Staging the slums, slumming the stage : class, poverty, ethnicity, and sexuality in American theatre, 1890-1916 /
Westgate, J. Chris
Staging the slums, slumming the stage : class, poverty, ethnicity, and sexuality in American theatre, 1890-1916 / by J. Chris Westgate - Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 - xii, 278 p. ; 23 cm - Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history . - Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history .
Bibliografia. Índex
Conté: Introduction: Darnton's lament -- Modes of staging the slums. "Strange things" from the Bowery: the tourism narrative in slum plays -- "What the poor of this great city must endure": the sociological narrative in slum plays -- Slumming destinations on stage. The courage to see the sights of the tenement -- The spectacle of immigrant neighborhoods -- Touring the red lights district -- Case studies in slum plays. "Nothing more infernal": verisimilitude and voyeurism in Salvation Nell -- "Avoiding the grotesque and offensive": the Zangwill plays
9781137359681
2902526
Teatre nord-americà--Història i crítica--S. XX
Barraquisme en la literatura
Immigrants en la literatura
Pobres urbans en la literatura
Teatre--Història--Nova York--S. XX
Broadway (Nova York)--Història
792(73)"1890/1916"
Staging the slums, slumming the stage : class, poverty, ethnicity, and sexuality in American theatre, 1890-1916 / by J. Chris Westgate - Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 - xii, 278 p. ; 23 cm - Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history . - Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history .
Bibliografia. Índex
Conté: Introduction: Darnton's lament -- Modes of staging the slums. "Strange things" from the Bowery: the tourism narrative in slum plays -- "What the poor of this great city must endure": the sociological narrative in slum plays -- Slumming destinations on stage. The courage to see the sights of the tenement -- The spectacle of immigrant neighborhoods -- Touring the red lights district -- Case studies in slum plays. "Nothing more infernal": verisimilitude and voyeurism in Salvation Nell -- "Avoiding the grotesque and offensive": the Zangwill plays
9781137359681
2902526
Teatre nord-americà--Història i crítica--S. XX
Barraquisme en la literatura
Immigrants en la literatura
Pobres urbans en la literatura
Teatre--Història--Nova York--S. XX
Broadway (Nova York)--Història
792(73)"1890/1916"