num_pages: 172
description: George Jean Nathan was the first modern American drama critic, the man who created the twentieth-centruy image of the profession. This study is based on research drawn from Nathan's and H. L. Mencken's papers, other archival sources, interviews, and correspondence. It is primarily a study of Nathan's criticism, but there is also material on Nathan's life, other critics, writers Nathan knew and worked with, the world of newspapers and magazines, New York theater, press agents, night clubs, and columnists. There is no other figure that could bring together the world of Broadway and literary culture like this, because there was no one else like George Jean Nathan.
language: English
title: George Jean Nathan and the Making of Modern American Drama Criticism
titlecomplete: George Jean Nathan and the Making of Modern American Drama Criticism
publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press