Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The work of the New Deal and the Federal Theatre Project -- The New Deal work ethic -- Acting work and FTP work -- Backstage comedies -- An overview of backstage comedies -- The torchbearers -- Room service -- A moral entertainment -- Middle-class work comedies -- Middle-class labor and the New Deal -- Ah, wilderness! -- To the ladies -- Comedies of chance -- Chance, culture, and government -- The show-off -- Mississippi rainbow -- Con artist comedies -- The confidence artist and society -- The Milky Way -- Help yourself -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary:
"This book examines how comic plays of the Federal Theatre Project challenged work norms promoted by the federal government during the Great Depression"-- Provided by publisher.
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