Messiah of the New Technique: John Howard Lawson, Communism, and American Theatre, 1923-1937

by Jonathan L. Chambers

Messiah of the New Technique: John Howard Lawson, Communism, and American Theatre, 1923-1937 is a critical and political biography and a cultural and social history that focuses on Lawson's career in the theatre. Using a materialist methodology, Jonathan L. Chambers emphasizes the evolution and interplay of the playwright's artistic vision and political ideology, considering his art as both a documentation of this evolution and a product...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080932699X
• ISBN13: 9780809326990
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"