Art, Glitter, and Glitz

Mainstream Playwrights and Popular Theatre in 1920s America
Herausgeber: Gewirtz, Arthur; Kolb, James J.

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Produktbeschreibung

The theatre and drama of the 1920s reflects a great synergy of art, glitter, and glitz-a decade of experimentation and incubation for mainstream American playwrights coexisting with important revivals of European playwrights and Shakespeare, a flourishing commercial theatre, and the vibrant worlds of burlesque, musical comedy, Revues and Follies. The 22 essays gathered by Gewitz and Kolb reflect recent scholarship and research, including several provocative, new readings of the plays of Eugene O'Neill, contrasting essays for and against the significance of Philip Barry, and considerations of less well-known plays by Elmer Rice and Sidney Howard. Essays also address the continuing relevance of Anderson and Stallings' What Price Glory?, the impact of George Pierce Baker on the playwrights of the 1920s, an analysis of the commercial success, Broadway, and a thoroughly detailed account of the Dramatists Guild and its negotiation of a minimum basic agreement. Essays on the popular theatre cover an extraordinary gamut from the popularization of Shakespeare in the hands of John Barrymore to the contrasting acting styles of Jeanne Eagels and Pauline Lord, the one-night Revue presented by members of the Algonquin Circle, grand-guignol, Ring Lardner on Broadway, the Ziegfeld Follies, downtown burlesque, the travesty act of Barbette, the production history of A. H. Woods, and the early musical comedy of Rodgers and Hart. An important resource for scholars, students, and other researchers involved with 20th-century American theatre and drama.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 560g
• ISBN-13: 9780313324673
• ISBN-10: 0313324670
• Artikelnr.: 21433846

Autorenporträt

ARTHUR GEWIRTZ is Associate Professor of English Emeritus at Hofstra University. Among his earlier publications is Restoration Adaptations of Early 17th-Century Comedies. JAMES J. KOLB is Professor of Drama at Hofstra University. He is a frequent stage director and a regular lecturer on American musical theatre.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by Arthur Gewirtz and James J. Kolb Mainstream Playwrights
(Re)Claiming O'Neill's Strange Interlude As a Modernist Theatre Text by
Thomas R. Adler Stillborn Future: Dead and Dying Infants and Children as a
"Secondary Image" in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill: An Analysis of the Image
in Desire Under the Elms by Linda L. Herr "De New Dat's Moiderin' de Old":
Oedipal Struggle as Class Conflict in Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape by
Julia Walker Tempest in Black and White: The 1924 Staging of Eugene
O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings by Glenda Frank "Not Enough"?: The
High Comedy of Philip Barry by Leonard Ashley Philip Barry's Holiday: High
Comedy as Morality Play by Harry B. Parker The Subway: Sophie as Elmer
Rice's Ms. Zero by Cynthia McCown "Without a Plot, Idea, Hero, or Heroine":
The Unlikely Strategy of Sidney Howard's Lucky Sam McCarver by Cynthia
McCown "Some Kind of Damned Religion": A Reading of What Price Glory? by
Maxwell Andersen and Laurence Stallings by Stanley Brodwin Baker's "Boys":
The Legacy of George Pierce Baker by Lue Morgan Douthit Broadway, The
Elements of Success: An Analysis of Jed Harris's 1926 Production of the
Play by Philip Dunning and George Abbott by E. James Zeiger Playwrights and
Power: The Dramatists Guild's Struggle for the 1926 Minimum Basic
Aggreement by T. J. Walsh Popular Theatre John Barrymore & Company,
1920-25: American Standard-Bearers of the Shakespeare Company by Michael A.
Morrison When Actors Were Still Players by Ronald H. Wainscott No Sirree! A
One Night Stand with the Algonquin's "Vicious Circle" by Jay Malarcher The
Grand-Guignol in New York City: October-November, 1923: Violence Fails to
Draw an Audience by John M. Callahan The Other Worlds of Ring Lardner:
Popular Entertainment and the Legitimate Theatre by Richard Pioreck
Feathers, Finals, and Frou-Frou: Florenz Ziegfeld's Exoticized Follies
Girls by Ann Marie McEntee Gags, Girls, and Guffaws: Burlesque in Downtown
New York in the 1920s by William Green Barbette: That Daring Young [Wo]Man
on the Flying Trapeze by Joe E. Jeffreys A. H. Woods, Producer: A Thrill a
Minute, a Laugh a Second! by Julian M. Kaufman The Girl Friends: Lew Fields
and the Early Musicals of Rodgers, Hart, and Fields by Jason Rubin
Bibliography Index