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  1. Postwar Realistic Theater
    1. Background: The Postwar Era
    2. American Selective Realism
    3. The "Angry Young Men" In England & Documentary Drama In Germany
  2. Experimentation And Departures From Realism: 1945 To 1980
    1. Existentialism And Theater Of The Absurd
    2. Experimental Theater
      1. Happenings, Multimedia, And New Technology
      2. Environmental Theater
    3. Postwar Eclectics
  3. Developments In Postwar American Theater
    1. African American Theater
      1. African-American Theater In The Nineteenth Century
      2. African-American Theater From 1900 To 1950
      3. African-American Theater Since 1950
    2. Musical Theater
      1. Antecedents
      2. American Musicals From 1900 To 1940
      3. The High Point Of American Musicals
      4. American Musicals Since 1965
    3. Alternatives To Commercial Theater
      1. Regional Theater
      2. Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, And Alternative Regional Theaters
      3. Two Contemporary American Playwrights With Roots In Alternative Theater
        1. Sam Shepard
        2. David Mamet
  4. Summary







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