Early-Twentieth-Century Frontier Dramas on Broadway

Situating the Western Experience in Performing Arts

R. Wattenberg (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

267 Seiten

2011 | 1st ed. 2011
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-29376-6 (ISBN)

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Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of contemporary dramas not only indicate the popularity of these plays but also tell us that these plays offered views about the frontier that original audiences could and did embrace.

RICHARD WATTENBERG Professor of Theatre Arts at Portland State University, USA.

PART I: THE AXES OF ANALYSIS: FRONTIER WESTERN DISCOURSE AND THEATRE PRACTICE The Frontier Western Discourse at the Turn of the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century The Turn-of-the-Century American Theatre Context PART II: THE PLAYS Discipline and Spontaneity: Clyde Fitch's The Cowboy and the Lady and Augustus Thomas's Arizona Drama from Novels: John Ermine of the Yellowstone and The Virginian Variations on the Frontier Myth: Edward Milton Royle's The Squaw Man and David Belasco's The Girl of the Golden West From Melodrama to Realism: William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide and Rachel Crothers's The Three of Us

Erscheinungsdatum	28.05.2020
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
Zusatzinfo	XI, 267 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	America • Drama • Novel • Theatre
ISBN-10	1-349-29376-8 / 1349293768
ISBN-13	978-1-349-29376-6 / 9781349293766
Zustand	Neuware