Download or read book Family, Drama, and American Dreams written by Tom Scanlan and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1978-01-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American drama is chiefly a drama of realistic family plays and its conventions revolve around the antagonistic impulses of security and freedom. Scanlan asserts that America's best plays are plays of family life and that they re-enact dilemmas of personal psychology and family structure.