Early-twentieth-century frontier dramas on Broadway
Subtitle: situating the western experience in  performing arts
By: Richard Wattenberg
Series: Palgrave studies in theater and performance history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780230111448
Subjects: History; In literature; Theater; Myth in literature; History and criticism; American drama; Frontier and pioneer life in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-258) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. The axes of analysis: frontier western discourse and theatre practice; title: The frontier western discourse at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century; title: The turn-of-the-century American theatre context; title: Pt. 2. The plays; title: Discipline and spontaneity: Clyde Fitch's The cowboy and the lady and Augustus Thomas's Arizona; title: Drama from novels: John Ermine of the Yellowstone and The Virginian; title: Variations on the frontier myth: Edward Milton Royle's The squaw man and David Belasco's The girl of the golden west; title: From melodrama to realism: William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide and Rachel Crothers's The three of us; title: Conclusion.