Vita.

"This study is an investigation of outdoor historical dramas in the eastern United States"--p. 1.

"The selected plays included in this study are: (1) 'The Lost Colony' by Paul Green, 1937, Manteo, North Carolina; (2) 'Unto These Hills' by Kermit Hunter, 1950, Cherokee, North Carolina; (3) 'Horn in the West' by Kermit Hunter, 1952, Boone, North Carolina; (4) 'The Stephen Foster Story' by Paul Green, 1959, Bardstown, Kentucky; (5) 'Honey in the Rock' by Kermit Hunter, 1961, Beckley, West Virginia; (6) 'Legend of Daniel Boone' by Jan Hartman, 1966, Harrodsburg, Kentucky; (7) 'Trumpet in the Land' by Paul Green, 1970, New Philadelphia, Ohio; (8) 'Hatfields & McCoys' by Billy Edd Wheeler, 1970, Beckley, West Virginia; (9) 'Tecumseh!' by Allan W. Eckert, 1973, Chillicothe, Ohio; (10) 'Song of the Cumberland Gap' by Billy Edd Wheeler, 1980, Pineville, Kentucky; (11) 'Lincoln' by Michael Walters, 1982, Harrodsburg, Kentucky; and (12) 'Blue Jacket' by W. L. Mundell, 1982, Xenia, Ohio."--p. 3-4.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University, 1985.

Includes bibliographical references (leaves [372]-388).

Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999. 23 cm.