 Troubled Masculinity and Aging White Men in Linda Vista, Superior Donuts, and Man from Nebraska
  • Epilogue: Women in Windows
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index