The American stage: social and economic issues from the Colonial period to the present

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List of illustrations Notes on the contributors Preface Ron Engle and Tice L. Miller Acknowledgements Introduction: American theatre history scholarship Oscar G. Brockett 1. The theatre and its audience: changing modes of social organisation in the American theatre Douglas McDermott 2. Puritan mercantilism and the politics of anti-theatrical legislation in colonial America Peter A. Davis 3. 'Lady-managers' in nineteenth-century American theatre Vera Mowry Roberts 4. Hustlers in the house: the Bowery Theatre as a mode of historical information Rosemarie K. Bank 5. Museum theatre and the problem of respectability for mid-century urban Americans Bruce A. McConachie 6. Social awareness on stage: tensions mounting, 1850-1859 Walter J. Meserve 7. The development of the American theatre program Marvin Carlson 8. The Hyers Sisters: pioneers in black musical comedy Errol Hill 9. Money without glory: turn-of-the-century America's women playwrights Felicia Hardison Londre 10. 'For laughing purposes only': the literature of American popular entertainment Brooks McNamara 11. E pluribus unum: Bernhardt's 1905-1906 farewell tour Stephen M. Archer 12. Commercialism glorified and vilified: 1920s theatre and the business world Ronald H. Wainscott 13. Quicksilver revisited: a portrait of the American stage in the 1930s Charles H. Shattuck 14. The economic structure of the Federal Theatre Project Barry B. Witham 15. The American Repertory Theatre (1946-1947) and the repertory ideal, a case study Daniel J. Watermeier 16. Sojourning in Never Never Land: the idea of Hollywood in recent theatre autobiographies Thomas Postlewait 17. Consuming the past: commercial American theatre in the Reagan era Alan Woods 18. Narrative strategies in selected studies of American theatre economies Margaret M. Knapp 19. Multiculturalism versus technoculturalism: its challenge to American theatre and the functions of arts management Stephen Langley 20. Checklist of selected books on American theatre, 1960-1990 Don B. Wilmeth Index.