American Literature / Unit 17 AML 1635 short lesson, about 20 seconds
American Drama After the War
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The idea
The witness groups the nineteen forties dramatists, Miller, Hellman and Williams, with the short story writers Porter and Welty, all exploring the fate of the individual within family or community. Later playwrights took up European existentialism and the theatre of the absurd.
In practice
Family first, then absurdity.
Where people slip
The realist decade comes before the absurdist one.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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