VOLUME 1: 1900"1939 Critical Overviews 1. William Dean Howells, ~Some New American Plays', Harper's Weekly , 48, 16 Jan. 1904, pp. 88, 90. 2. Florence Kiper, ~Some American Plays from the Feminist Viewpoint', Forum , 51, 1914, pp. 921"31. 3. W. E. B. Du Bois, ~The Negro and the American Stage', The Crisis , June 1924, pp. 56"7. 4. Alain Locke, ~The Drama of Negro Life', Theatre Arts Monthly , Oct. 1926, pp. 701"6. 5. Eulalie Spence, ~A Criticism of the Negro Drama as it Relates to the Negro Dramatist and Artist', Opportunity , June 1928, p. 188. 6. Mary McCarthy, ~The American Realist Playwrights', Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles: 1937"1962 (Farrar Straus,… 1963), pp. 209"29. 7. Eric Bentley, ~Comedy and the Comic Spirit in America', in What Is Theatre? (Atheneum, 1968), pp. 404"14. Susan Glaspell 8. Linda Ben-Zvi, ~"Murder, She Wrote": The Genesis of Susan Glaspell's Trifles ', Theatre Journal , 44, May 1992, pp. 141"62. 9. J. Ellen Gainor, ~ The Verge' , in Susan Glaspell in Context: American Theater, Culture, and Politics , 1915"48 (University of Michigan Press, 2001), pp. 143"70. The Twenties 10. Martha Gilman Bower, ~Zora Neale Hurston', in ~Color Struck': Under the Gaze: Ethnicity and the Pathology of Being in the Plays of Johnson, Hurston, Childress, Hansberry, and Kennedy (Praeger, 2003), pp. 39"62. 11. Dennis G. Jerz, ~ Machinal ', in Technology in American Drama, 1920"1950 (Greenwood Press, 2003), pp. 33"53. Eugene O'Neill 12. Eric Bentley, ~Trying to Like O'Neill', The Kenyon Review , 14, July 1952, pp. 476"92. 13. Timo Tiusanen, ~ The Hairy Ape ', in O'Neill's Scenic Images (Princeton University Press, 1968), pp. 112"27. 14. Travis Bogard, ~ Long Day's Journey Into Night' , in Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill (Oxford University Press, 1988), pp. 422"45. 15. Kurt Eisen, ~ Strange Interlude ', in The Inner Strength of Opposities: O'Neill's Novelistic Drama and the Melodramatic Imagination (University of Georgia Press, 1994), pp. 105"15. 16. Laurin Porter, ~The Banished Prince Revisited: A Feminist Reading of More Stately Mansions ', The Eugene O'Neill Review , 19, Spring/Fall 1995, pp. 7"28. 17. Philip J. Hanson, ~ The Emperor Jones : Naturalistic Tragedy in Hemispheric Perspective', American Drama , 5, Spring 1996, pp. 23"43. 18. Mark A. Mossman, ~Eugene O'Neill and "The Myth of America": Ephraim Cabot as the American Adam', The Eugene O'Neill Review , 23, Spring/Fall 1999, pp. 49"59. The Thirties 19. Arthur Arent, ~The Technique of the Living Newspaper', Theatre Arts , Nov. 1938, pp. 820"5. 20. R. Baird Shuman, ~The Shifting Pacifism of Robert E. Sherwood', South Atlantic Quarterly , 65, 1966, pp. 382"9. 21. David C. Gild, ~Psychodrama on Broadway: Three Plays of Psychodrama by Philip Barry', Markham Review , 1970, pp. 65"74. 22. Gerald Weales, ~The Very High Comedy of Philip Barry', Commonweal , 103, Aug. 1976, pp. 564"6. 23. Jeffrey D. Mason, ~Maxwell Anderson's Dramatic Theory and Key Largo', North Dakota Quarterly , 48, 1980, pp. 38"42. 24. Mark Fearnow, ~Chaos and Cruelty in the Theatrical Space: Horse Eats Hat, Hellzapoppin' and the Pleasure of Farce in Depression America', The Journ