American Dramatists, 1918-1945

191 pp. "1918-1945 was the period when America's first wave of major dramatists came of age. The author explores a whole range of drama, from the realistic melodrama of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes and the poetic and lyric realism of William Saroyan's The Time of your Life to the comedies of Kaufman and Hart and the expressionism of The Adding Machine by Elmer Rice. Maxwell Anderson, Clifford Odets and Thornton Wilder are also discussed. "