Twelve Plays

by Joyce Carol Oates

Only a select number of authors have been able to master the art of writing both fiction and drama. This superb collection of twelve plays is exciting evidence that Ms. Oates ranks among that select number. All of the works in this collection are recent, and most have been performed since 1990.Tone ClustersThe EclipseHow Do You Like Your Meat?The Ballad of Love CanalUnder/GroundGreensleevesThe KeyFriday NightBlackI Stand Before You NakedThe Secret MirrorAmerican Holiday

Genres: Plays

416 pages, Paperback

First published November 18, 1991

About the author

Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short story collections The Wheel of Love (1970) and Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel Them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019).
Oates taught at Princeton University from 1978 to 2014, and is the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor Emerita in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing. From 2016 to 2020, she was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she taught short fiction in the spring semesters. She now teaches at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
Oates was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2016.
Pseudonyms: Rosamond Smith and Lauren Kelly.

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