Introduction -- Colonialism. Setting the stage: performing war and empire for the new U.S. century -- Religion, race and ethnicity. The Pan-American exposition and tragedy onstage -- Critical perspective: owning up: controlling and defining Jewish identity on the early 20th century American stage / Stuart J. Hecht -- Gender and sexuality. Gendered spaces: law and justice in Susan Glaspell's Trifles -- Critical perspective: sex on Broadway: Mae West and The Wales padlock law / Susan C.W. Abbotson -- Economic systems and systems of government. A new approach to revolution: Artef and Hirsch Leckert in the third period -- Critical perspective: the theatre of war: the rise of fascism, diversionary, anti-war and interventionist theatre / James Fisher -- Salesman and the 1930s theatres of social protest.
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