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Art, glitter, and glitz : mainstream playwrights and popular theatre in 1920s America
- Title
- Art, glitter, and glitz : mainstream playwrights and popular theatre in 1920s America / edited by Arthur Gewirtz and James J. Kolb.
- Publication
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.
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- Description
- xvi, 243 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Contributions in drama and theatre studies, 0163-3821 ; no. 100
- Uniform Title
- Contributions in drama and theatre studies ; no. 100.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Note
- "Prepared under the auspices of Hofstra University."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-228) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Arthur Gewirtz, James J. Kolb -- Mainstream Playwrights -- (Re)Claiming O'Neill's Strange Interlude as a Modernist Theatre Text / Thomas P. Adler -- Stillborn Future: Dead and Dying Infants and Children as a Secondary Image in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill: An Analysis of the Image in Desire Under the Elms / Linda L. Herr -- "De New Dat's Moiderin' de Old": Oedipal Struggle as Class Conflict in Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape / Julia A. Walker -- Tempest in Black and White: The 1924 Staging of Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings / Glenda Frank -- "Not Enough"? The High Comedy of Philip Barry / Leonard R.N. Ashley -- Philip Barry's Holiday: High Comedy as Morality Play / Harry B. Parker -- The Subway: Sophie as Elmer Rice's Ms. Zero / Cynthia McCown -- "Without Plot, Idea, Hero, or Heroine": The Unlucky Strategy of Sidney Howard's Lucky Sam McCarver / Cynthia McCown -- "Some Kind of Damned Religion": A Reading of What Price Glory? by Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings / Stanley Brodwin -- Baker's "Boys": The Legacy of George Pierce Baker / Lue Morgan Douthit -- Broadway, the Elements of Success: Jed Harris's 1926 Production / E. James Zeiger -- Playwrights and Power: The Dramatists Guild's Struggle for the 1926 Minimum Basic Agreement / T.J. Walsh -- Popular Theatre -- John Barrymore and Company, 1920-1925: American Standard-Bearers of the Shakespeare Company / Michael A. Morrison -- When Actors Were Still Players / Ronald H. Wainscott.
- ISBN
- 0313324670
- 9780313324673
- LCCN
- 2002073467
- OCLC
- ocm50041345
- 50041345
- SCSB-1363533
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library