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This book focuses on the economic and social forces which shaped American theatre throughout its 250-year history. The collection of essays, written by leading theatre historians and critics of the American theatre, represent a variety of methodologies and approaches, and reflect the disparity and diversity of the social and economic issues which have moulded the cultural heritage of America. Arranged chronologically, the volume explores such topics as anti-theatrical legislation in Colonial America; the theatre's response to slavery, prostitution, alcoholism and women's rights; the significance of black American musical comedy; women managers in nineteenth-century American theatre; economic welfare in the Federal Theatre Project; theatre nostalgia during the Reagan era; and issues of multiculturalism in theatre. Alone or as a collection, the essays will stimulate discussions concerning the traditionally held views of America's theatrical heritage.
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Editors Engle and Miller have lined up an impressive array of theater historians for their book on the economic and social forces that helped shape the American theater. Beginning with anti-theater legislation in the Colonial period, and working through slavery, women's rights, popular entertainment, the commercialism of the post WW I period, the Reagan era, and multiculturalism, this work is clearly an impressive array of scholarship. Many of the wide-ranging social, political, and cultural forces that affected the development of the American theater are addressed. There are a few gaps: there is no mention of the 1930s Depression-era communist front theater and the civil rights movement's impact on African American theater is all but ignored. At least two of the essays fail to meet the editor's test of addressing social/economic impact on the American theater. The selected checklist of books on American theater is a plus. The index, although helpful, perpetuates public perception that the House of Representatives Un-American Activities Committee and Senator Joseph McCarthy were the same thing. Nonetheless, the overall strength of many of the essays merits the inclusion of this book in major research libraries, undergraduate libraries, and public libraries with large theater holdings. M. D. Whitlatch; Buena Vista College
目录
List of illustrations |
Notes on the contributors |
PrefaceRon Engle and Tice L. Miller |
Acknowledgements |
Introduction: American theatre history scholarshipOscar G. Brockett |
1 The theatre and its audience: changing modes of social organisation in the American theatreDouglas McDermott |
2 Puritan mercantilism and the politics of anti-theatrical legislation in colonial AmericaPeter A. Davis |
3 'Lady-managers' in nineteenth-century American theatreVera Mowry Roberts |
4 Hustlers in the house: the Bowery Theatre as a mode of historical informationRosemarie K. Bank |
5 Museum theatre and the problem of respectability for mid-century urban AmericansBruce A. McConachie |
6 Social awareness on stage: tensions mounting, 1850-1859Walter J. Meserve |
7 The development of the American theatre programMarvin Carlson |
8 The Hyers Sisters: pioneers in black musical comedyErrol Hill |
9 Money without glory: turn-of-the-century America's women playwrightsFelicia Hardison Londre |
10 'For laughing purposes only': the literature of American popular entertainmentBrooks McNamara |
11 E pluribus unum: Bernhardt's 1905-1906 farewell tourStephen M. Archer |
12 Commercialism glorified and vilified: 1920s theatre and the business worldRonald H. Wainscott |
13 Quicksilver revisited: a portrait of the American stage in the 1930sH. Shattuck |
14 The economic structure of the Federal Theatre ProjectBarry B. Witham |
15 The American Repertory Theatre (1946-1947) and the repertory ideal, a case studyDaniel J. Watermeier |
16 Sojourning in Never Never Land: the idea of Hollywood in recent theatre autobiographiesThomas Postlewait |
17 Consuming the past: commercial American theatre in the Reagan eraAlan Woods |
18 Narrative strategies in selected studies of American theatre economiesMargaret M. Knapp |
19 Multiculturalism versus technoculturalism: its challenge to American theatre and the functions of arts managementStephen Langley |
20 Checklist of selected books on American theatre, 1960-1990Don B. Wilmeth |
Index |