The A to Z of American Theater: Modernism

The A to Z of American Theater: Modernism

The A to Z of American Theater: Modernism

The A to Z of American Theater: Modernism

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Overview

The 50-year period from 1880 to 1929 is the richest era for theater in American history, certainly in the great number of plays produced and artists who contributed significantly, but also in the centrality of theater in the lives of Americans. As the impact of European modernism began to gradually seep into American theater during the 1880s and quite importantly in the 1890s, more traditional forms of theater gave way to futurism, symbolism, surrealism, and expressionism. American playwrights like Eugene O'Neill, George Kelly, Elmer Rice, Philip Barry, and George S. Kaufman ushered in the Golden Age of American drama. The A to Z of American Theater: Modernism focuses on legitimate drama, both as influenced by European modernism and as impacted by the popular entertainment that also enlivened the era. This is accomplished through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced entries on plays; music; playwrights; great performers like Maude Adams, Otis Skinner, Julia Marlowe, and E.H. Sothern; producers like David Belasco, Daniel Frohman, and Florenz Ziegfeld; critics; architects; designers; and costumes.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780810870475
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 09/02/2009
Series: The A to Z Guide Series , #97
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 616
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

James Fisher is professor of theater and head of the theatre department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Felicia Hardison LondrZ is Curators' Professor of Theater at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Honorary co-founder of Heart of America Shakespeare Festival.
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