Mendel's theatre
Subtitle: heredity, eugenics, and early twentieth-century American drama
By: Tamsen Wolff.
Series: Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Eugenics in literature; Heredity in literature; Race in literature; Eugenics -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Literature and science -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Other titles: Mendel's theater
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Predecessors : Ibsen, Strindberg, Shaw, Brieux, and heredity; title: From peas to people : theatre and the American eugenics movement; title: Experimental breeding ground: Susan Glaspell, mutation, maternity, and The verge; title: Branching out from the family tree : bloodlines and Eugene O'Neill's Strange interlude; title: A genealogy of American theatre : Show boat, Angelina Weld Grimké's Rachel, and the black body.