This collection of twenty new essays explores both obscure and famous plays dealing with economic issues. Beginning with the Industrial Revolution, the text moves from Marx's theories to Wall Street speculation, nineteenth century immigration issues, the excesses of the Gilded Age and the 1920s, the Great Depression, World War II and millennial economic challenges.
This collection of twenty new essays explores both obscure and famous plays dealing with economic issues. Beginning with the Industrial Revolution, the text moves from Marx's theories to Wall Street speculation, nineteenth century immigration issues, the excesses of the Gilded Age and the 1920s, the Great Depression, World War II and millennial economic challenges.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
James Fisher is professor of theatre and head of the theatre department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of several books on theatre.
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Table of Contents Introduction JAMES FISHER Friedrich Engels, Lewis Henry Morgan, Capitalism, and Theatre-Making in Nineteenth-Century America ROSEMARIE K. BANK "Money Is Our God Here": The Comedy of Capital in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Money and Philip Barry's Holiday JAMES FISHER Amateur Economies: Widowhood and Marriage for Amateur Performers EILEEN CURLEY Gold Rush: McTeague, Frank Norris, and Neal Bell ROBERT F. GROSS Money in Chekhov's Plays LAURENCE SENELICK Jacob Gordin and Jewish Socialism in America VALLERI J. HOHMAN The Music Master and the Money Makers FELICIA HARDISON LONDRÉ Performing "Amerikee": Rural Caricature and the George Washingtons of Percy MacKaye and Jacques Copeau MARK EVANS BRYAN I Am Your Worker/I Am Your Slave: Dehumanization, Capitalist Fantasy, and Communist Anxiety in Karel Tapek's R.U.R. PAUL MENARD Home Away from Home: Greed in Marco Millions THIERRY DUBOST Babbitting Broadway: Satire, the Gospel of Success, and Americanization of Expressionism JAMES M. CHERRY A New Approach to Revolution: Artef and Hirsch Leckert in the Third Period JOSHUA POLSTER "Television's Comin' In, Sure as Death": The Strange Consumer Paradise of Clifford Odets' Paradise Lost CHRISTOPHER J. HERR Back-Alleys to Basements: Narratives of Class and (Il)legal Abortion on the American Stage CHRISTINE WOODWORTH Peter Weiss's The Investigation: The Marxist View of the Holocaust GENE A. PLUNKA Caryl Churchill's Top Girls: Postmodern Complicity and the Economics of Thatcherism DANIEL KEITH JERNIGAN Excessive Greed, Excessive Visions: Brenton and Hare's Brassneck and Pravda JOHN E. O'CONNOR The Absence of Wealth in Recent British Plays about Business AMELIA HOWE KRITZER Between Want and Wealth: The Failure of Upward Mobility in José Rivera's Early Plays J. CHRIS WESTGATE Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train and Under America: How Mainstream Reviews Represent the Guilty and Obscure the Economics of the U.S. Prison Industry JACOB JUNTUNEN About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Introduction JAMES FISHER Friedrich Engels, Lewis Henry Morgan, Capitalism, and Theatre-Making in Nineteenth-Century America ROSEMARIE K. BANK "Money Is Our God Here": The Comedy of Capital in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Money and Philip Barry's Holiday JAMES FISHER Amateur Economies: Widowhood and Marriage for Amateur Performers EILEEN CURLEY Gold Rush: McTeague, Frank Norris, and Neal Bell ROBERT F. GROSS Money in Chekhov's Plays LAURENCE SENELICK Jacob Gordin and Jewish Socialism in America VALLERI J. HOHMAN The Music Master and the Money Makers FELICIA HARDISON LONDRÉ Performing "Amerikee": Rural Caricature and the George Washingtons of Percy MacKaye and Jacques Copeau MARK EVANS BRYAN I Am Your Worker/I Am Your Slave: Dehumanization, Capitalist Fantasy, and Communist Anxiety in Karel Tapek's R.U.R. PAUL MENARD Home Away from Home: Greed in Marco Millions THIERRY DUBOST Babbitting Broadway: Satire, the Gospel of Success, and Americanization of Expressionism JAMES M. CHERRY A New Approach to Revolution: Artef and Hirsch Leckert in the Third Period JOSHUA POLSTER "Television's Comin' In, Sure as Death": The Strange Consumer Paradise of Clifford Odets' Paradise Lost CHRISTOPHER J. HERR Back-Alleys to Basements: Narratives of Class and (Il)legal Abortion on the American Stage CHRISTINE WOODWORTH Peter Weiss's The Investigation: The Marxist View of the Holocaust GENE A. PLUNKA Caryl Churchill's Top Girls: Postmodern Complicity and the Economics of Thatcherism DANIEL KEITH JERNIGAN Excessive Greed, Excessive Visions: Brenton and Hare's Brassneck and Pravda JOHN E. O'CONNOR The Absence of Wealth in Recent British Plays about Business AMELIA HOWE KRITZER Between Want and Wealth: The Failure of Upward Mobility in José Rivera's Early Plays J. CHRIS WESTGATE Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train and Under America: How Mainstream Reviews Represent the Guilty and Obscure the Economics of the U.S. Prison Industry JACOB JUNTUNEN About the Contributors Index
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