Schwartz Broadway and Corporate Capitalism

The Rise of the Professional-Managerial Class, 1900–1920
2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-62332-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 220 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History

Through an examination of plays, actors, reviews, and audience response of the period, this study traces the development of Broadway as a source of 'mature' American drama, and the simultaneous development of Professional-Managerial Class consciousness and habitus.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schwartz, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. To Stop the World: The Most Stupendous Impossibles 2. Where Do I Get Off At? The Wobblies Spurns the Hairy Ape 3. No Kick Coming: The Romantic Wobbly of Sidney Howard's They Knew What They Wanted 4. Jazzing the Wobblies: John Howard Lawson's Processionals 5. Dead Hand of the Dead: Anderson and Hickerson's Gods of the Lightning 6. "We Even Sing 'em in Jap and Chink": Upton Sinclair's Workers' Theater Contribution 7. You I-Won't Work Harp: I.W.W. Elegy in The Iceman Cometh 8. Postscript: Not Time Yet

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Schwartz is Temporary Assistant Professor of Theatre at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA.