| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
situating the western experience in performing arts |
| Author: |
WattenbergRichard, 1949- |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
| Place of Publication: |
New York |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
2011 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (267 p.)ill. : |
| Series: |
Palgrave studies in theater and performance history |
| Subject: |
Theater - History. - New York (State) - |
| Subject: |
American drama - History and criticism. - 20th century - |
| Subject: |
Frontier and pioneer life in literature. - |
| Subject: |
Myth in literature. - |
| Subject: |
Broadway (New York, N.Y.) - History. - |
| Subject: |
West (U.S.) - In literature. - |
| Subject: |
Fine Arts. - |
| Subject: |
PERFORMING ARTS - Theater - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230119147An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| Notes: |
Description based on print version record. |
| Summary: |
Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of dramas such as Augustus Thomas's Arizona (1900), Owen Wister and Kirke La Shelle's The Virginian (1904), Edwin Milton Royle's The Squaw Man (1905), David Belasco's The Girl of the Golden West (1905), William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide (1906), and Rachel Crothers's The Three of Us (1906) not only indicate the popularity of these plays but also tell us that these plays offered views about the frontier that original audiences could and did embrace. By focusing on how these and other plays represent the intersection of period ideas about the nature of the frontier process on the one hand, with prevailing dramatic conventions and theatre production practices, on the other, Wattenberg sets the frontier perspective offered in these theatrical works within the larger context of late nineteenth and early twentieth century American culture. Despite differences in how these plays translate the frontier experience into stage action, as a group they delineate the parameters of a coalescing frontier discourse that shaped and has continued to shape American art and thought. |
| ISBN: |
9780230119147electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
023011914Xelectronic bk. |
| Content Note: |
pt. 1. The axes of analysis: frontier western discourse and theatre practice The frontier western discourse at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century The turn-of-the-century American theatre context pt. 2. The plays Discipline and spontaneity: Clyde Fitch's The cowboy and the lady and Augustus Thomas's Arizona Drama from novels: John Ermine of the Yellowstone and The Virginian Variations on the frontier myth: Edward Milton Royle's The squaw man and David Belasco's The girl of the golden west From melodrama to realism: William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide and Rachel Crothers's The three of us Conclusion. |