American Theatre : A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama , 1869–1914 . New York : Oxford University Press , 1994 . American Theatre : A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama , 1914–1930 . New York : Oxford University Press , 1995 .
Volume One of a unique three-volume history covering all aspects of American theatre.
... American Drama of the Twentieth Century , which provides a chronologically arranged assessment , and Thomas P. Adler's American Drama 1940–1960 , whose study , despite its 1960 cut - off date , discusses all of Williams's theatre .
This volume places American theater in its social, economic, and political context.
The Cambridge History of American Theatre