American Drama Between the Wars A Critical History

The great age of modern American drama can be understood only in terms of an unprecedented confluence of social and political forces, which catalyzed a new form of drama comparable to the achievements of Stanislavsky in Russia, Max Reinhardt in Berlin, Andre Antoine in Paris, and W.B. Yeats in Dublin. When in 1913 the Armory Exhibition presented the work of European artists Picasso, Brancusi, and Duchamp for the first time in the United States, the country's past aesthetic standards were irreparably fractured.Miller, Jordan Y. is the author of 'American Drama Between the Wars A Critical History' with ISBN 9780805789508 and ISBN 0805789502.