Overview

Full Product Details

9781609388454

Table of Contents

Reviews

"""Shulman's work contributes to ongoing conversations about the role of theatre in the public's understanding of health issues, especially its complicity in the stigmatizing of addiction. His clear writing style makes his examination of these once-popular plays accessible to both students and researchers.""--Susan Kattwinkel, College of Charleston ""The American Pipe Dream is a valuable contribution to the cultural history of addiction. Assembling a new archive of plays about alcoholism and drug habituation, and reading them in their broader context, Max Shulman demonstrates how American theatre shaped our current understandings of addiction.""--Susan Zieger, author, Inventing the Addict: Drugs, Race, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-century British and American Literature"

""Shulman's work contributes to ongoing conversations about the role of theatre in the public's understanding of health issues, especially its complicity in the stigmatizing of addiction. His clear writing style makes his examination of these once-popular plays accessible to both students and researchers.""--Susan Kattwinkel, College of Charleston ""The American Pipe Dream is a valuable contribution to the cultural history of addiction. Assembling a new archive of plays about alcoholism and drug habituation, and reading them in their broader context, Max Shulman demonstrates how American theatre shaped our current understandings of addiction.""--Susan Zieger, author, Inventing the Addict: Drugs, Race, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-century British and American Literature

Shulman's work contributes to ongoing conversations about the role of theatre in the public's understanding of health issues, especially its complicity in the stigmatizing of addiction. His clear writing style makes his examination of these once-popular plays accessible to both students and researchers. --Susan Kattwinkel, College of Charleston The American Pipe Dream is a valuable contribution to the cultural history of addiction. Assembling a new archive of plays about alcoholism and drug habituation, and reading them in their broader context, Max Shulman demonstrates how American theatre shaped our current understandings of addiction. --Susan Zieger, author, Inventing the Addict: Drugs, Race, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-century British and American Literature

Author Information

Max Shulman is assistant professor of theatre at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He is coeditor of Performing the Progressive Era: Immigration, Urban Life, and Nationalism on Stage (Iowa, 2019). He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available