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  • - Studies from the Modern London Theatre
    av Yael Zarhy-Levo
    551

    Successful plays and playwrights achieve their prominence not simply because of their intrinsic merit but because of the work of mediators. This work demonstrates the processes through which these mediatory practices by key authority figures situate theatrical companies and playwrights within cultural and historical memory.

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    707

    This collection examines the problems and challenges of formulating national theatre histories. The essayists included here provide an international context for national theatre histories as well as studies of individual nations.

  • - The Writing of America's First Play
    av Peter A. Davis
    727

  • - Six Progressive-Era Brothel Dramas
    av Katie N. Johnson
    526,99

    In early twentieth-century US culture, sex sold. The Progressive Era was obsessed with prostitution, sexuality, and the staging of women's changing roles in the modern era. By the 1910s, plays about prostitution had inundated Broadway. Katie N. Johnson recovers six of these plays, presenting them with astute cultural analysis, photographs, and production histories.

  • av Robert Henke
    627

    Whereas previous studies of poverty and early modern theatre have concentrated on England and the criminal rogue,Poverty and Charity in Early Modern Theatre and Performance takes a transnational approach, which reveals a greater range of attitudes and charitable practices regarding the poor than state poor laws and rogue books suggest.

  • - Afrikaners in South African Theatrical and Public Life
    av Megan Lewis
    627

    What does it mean to perform whiteness in the postcolonial era? To answer this question - crucial for understanding the changing meanings of race in the twenty-first century - Megan Lewis examines the ways that members of South Africa's Afrikaner minority have performed themselves into, around, and out of power from the colonial period to the postcolony.

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