Stages of engagement : U.S. theatre and performance from 1898-1949 / Joshua E. Polster.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Polster, Joshua E. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Colonialism
  • 1. Setting the Stage: Performing War and Empire for the New US Century
  • pt. II Religion, Race, and Ethnicity
  • 2. Pan-American Exposition and Tragedy Onstage
  • Critical Perspective
  • Owning Up: Controlling and Defining Jewish Identity on the Early Twentieth-Century American Stage / Stuart J. Hecht
  • pt. III Gender and Sexuality
  • 3. Gendered Spaces: Law and Justice in Susan Glaspell's Trifles
  • Critical Perspective
  • Sex on Broadway: Mae West and the Wales Padlock Law / Susan C.W. Abbotson
  • pt. IV Economic Systems and Systems of Government
  • 4. New Approach to Revolution: Artef and Hirsch Leckert in the Third Period
  • Critical Perspective
  • The Theatre of War: The Rise of Fascism and Diversionary, Anti-War, and Interventionist Theatre / James Fisher
  • 5. Salesman and the 1930s Theatres of Social Protest.