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| Named Person: | John Howard Lawson |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Arthur Gewirtz; James J Kolb |
| ISBN: | 0313324662 9780313324666 |
| OCLC Number: | 49991496 |
| Description: | xvii, 196 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction / Arthur Gewirtz, James J. Kolb -- Part I: Experimenters, rebels, and disparate voices -- Searching for "the big American play": The theatre guild produces John Howard Lawson's Processional / Beverle Bloch -- The idiosyncratic theatre of John Howard Lawson / John D. Shout -- Glitzing the proletariat: John Howard Lawson's plays of the 1920s / Michael C. O'Neill -- Direction by design(er): Robert Edmond Jones and the new Provincetown players / Jane T. Peterson -- Glitter, glitz, and race: The production of Harlem / Freda Scott Giles -- Disparate voices: African American theatre critics of the 1920s / Freda Scott Giles -- Garland Anderson and appearances: The playwright and his play / Alan Kreizenbeck -- The first serious dramas on Broadway by African American playwrights / Jeanne-Marie A. Miller -- Theatre and community: The significance of Howard University's 1920s drama program / Scott Zaluda -- "To doubt is fatal": Eva Le Gallienne and the civic repertory theatre, 1926-1932 / Estelle Aden -- Sophie Treadwell's play Machinal: Strategies of reception and interpretation / Kornelia Tancheva -- Sophie Treadwell's summer with Boleslavsky and lectures for the American Laboratory Theatre / Jerry Dickey -- On "The Verge" of a new form: The cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Susan Glaspell's experiments in The Verge / Steven Frank -- They knew what they wanted: American theatre's use of nonverbal communication codes to marginalize non-native characters in the 1920s / Beverly Bronson Smith -- The Poet Lore plays: A new Chinese voice ... but how new? / Dave Williams -- Part II: Theatre and set design -- Against the tide: Mordecai Gorelik and the New York Theatre of the 1920s - processional, Nirvana, the moon is a gong, and loudspeaker / Anne Fletcher -- "Another revolution to be heard from": Jane Heap and the International Theatre Exposition of 1926 / John Bell -- Architecture for the twentieth century: Imagining the theatre in the 1920s / William F. Condee. |
| Series Title: | Contributions in drama and theatre studies, no. 99 |
| Responsibility: | edited by Arthur Gewirtz and James J. Kolb. |
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- American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- American drama -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
- Lawson, John Howard, -- 1894-1977. -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Experimental drama, American -- History and criticism.
- Theater -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Cultural pluralism in literature.
- Difference (Psychology) in literature.
- African Americans in literature.
- Ethnic groups in literature.
- Minorities in literature.
- Dissenters in literature.