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“These Were the Things That Bounded Me”: A New Examination of Millay’s Dramatic Works

Anderson, Kathryn Elizabeth
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1207239609

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2008, Master of Arts, Case Western Reserve University, English.
The distaste of their author and her little-known career as a playwright has inspired minimal scholarship and virtually no production of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s dramatic works. Millay’s dramas generally failed to extend beyond first printing, and their author is almost never listed among the names of American dramatists. This thesis examines the scholarly and public obscurity of Millay’s playwriting career and explains the textual obstacles that condemned Millay to inferiority as a dramatist, namely language, form, and agenda. In her dramas, the intensity and economy of Millay’s celebrated poetry gave way to irregular expansion and formal uncertainty. However, Millay’s poems and plays are built of many of the same materials and, when successful, exhibit some of the same virtues. Millay’s poems have inspired a legacy of scholarship and celebration – what might her dramas, as relative failures, contribute to Millay studies and to American theatre history?
John Orlock (Advisor)
101 p.
American Literature
Edna St. Vincent Millay; theatre; genre; poetry

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  • Anderson, K. E. (2008). “These Were the Things That Bounded Me”: A New Examination of Millay’s Dramatic Works [Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1207239609

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Anderson, Kathryn. “These Were the Things That Bounded Me”: A New Examination of Millay’s Dramatic Works. 2008. Case Western Reserve University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1207239609.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Anderson, Kathryn. "“These Were the Things That Bounded Me”: A New Examination of Millay’s Dramatic Works." Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1207239609

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