Predecessors: Ibsen, Strindberg, Shaw, Brieux, and Heredity From Peas To People:  Theatre and the American Eugenics Movement Experimental Breeding Ground: Susan Glaspell, Mutation, Maternity , and The Verge Branching out From the Family Tree: Bloodlines and Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude A Genealogy of American Theatre: Show Boat , Angelina Weld Grimké's Rachel, and the Black Body

Mendel's Theatre offers a new way of thinking about early twentieth-century American drama by uncovering the rich convergence of heredity theory, the American eugenics movement, and innovative modern drama from the 1890s to 1930.

TAMSEN WOLFF is Assistant Professor of English at Princeton University, USA.