Early-Twentieth-Century Frontier Dramas on Broadway

Situating the Western Experience in Performing Arts
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-349-29376-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 267 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 356 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wattenberg, R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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