Early-Twentieth-Century Frontier Dramas on Broadway Situating the Western Experience in Performing Arts

Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of contemporary dramas 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 emb...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wattenberg, Richard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan US 2011, 2011
Series:Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of contemporary dramas 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
Physical Description:280 p online resource
ISBN:9780230119147