US Theatre and Performance from 1898 to 1949 is a compelling and wonderfully varied account of the relationship between theatre in the United States and the social, cultural and political forces that shaped it during one of the most formative periods in the nation's history. Joshua Polster applies key thematic perspectives - Colonialism, Ethnicity and Race, Gender and Sexuality, Economic Systems, and Systems of Government - to seminal moments in US history. In doing so he explores the ways in which the theatre has responded to these turning points, through the work of some of its principal dramatists, directors, designers and theatre companies.…mehr
US Theatre and Performance from 1898 to 1949 is a compelling and wonderfully varied account of the relationship between theatre in the United States and the social, cultural and political forces that shaped it during one of the most formative periods in the nation's history. Joshua Polster applies key thematic perspectives - Colonialism, Ethnicity and Race, Gender and Sexuality, Economic Systems, and Systems of Government - to seminal moments in US history. In doing so he explores the ways in which the theatre has responded to these turning points, through the work of some of its principal dramatists, directors, designers and theatre companies.
Joshua E. Polster is Associate Professor of Theatre at Emerson College. His publications include Reinterpreting the Plays of Arthur Miller, a critical edition of Miller's A Memory of Two Mondays, and The Routledge Anthology of US Drama 1898-1949.
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Introduction 1. "Setting the Stage: War and Empire" 2. "The Pan-American Exposition and Tragedy Onstage" U.S. Immigration Ethnic Theatres and Vaudeville by Stuart Hecht 3. "Gendered Spaces: Law and Justice in Susan Glaspell's Trifles" The Sexual Revolution and Broadway by Sue Abbotson 4. A New Approach to Revolution: Artef and Hirsch Leckert in the Third Period The Theatre of War: The Rise of Fascism Anti-War and Interventionist Theatre by Jim Fisher 5. Salesman and the 1930s Theatres of Social Protest
Introduction 1. "Setting the Stage: War and Empire" 2. "The Pan-American Exposition and Tragedy Onstage" U.S. Immigration Ethnic Theatres and Vaudeville by Stuart Hecht 3. "Gendered Spaces: Law and Justice in Susan Glaspell's Trifles" The Sexual Revolution and Broadway by Sue Abbotson 4. A New Approach to Revolution: Artef and Hirsch Leckert in the Third Period The Theatre of War: The Rise of Fascism Anti-War and Interventionist Theatre by Jim Fisher 5. Salesman and the 1930s Theatres of Social Protest
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