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American theater grew out because of economic, political, social, and cultural
changes that occurred in the last half of the nineteenth century and throughout the twentieth.
The fallout of the Industrial Revolution changed the American culture, making strong impact on the American population realigned by surges of immigrants, traumatized by war, and how it became an urban society.
American playwrights gave a meaning to the
changes of this "modern" world. They draw heavily the sources that had effected the changes. American dramatists found inspiration in the intellectual "arguments" of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and the psychoanalytical concepts of Freud .
All these things influenced the American drama.
The American individual had been cut loose from the traditional"anchors" of religion and family relationships. American dramatists such as O’Neill, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams .
they lay bare human passions, exposed the raw tensions of the American family, and challenged
Victorian "morality".
For example the term "heroic" was redefined. The protagonist was no longer an idealistic. He was an alienated tragic hero seeking to "belong" in an eroded
"jungle" society, or an "everyman" trying to "cope" through false compensations of "pipe dreams," or a
muted survivor living a life of "quiet desperation," a victim of societal pressure, animal desires, and loss of integrity.
Such themes cried out for fresh designs in form. Lighting, music, visual props, and set design became an integral part of dramatic scripts.
America’s great dramatists become both the " consciousness" and "conscience" of America, digging deeply into the American psyche .such as the social"ego,"of the American Dream. They reveal, in stunning ways, that the American heart is a universal heart.
The themes and forms of the work of one of America’s most gifted and innovative playwrights,
Tennessee Williams, showcase many of the influences and trends that characterize modern American drama.
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