English courses are offered in a selection of flavors with writing taught using information and literature organized around a topic or issue. This page was constructed to support EN175 but also serves as a good general reference guide to selected American drama including biographical information and literary criticism.
Scroll or move to a playwright of interest:
Edward Albee -- John Guare -- Lorraine Hansberry -- David Mamet -- Arthur Miller -- Eugene O'Neill -- Neil Simon -- Wendy Wasserstein -- Tennessee Williams -- August Wilson -- Busse Library Resources
Edward Albee : Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Biography of Edward Albee
- "I am the Earth Mother: Pagan Elements in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf."
- Perspectives in American Literature (PAL): A Reference Guide : Edward Albee
John Guare : Six Degrees of Separation
- John Guare: American Theater History -- biography
Lorraine Hansberry : A Raisin in the Sun
- ISU Play Concordance: "A Raisin in the Sun"
- Lorraine Hansberry: Women of Color Women of Words -- Rutgers University
- "A Raisin in the Sun": Present at the Creation: National Public Radio -- audio and text for segment
- Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color : Lorraine Hansberry
David Mamet: Glengarry Glen Ross
- The David Mamet Information Page
- David Mamet Society
- Salon Interview : David Mamet -- by Richard Covington (1997)
Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
- Arthur Miller
- Arthur Miller Society : Official Website
- Kennedy Center Honors : Arthur Miller
- Perspectives in American Literature (PAL): A Research and Reference Guide : Arthur Miller
- Playwrites : "The System and the American Dream : Death of a Salesman," by Craig M. Garrison
Eugene O'Neill: Long Day's Journey into Night and Desire Under the Elms
- Eugene O'Neill: LucidCafe.com
- Eugene O'Neill: National Historic Site : National Park Service
- Eugene Gladstone O'Neill : Nobel Autobiography
- eOneill.com : An Electronic Eugene O'Neill Archive
- Perspectives in American Literature (PAL): A Research and Reference Guide : Eugene O'Neill
Neil Simon : Brighton Beach Memoirs
- American Masters: Neil Simon: PBS
- The Kennedy Center Honors : Neil Simon
- The Unofficial Neil Simon Homepage
Wendy Wasserstein : The Heidi Chronicles
- Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays : Wendy Wasserstein : The Heidi Chronicles
- Wendy Wasserstein: Jewish Women Encyclopedia
- Wendy Wasserstein: Random House
Tennessee Williams: Cat on a Hot, Tim Roof, Suddenly, Last Summer, and A Streetcar Named Desire
- Mississippi Writers Page (MWP): Tennessee Williams
- Tennessee Williams
- "Love and Death in Tennessee Williams," by John T. Fritscher.
- Perspectives in American Literature (PAL): A Research and Reference Guide : Tennessee Williams
- Tennessee Williams Annual Review: Middle Tennessee State University
August Wilson: Fences and The Piano Lesson
- August Wilson : Biography: Dartmouth University
- August Wilson:Timeline -- from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (author's hometown)
- Internet Broadway Database: August Wilson Credits on Broadway
- Perspectives in American Literature (PAL): August Wilson
- Bloom, Harold. Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman / 1988. PS3525.I5156 D433 1988
- Bloom, Harold. Tennessee Williams / 1987. PS3545.I5365 Z843 1987
- Bogard, Travis. Contour in time : the plays of Eugene O'Neill / 1988. PS3529.N5 Z568 1988
- Carroll, Dennis. David Mamet. 1987. PS3563.A4345 Z62 1987
- Guare, John. John Guare. [1982?] Video PS 3557.U2 Z46 1989
- Hansberry, Lorraine. Lorraine Hansberry : the black experience in the creation of drama. c1975. Video PS 3515. A515 L6x
- Johnson, Robert K. Neil Smon / c1983. PS3537.I663 Z73 1983
- Kane, Leslie. David Mamet : a casebook / 1992. PS3563.A4345 Z65 1991
- McGovern, Edythe M. Not-So-Simple Neil Simon / 1978. PS3537.I663 Z78 1978
- Miller, Arthur. Timebends: a life / 1987. PS3525.I5156 Z477 1987
- Moyers, Bill D. A world of ideas : August Wilson / 1989. Video E 185.W6
- Nemiroff, Robert. To be young, gifted, and black : Lorraine Hansberry / 1970. PS3515.A515 Z8 1970
- O'Neill, Eugene. Eugene O'Neill: comments on the drama / c1987. PS3529.N5 Z582x
- Siebold, Thomas. Readings on Eugene O'Neill / c1998. PS3529.N5 Z7927 1998
- Wasserstein, Wendy. Wendy Wasserstein. [1982?] Video PS 3573. A798 Z476
- Welland, Dennis S.R. Miller, the playwright / 1985. PS3525.I5156 Z952 1985
- Williams, Tennessee. Conversations with Tennessee Williams / c1986. PS3545. I5365 Z463 1986
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