Introduction: the Pulitzer Prize for drama -- Part One: Family life -- 1. Youth in parental conflict -- Look Homeward Angel, 1957-1958 -- Long Day's Journey into Night, 1956-1957 -- The Subject Was Roses, 1964-1965 -- 2. The unmarried woman -- Alison's House, 1930-1931 -- The Old Maid, 1934-1935 -- Miss Lulu Bett, 1920-1921 -- 3. The conflict of the sexes -- Craig's Wife, 1925-1926 -- The Shrike, 1951-1952 -- 4. The drive for generation -- They Knew What They Wanted, 1924-1925 -- Strange Interlude, 1927-1928 -- All the Way Home, 1960-1961 -- Anna Christie, 1921-1922 -- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1954-1955 -- 5. The dysfunctional family -- A Delicate Balance, 1966-1967 -- Part Two: Social protest -- 6. The rebel outsider -- Harvey, 1944-1945 -- Picnic, 1952-1953 -- 7. The self-sacrificers -- Why Marry?, 1917-1918 -- Men in White, 1933-1934 -- 8. The nonconformists -- You Can't Take It With You, 1936-1937 -- The Time of Your Life, 1939-1940 -- 9. Against prejudice -- In Abraham's Bosom, 1926-1927 -- Street Scene, 1928-1929 -- 10. Against war -- Idiot's Delight, 1935-1936 -- There Shall Be No Night, 1940-1941 -- The Diary of Anne Frank, 1955-1956 -- South Pacific, 1949-1950 -- Part Three: Political heroes -- 11. The charismatic historical hero -- Abe Lincoln in Illinois, 1938-1939 -- Fiorello!, 1959-1960 -- 12. The fictional political hero -- Of Thee I Sing, 1931-1932 -- Both Your Houses, 1932-1933 -- State of the Union, 1945-1946 -- Part Four: Morality and survival in a materialistic society -- 13. The agrarian hero -- Beyond the Horizon, 1919-1920 -- Icebound, 1922-1923 -- 14. The capitalist hero -- Death of a Salesman, 1948-1949 -- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, 1961-1962 -- The Teahouse of the August Moon, 1953-1954 -- Part Five: The spiritual condition of humankind -- 15. Hell-Bent fer Heaven, 1923-1924 -- A Streetcar Named Desire, 1947-1948 -- 16. God and humanity -- The Green Pastures, 1929-1930 -- J.B., 1958-1959 -- 17. Life and death -- Our Town, 1937-1938 -- The Skin of Our Teeth, 1942-1943 -- Epilogue: The Pulitzer Prize plays: an evaluation -- Appendix One: Chronologies 1917-1967: the plays -- Appendix Two: Chronologies 1917-1967: the jurors.
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