Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Modernism

by James Fisher

The fifty-year period from 1880 to 1929 is the richest era for theater in American history, certainly in the great number of plays produced and artists who contributed significantly, but also in the centrality of theater in the lives of Americans. As the impact of European modernism began to gradually seep into American theater during the 1880s and quite importantly in the 1890s, more traditional forms of theater gave way to futurism, symbolism, surrealism,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081085533X
• ISBN13: 9780810855335
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 2.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 8.7"