Working in the Wings : New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Table -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Work of Play in Performance -- Part One - Working Conditions -- 1. Driving Race Work: The UAW, Detroit, and Discrimination for Everybody! -- 2. Working Together: The Partnership of Les Waters and Annie Smart -- 3. Advertising and the Commercial Spirit: Cataloging Nineteenth-Century Scenic Studio Practices -- 4. Don't Quit Your Day Job: Situating Extratheatrical Employment in the Performance Archive -- Part Two - Inscription, Erasure, and Recovery: Palimpsests of Labor -- 5. Retooling the Kitchen Sink: Representing Domestic Labor in American Performance after 1963 -- 6. Beaten, Battered, and Brawny: American Variety Entertainers and the Working-Class Body -- 7. Hidden in Plain Sight: Recovering the Federal Theatre Project's Caravan Theatre -- 8. African American Waiters and Cakewalk Contests in Florida East Coast Resorts of the Gilded Age -- Part Three - Myth, Memory, and Manifestation: The Work of the Public Mind -- 9. Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon and the Work of Republicanism -- 10. Myth Made Manifest: Labor, Landscape, and the First Washington Theatre -- 11. Labor, Theatre, and the Dream of the White City -- Part Four - The Creative Work / The Work of Creation -- 12. Blue-Collar Bard: Recalling Shakespeare through the Rhetoric of Labor -- 13. Songs of Salaried Warriors: Copyright, Intellectual Property, and John Philip Sousa's The Free Lance -- 14. Working on a Masterpiece: Rinde Eckert's And God Created Great Whales -- Conclusion: Waiting in the Wings-Work -- Contributors -- Index.

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