List of illustrations; Notes on the contributors; Preface Ron Engle and
Tice L. Miller; Acknowledgements; Introduction: American theatre history
scholarship Oscar G. Brockett; 1. The theatre and its audience: changing
modes of social organisation in the American theatre Douglas McDermott; 2.
Puritan mercantilism and the politics of anti-theatrical legislation in
colonial America Peter A. Davis; 3. 'Lady-managers' in nineteenth-century
American theatre Vera Mowry Roberts; 4. Hustlers in the house: the Bowery
Theatre as a mode of historical information Rosemarie K. Bank; 5. Museum
theatre and the problem of respectability for mid-century urban Americans
Bruce A. McConachie; 6. Social awareness on stage: tensions mounting,
1850-1859 Walter J. Meserve; 7. The development of the American theatre
program Marvin Carlson; 8. The Hyers Sisters: pioneers in black musical
comedy Errol Hill; 9. Money without glory: turn-of-the-century America's
women playwrights Felicia Hardison Londré; 10. 'For laughing purposes
only': the literature of American popular entertainment Brooks McNamara;
11. E pluribus unum: Bernhardt's 1905-1906 farewell tour Stephen M. Archer;
12. Commercialism glorified and vilified: 1920s theatre and the business
world Ronald H. Wainscott; 13. Quicksilver revisited: a portrait of the
American stage in the 1930s Charles H. Shattuck; 14. The economic structure
of the Federal Theatre Project Barry B. Witham; 15. The American Repertory
Theatre (1946-1947) and the repertory ideal, a case study Daniel J.
Watermeier; 16. Sojourning in Never Never Land: the idea of Hollywood in
recent theatre autobiographies Thomas Postlewait; 17. Consuming the past:
commercial American theatre in the Reagan era Alan Woods; 18. Narrative
strategies in selected studies of American theatre economies Margaret M.
Knapp; 19. Multiculturalism versus technoculturalism: its challenge to
American theatre and the functions of arts management Stephen Langley; 20.
Checklist of selected books on American theatre, 1960-1990 Don B. Wilmeth;
Index.
