Routledge Anthology of Us Drama: 1898-1949 - 1898 - 1949

Zusatztext "This volume distinguishes itself by coupling an effective and diverse survey of US drama with invaluable critical and primary sources. Its supplementary materials provide a rich context for the plays and performances included! and are helpfully accessible to undergraduate students."Lindsay Hunter! SUNY - Buffalo! USA"What makes The Routledge?Anthology of US Drama 1898-1949 extraordinary are the supplemental materials - the "artifacts of culture" - which contextualize our performance practices within a given moment without relying on the mythologizing meta-narratives of the progression of our dramatic art. Rather! Polster offers an interdisciplinary approach that provides a new direction for the ways in which we can teach (and learn) about our dramatic arts and ourselves. This?anthology may be the most important! at the very least most comprehensive! collection of plays! essays! historical records! and artifacts focused on this era."?John Patrick Bray! University of Georgia! USA Zusammenfassung The first half of the Twentieth Century was a vibrant period for U.S. theatre. As the United Statesemerged as a significant military! economic! political and cultural power! so its theatre began to distinguish itself from the prevailing European model. The plays and dramatic textsinthis anthology demonstrate the vital and volatile relationship between U.S. theatre! its society! and the ways in which that theatre has both supported and challenged prevailing systems of thought and action.This collection is organized aroundkey thematic perspectives from colonialism to psychoanalysis! viewing the artistic output of this era through the socio-political events and controversies that shaped it. Each play is accompanied by a critical commentary from a leading scholar and a set of archive source materials! including playbills! production shots! reviews! essays! poems! newspaper articles and official documents. These supplements bring to life the rich and diverse theatre cultures that operated in the United States during this period andexplore the essential ways that these cultural artifacts engaged with the national debates that surrounded them.The plays themselves both support and challenge the existing canon of U.S. dramatic literature; a selection that speaks not only to aesthetic innovation! but also to the critical moments of political change and national definition that helped to shape the United States. From Miller! Williams and O'Neill to Angelina Grimké! David Belasco and Mae West! this is the ideal collection for any course in U.S. theatre. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Joshua PolsterPart 1 - ColonialismColonial and Native Rule in Performance1. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show2. Madame Butterfly - David Belasco3. The Pan-American Exposition4. The Great Divide - William Vaughan MoodyPart 2 - Race and EthnicityMinstrels and Tom Shows5. Uncle Tom's CabinAnti-Lynching Plays6. Rachel - Angelina Weld GrimkéImmigration and Vaudeville7. Vaudeville Humour - Ed Lowry8. I'm Going to Mexico - Netty and Jesus Rodriguez9. Te AtaPart 3 - Gender and SexualityFeminism and Feminist Theatre10. Trifles - Susan Glaspell11. How Poor Women Prostitute Themselves - Luisa CapetilloThe Sexual Revolution and Broadway12. Sex - Mae West13. Machinal - Sophie TreadwellPart 4 - Economic StructureThe Great Depression and the Workers' Theatre Movement14. Scottsboro! Limited - Langston Hughes15. Waiting for Lefty - Clifford OdetsThe New Deal and the Federal Theatre Project16. The Revolt of the Beavers - Oscar Saul and Lou Lantz17. One Third of a Nation - Arthur ArentPart 5 - Systems of GovernmentThe Rise of Fascism! Isolationist and Interventionist Theatre18. It Can't Happen Here - Sinclair Lewis and John C. Moffitt19. The Skin of Our Teeth - Thornton Wilder20. Watch on the Rhine - Lillian HellmannPart 6 - Queer and Psyc...

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• Authors: Joshua Polster, Joshua (EDT) Polster, Joshua (Emerson College Polster
• Assisted by: Joshua Polster (Editor), Joshua (Emerson College Polster (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2016
• EAN: 9781138018365
• ISBN: 978-1-138-01836-5
• No. of pages: 1002
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama