Early-twentieth-century frontier dramas on Broadway

situating the western experience in performing arts

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Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Pages
267

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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-258) and index.

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New York
Series
Palgrave studies in theater and performance history

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
792/.097471
Library of Congress
PN2277.N5 W38 2011, PN843-PN846PN770-PN7

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267 p. :
Number of pages
267

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Open Library
OL24881260M
ISBN 13
9780230111448
LCCN
2010040327
OCLC/WorldCat
668986132

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