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

By Richard Wattenberg

PART I: THE AXES OF ANALYSIS: FRONTIER WESTERN DISCOURSE AND THEATRE PRACTICE The Frontier Western Discourse at the Turn of the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century The Turn-of-the-Century American Theatre Context PART II: THE PLAYS Discipline and Spontaneity: Clyde Fitch's The Cowboy and the Lady and Augustus Thomas's Arizona Drama from Novels: John Ermine of the Yellowstone and The Virginian Variations on the Frontier Myth: Edward Milton Royle's The Squaw Man and David Belasco's The Girl of the Golden West From Melodrama to Realism: William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide and Rachel Crothers's The Three of Us

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349293768
• ISBN13: 9781349293766
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"