Includes index

Part 1: Eugene O'Neill: "A monster of perfection": O'Neill's "Stella" / Anne Flèche ; O'Neill's ghostly women / Suzanne Burr ; Theatricality and otherness in All God's chillun got wings / Bette Mandl -- Part 2: Arthur Miller: The exchange of women and male homosocial desire in Arthur Miller's Death of a saleman and Lillian Hellman's Another part of the forest / Gayle Austin ; Women and the American dream of Death of a salesman / Kay Stanton ; Paper dolls: melodrama and sexual politics in Arthur Miller's early plays / Jeffrey D. Mason ; Betrayal and blessedness: explorations of feminine power in The Crucible, A View from the bridge, and After the fall / Iska Alter -- Part 3: Tennessee Williams: Authorizing history: victimization in A Streetcar named desire / Anca Vlasopolos ; "Weak and divided people": Tennessee Williams and the written woman / John Timpane -- Part 4: Edward Albee: What's new at the Zoo?: Rereading Edward Albee's American dream(s) and nightmares / Mickey Pearlman ; Magnified and sanctified: Tiny Alice reconsidered / Naomi Conn Liebler -- Part 5: Sam Shepard: Sam Shepard's spectacle of impossible heterosexuality: Fool for love / Lynda Hart ; Self as other: Sam Shepard's Fool for love and A Lie of the mind / Rosemarie Bank