Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-), Richard
Wilbur (1921-), Denise Levertov (1923-), W.S. Merwin (1927-), and Sylvia Plath (1932-1963).
Drama
After Williams and Miller, two contemporary American dramatists stand out:
San Shepard (1943-)
and
August
Wilson (1945-)
. In plays such as
True West
and
Buried Child
, Shepard takes long, hard look at contemporary American
culture. Like so many dramatists, he finds the crucial issues in families, particularly in the secrets harbored there that
result in severe psychological disruptions. Wilson’s plays dramatize African-American life, decade by decade in 20
th
century. Perhaps his best known play is
Fences,
in which a strong but destructively willful man, Troy Maxson, struggles
against the demons of his own past, the White power structure, and his difficulty in expressing his love for those around
him.
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