Staging the slums, slumming the stage
Subtitle: class, poverty, ethnicity, and sexuality in American theatre, 1890-1916
By: by J. Chris Westgate
Series: Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781137359681
Subjects: American drama; History and criticism; Slums in literature; Immigrants in literature; Urban poor in literature; Theater; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Darnton's lament; title: Modes of staging the slums. "Strange things" from the Bowery: the tourism narrative in slum plays; title: "What the poor of this great city must endure": the sociological narrative in slum plays; title: Slumming destinations on stage. The courage to see the sights of the tenement; title: The spectacle of immigrant neighborhoods; title: Touring the red lights district; title: Case studies in slum plays. "Nothing more infernal": verisimilitude and voyeurism in Salvation Nell; title: "Avoiding the grotesque and offensive": the Zangwill plays.