Art, Glitter, and Glitz: Mainstream Playwrights and Popular Theatre in 1920s AmericaArthur Gewirtz, James Kolb The theatre and drama of the 1920s reflects a great synergy of art, glitter, and glitz—a decade of experimentation and incubation for mainstream American playwrights coexisting with important revivals of European playwrights and Shakespeare, a flourishing commercial theatre, and the vibrant worlds of burlesque, musical comedy, Revues and Follies. |
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... scene 5. Although the play's setting has been symbolic throughout — as illus- trated by the cramped forecastle , stokehold , and jail cell which represent Yank's ideological imprisonment - it is only in scene 5 , when Yank encounters ...
... scene to the first night audience . The stage manager , Harold McGee , read the prologue for the duration of the run . At the premiere , police ringed the theatre , and steelworkers were hired to guard the dressing rooms and streets ...
... scene , indeed in the first page of Broadway , its authors give us a glimpse of the kind of intricate detail that permeates the play - detail drawn from action , language , and historical context . The backstage situation at the ...
Contents
ReClaiming ONeills Strange Interlude as | 3 |
Dead and Dying Infants | 11 |
Oedipal Struggle | 19 |
Copyright | |
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