Class Divisions on the Broadway Stage: The Staging and Taming of the I.W.W.
Examining twenty-five years of theatre history, this book covers the major plays that feature representations of the Industrial Workers of the World. American class movement and class divisions have long been reflected on the Broadway stage and here Michael Schwartz presents a fresh look at the conflict between labor and capital.
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Class Divisions on the Broadway Stage: The Staging and Taming of the I.W.W.
Examining twenty-five years of theatre history, this book covers the major plays that feature representations of the Industrial Workers of the World. American class movement and class divisions have long been reflected on the Broadway stage and here Michael Schwartz presents a fresh look at the conflict between labor and capital.
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Class Divisions on the Broadway Stage: The Staging and Taming of the I.W.W.

Class Divisions on the Broadway Stage: The Staging and Taming of the I.W.W.

by M. Schwartz
Class Divisions on the Broadway Stage: The Staging and Taming of the I.W.W.

Class Divisions on the Broadway Stage: The Staging and Taming of the I.W.W.

by M. Schwartz

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Overview

Examining twenty-five years of theatre history, this book covers the major plays that feature representations of the Industrial Workers of the World. American class movement and class divisions have long been reflected on the Broadway stage and here Michael Schwartz presents a fresh look at the conflict between labor and capital.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349469505
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 07/10/2014
Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
Edition description: 1st ed. 2014
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michael Schwartz is Temporary Assistant Professor of Theatre at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Table of Contents

1. To Stop the World: The Most Stupendous Impossibles 2. Where Do I Get Off At? The Wobblies Spurns the Hairy Ape 3. No Kick Coming: The Romantic Wobbly of Sidney Howard's They Knew What They Wanted 4. Jazzing the Wobblies: John Howard Lawson's Processionals 5. Dead Hand of the Dead: Anderson and Hickerson's Gods of the Lightning 6. We Even Sing 'em in Jap and Chink: Upton Sinclair's Workers' Theater Contribution 7. You I-Won't Work Harp: I.W.W. Elegy in The Iceman Cometh 8. Postscript: Not Time Yet
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