| Description |
xiv, 365 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Made in England I, circa 1700-1900 -- Clyde Fitch, Mrs. Fiske, Shaw, and Barrie. Comedy: 1900-1915 -- Belasco, the western, and realism. Drama: 1900-1915 -- The art movement, 1910-1920 -- The actors versus the managers, 1919 -- Popular taste, the 1920s -- Genres, the 1920s -- Satirists, the 1920s and 1930s -- "Ah, but are they her own?" the 1930s -- "Griffith used it. Lubitsch used it. And Eisentein's coming around to it." the 1930s -- What has happened so far I -- Toward a national theatre -- What does a theatre do in wartime? 1940-1945 -- And what after? 1945-1949 -- "Where is the man with the dybbuk?" Comedy: the 1950s -- Denying the gas chambers. Drama: the 1950s -- The great American playwright -- What has happened so far II -- Off-Broadway: "Asking what is life is like asking what is a carrot -- a carrot is a carrot!" -- The goodbye audience, the 1960s -- Made in England II -- What has happened so far III -- The me decade |
| Analysis |
Geschichte 1700-1970 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [345]-350 |
| Subject |
Theater -- United States -- History.
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| LC no. |
81000676 |
| ISBN |
0195029593 |
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