Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: The Prison-House of Gender 1. Strudel and the Single Man: All My Sons and Death of a Salesman 2. Witchcraft and the Weird: The Crucible and A View from the Bridge 3. Performing White Male Heteronormativity: A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 4. Playing Ball on the Margins: Raisin in the Sun, Fences, Curse of the Starving Class 5. Queering a New Generation: Angels in America, How I Learned to Drive, Fun Home 6. Cakewalks and the White Gaze: Topdog/Underdog, Fairview, Slave Play Notes References Index

Promotional Information

This wide-ranging study of masculinity in American drama begins with the works of Arthur Miller, takes in the work of his playwriting contemporaries and descendants and follows the figure of the male breadwinner to the present day.

About the Author

Claire Gleitman is Professor of Dramatic Literature and Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences at Ithaca College, USA. She is the editor of All My Sons (Methuen Drama, 2022). At Ithaca College, she is also the director and co-founder of the On the Verge play-reading series and former coordinator of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Reviews

By connecting post-World War Two American containment to current polarizing gender politics and Trumpism, this book offers historical insight and current social commentary to illustrate how American drama continuously investigates and critiques the society for which it has been written. An excellent study of drama, gender, race, and America itself.
*Susan Abbotson, Rhode Island College, USA*