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  • Early-twentieth-century frontier dramas on Broadway[electronic resource] :situating the western experience in performing arts /
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    杜威分類號: 792/.097471
    書名/作者: Early-twentieth-century frontier dramas on Broadway : situating the western experience in performing arts // Richard Wattenberg.
    作者: Wattenberg, Richard,
    出版者: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2011.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (267 p.) : : ill.
    標題: Theater - History. - New York (State)
    標題: American drama - History and criticism. - 20th century
    標題: Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
    標題: Myth in literature.
    標題: Broadway (New York, N.Y.) - History.
    標題: West (U.S.) - In literature.
    標題: Fine Arts.
    標題: PERFORMING ARTS - Theater
    標題: Broadway (New York, N.Y.) - Encyclopedias. - History
    標題: West (U.S.) - In literature.
    ISBN: 9780230119147 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 023011914X (electronic bk.)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-258) and index.
    內容註: 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.
    摘要、提要註: 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.
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