Date of Award

5-1935

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Literatures, Languages, and Cultures

First Advisor

Thomas P. Whelan

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis shall not be t.o prove, that the American one-act play is the only possible type of drama that has a tendency toward a national drama, but rather to bring to light that the American one-act play, through the influence, which it exerted on the Little Theatre, is the driving force, which strives toward this national dramatic movement. That there is a laxity of and a need for a folk­ drama and folk-theatre is taken as an indisputable fact.

The one-act playwrights and their one-act plays are discussed, not from the aspect of a criticism of the theme and technique, but rather as influences toward the establishment of a native drama, through the medium of the Lit­tle Theatre. The theme is criticized only from the stand­point of its compliance with the standards set for a nation­ al drama. This same criticism is applied to technique.

Many authors and critics have realized the need of a national drama, but their opinions see:m to be of a varied nature. As a result, this thesis, is the accumulation of knowledge, gleaned from different authors, who believed that the American one-act play exerted and still exerts a definite influence on the Little Theatre, to the result that the American one-act play, through the medium of the Little Theatre, is a means to the end,--a national drama.

Comments

A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfill­ment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts

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