This book covers the history of theater as well as the literature
of America from 1880-1930. The years covered by this volume
features the rise of the popular stage in America from the years
following the end of the Civil War to the Golden Age of Broadway,
with an emphasis on its practitioners, including such diverse
figures as William Gillette, Mrs. Fiske, George M. Cohan, Maude
Adams, David Belasco, George Abbott, Clyde Fitch, Eugene O'Neill,
Texas Guinan, Robert Edmond Jones, Jeanne Eagels, Susan Glaspell,
The Adlers and the Barrymores, Tallulah Bankhead, Philip Barry,
Maxwell Anderson, Mae West, Elmer Rice, Laurette Taylor, Eva Le
Gallienne, and a score of others. Entries abound on plays of all
kinds, from melodrama to the newly-embraced realistic style, ethnic
works (Irish, Yiddish, etc.), and such diverse forms as vaudeville,
circus, minstrel shows, temperance plays, etc. This second edition
of Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Modernism covers the
history of modernist American Theatre through a chronology, an
introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary
section has over 2,000 cross-referenced entries on actors and
actresses, directors, playwrights, producers, genres, notable plays
and theatres. This book is an excellent access point for students,
researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the American
Theater in its greatest era.
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