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Contemporary American playwrights have established an extensive and multisided rapport with popular culture. The accommodation of popular icons on stage and the results this framing yields constitute this work's primary interests and aims. The first chapter focuses on plays that examine the mythological dimension of popular icons. Attention is given to the particular nature and validity of celluloid icons and rock idols. In the second chapter, the discussion concerns plays that seek to expose the hyper-real terrain of tele-life where distinctions between the private and the public, the subject and the object, the authentic and the simulacrum are abandoned and erased. The third chapter examines the efforts of certain playwrights to expose the eccentricities of the present moment by drawing parallels between the current socio-cultural scene and the properties of pulp fiction icons as well as the imagery of comics and cartoons. The work concludes with the works of three playwrights who attempt to recover and reclaim the value of the cultural index of the American West. Konstantinos Blatanis is an independent scholar in Greece.
