| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
x, 301 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : America defined and refined / William W. Demastes -- The savage other : "Indianizing" and performance in nineteenth-century American culture / Rosemarie K. Bank -- Defining faith : theatrical reactions to pro-slavery Christianity in antebellum America / Amy E. Hughes -- Negotiating a new identity : Irish Americans and the variety theatre in the 1860s / Susan Kattwinkel -- Drama and cultural pluralism in the America of Susan Glaspell's Inheritors / Noelia Hernando-Real -- Beneath the horizon : pipe dreams, identity, and capital in Eugene O'Neill's first Broadway play / Jeffrey Eric Jenkins -- Vernacularizing Brecht : the political theatre of the New Deal / Ilka Saal -- Let freedom ring : Mordecai Gorelik's politicized stage designs / Anne Fletcher -- Choreographing America : redefining American ballet in the age of consensus / Andrea Harris -- Arthur Miller : in memoriam / Christopher Bigsby -- Menageries, melting pots, movies : Tennessee on America / Janet V. Haedicke -- Facts on trial : documentary theatre and Zoot suit / Jacqueline O'Connor -- "The ground on which I stand is I, too, am America" : African American cycle dramatists, dramas, and the voice of inclusion / Ladrica Menson-Furr -- My Uncle Sam in consumer society : Len Jenkin and the death of Death of a salesman / Steve Feffer -- From paradise to parasite : information theory, noise, and disequilibrium in John Guare's Six degrees of separation / Mike Vanden Heuvel -- Not "very Steven Spielberg"? Angels in America on film / Deborah R. Geis -- Reflections in a pool : Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses and post-9/11 New York City / Andrea Nouryeh -- An American echo : Suzan-Lori Parks's The America play and James Scruggs's Disposable man / Robert Vorlicky. |
| Subject |
Theater -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Theater -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Demastes, William W.
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Fischer, Iris Smith.
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| ISBN |
1403974748 (alk. paper) |
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9781403974747 (alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 2450451 |
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AU@ 000040308590 |
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IG# 9781403974747 |
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