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Stages of engagement : U.S. theatre and performance from 1898-1949 /
- Title:
- Stages of engagement : U.S. theatre and performance from 1898-1949 /
- Author:
- Polster, Joshua E., author.
- Format:
- Book
- Institution:
- Emerson College
- Contents:
- Introduction -- Colonialism. Setting the stage: performing war and empire for the new U.S. century -- Religion, race and ethnicity. The Pan-American exposition and tragedy onstage -- Critical perspective: owning up: controlling and defining Jewish identity on the early 20th century American stage / Stuart J. Hecht -- Gender and sexuality. Gendered spaces: law and justice in Susan Glaspell's Trifles -- Critical perspective: sex on Broadway: Mae West and The Wales padlock law / Susan D.W. Abbotson -- Economic systems and systems of government. A new approach to revolution: Artef and Hirsch Leckert in the third period -- Critical perspective: the theatre of war: the rise of fascism, diversionary, anti-war and interventionist theatre / James Fisher -- Salesman and the 1930s theatres of social protest.
- Online access:
- No online access
- Library holdings:
-
Emerson Main Stacks
PN2266.3 .P75 2015
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Available