Abstract
To THE SWEDISH CRITICS American drama is a twentieth-century phenomenon. Earlier American dramatists are totally unknown in Sweden, dramatists like James A. Heme, Bronson Howard, and Steele Mackaye who took their dramatic themes from the Civil War, or turned their work into liberal attacks on current social problems. When American dramatic products finally gained ground "in Sweden, it was not these early, often awkward but honest dramatic attempts that became associated with American theater but rather those elegant, superficially realistic, or melodramatic plays that announced Belasco's era on Broadway.
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