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Author:

Wattenberg, Richard, 1949-

Title:

Early-twentieth-century frontier dramas on Broadway : situating the western experience in performing arts / Richard Wattenberg.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

267 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Theater--New York--New York--History.
American drama--20th century--History and criticism.
Broadway (New York, N.Y.)--History.
Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
West (U.S.)--In literature.
Myth in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Pt. 1. 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 -- Pt. 2. 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 -- Conclusion.

Series:

Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history

ISBN:

0230111440 (alk. paper)
9780230111448 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)668986132

LCCN:

2010040327

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)