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Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage : Class, Poverty, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in American Theatre, 1890-1916.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History SeriesPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (286 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137357687
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Staging the Slums, Slumming the StageLOC classification:
  • HM706
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Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents . -- Acknowledgments . -- Introduction: Darnton's Lament . -- Part I Modes of Staging the Slums . -- 1. "Strange Things" from the Bowery: -- 2. "What the Poor of This Great City Must Endure": -- Part II Slumming Destinations on Stage . -- 3. The Courage to See the Sights of the Tenement . -- 4. The Spectacle of Immigrant Neighborhoods . -- 5. Touring the Red Lights District . -- Part III Case Studies in Slum Plays . -- 6. "Nothing More Infernal": -- 7. "Avoiding the Grotesque and Offensive": -- Notes . -- Bibliography . -- Index.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents . -- Acknowledgments . -- Introduction: Darnton's Lament . -- Part I Modes of Staging the Slums . -- 1. "Strange Things" from the Bowery: -- 2. "What the Poor of This Great City Must Endure": -- Part II Slumming Destinations on Stage . -- 3. The Courage to See the Sights of the Tenement . -- 4. The Spectacle of Immigrant Neighborhoods . -- 5. Touring the Red Lights District . -- Part III Case Studies in Slum Plays . -- 6. "Nothing More Infernal": -- 7. "Avoiding the Grotesque and Offensive": -- Notes . -- Bibliography . -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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