Preface SECTION I: UN-AMERICAN ORIGINS (1714-1798) Transatlantic Touchstone: Richard Brinsley Sheridan,The School for Scandal(1777) Robert Hunter, Androboros(1714) Royal Tyler,The Contrast(1787) William Dunlap, André(1798) Drama in Dialogue: The Contrastand André SECTION II: THE RISE OF MELODRAMA (1798-1870) Transatlantic Touchstone: René Charles de Pixérécourt, Coelina, or the Child of Mystery(1800) James Nelson Barker, The Indian Princess(1808) John August Stone, Metamora, or the Last of the Wampanoags(1829) Drama in Dialogue: The Indian Princess and Metamora William Henry Smith, The Drunkard(1844) Anna Cora Mowatt,(1845) Thomas L. Aiken, Uncle Tom's Cabin(1852) Dion Boucicault,The Octoroon(1859) Drama in Dialogue: Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Octoroon SECTION III: AN EXPLOSION OF ENTERTAINMENTS - AND THE EMERGENCE OF REALISM (1870-1916) Transatlantic Touchstone: Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House(1879) Sam T. Jack, Beauty in Dreamland, or The Pearls of the Orient (1889) James A. Herne, Margaret Fleming(1890) Eugene Walter, The Easiest Way(1908) Drama in Dialogue: Margaret Fleming and The Easiest Way SECTION IV: O'NEILL, HIS COHORT, AND THE LEGITIMATE STAGE BETWEEN THE WARS (1916-1945) Transatlantic Touchstone: Georg Kaiser, From Morn Til Midnight(1912, 1917) Susan Glaspell, Trifles(1916) Elmer Rice, The Adding Machine(1923) Sophie Treadwell, Machinal(1928) Drama in Dialogue: The Adding Machine and Machinal Lillian Hellman, The Children's Hour(1934) Clifford Odets, Waiting for Lefty(1935) Thornton Wilder, A Streetcar Named Desire(1947) Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman(1949) William Inge, Come Back, Little Sheba(1950) Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun(1959) Drama in Dialogue: Death of a Salesman andA Raisin in the Sun SECTION VI: ALBEE, OTHERS, AND THE AMERICAN ABSURDIST TRADITION (1959-1980) Transatlantic Touchstone: Samuel Beckett, Endgame (1957) Edward Albee, Zoo Story(1959) Amiri Baraka, Dutchman (1964) Drama in Dialogue: Zoo Story and Dutchman John Guare,House of Blue Leaves(1971) Maria Irene Fornés, Fefu and her Friends(1977) Sam Shepard, Buried Child (1978) Drama in Dialogue: House of Blue Leaves and Buried Child SECTION VII: DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE (1980-present) Transatlantic Touchstone: Athol Fugard, Blood Knot(1961) David Henry Hwang, FOB(1981) William S. Yellow Robe, Jr., The Independence of Eddie Rose(1986) August Wilson, Fences(1987) Drama in Dialogue: Death of a Salesman and Fences David Mamet, Oleanna(1992) Tony Kushner, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes(1993) Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive(1997) Suzan Lori Parks, Topdog/Underdog(2001) Drama in Dialogue: Angels in America and Topdog/Underdog Nilo Cruz,Anna in the Tropics(2002) Neil Labute, Fat Pig(2004) Drama in Dialogue Oleanna and Fat Pig John Patrick Shanley, Doubt(2004) Sarah Ruhl, Dead Man's Cell Phone & gt;(2007) Lin-Manuel Miranda,Hamilton(2015).