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American Drama Introduction Early Development in the 1910s: “Little Theatre Movement” A Renaissance of Drama in the 1920s: Eugene O’Neill’s Bound East for Cardiff (1916); “the founder of the American Drama” Drama of the Depression: Clifford Odets (Waiting for Lefty); Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men) Drama of post-war period: feature of diversity---experimental techniques and Multiethnic drama: Asian-American dramatists; African-American damatists Star Dramatists of 1940s and1950s: Tennessee Williams: The glass Menagerie Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman Star Dramatists in the 1960s: Ed