The American Stage and the Great Depression
Subtitle: A Cultural History of the Grotesque (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 12, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780521033626
Subjects: Theatre, drama; Performing Arts; Plays / Drama; Performing Arts/Dance; USA; American; Drama; Theater - General; American drama--20th century--History and cri; American drama--20th century--History and criticism; Drama-American; Literary Criticism / Drama; Performing Arts / Theater / General; Performing Arts-Theater - General
First sentence: IN A POLITICAL SPEECH OF 1934, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt looked back on the events of recent history and declared that the stock market crash had brought a just but bitter end to "the crazy decade" of 1919-29.