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Author:   James Fisher
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.422kg
ISBN:  

9780786447176

ISBN 10:   0786447176
Pages:   314
Publication Date:   12 October 2011
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents Introduction JAMES FISHER      Friedrich Engels, Lewis Henry Morgan, Capitalism, and Theatre-Making in Nineteenth-Century America ROSEMARIE K. BANK      “Money Is Our God Here”: The Comedy of Capital in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s Money and Philip Barry’s Holiday JAMES FISHER      Amateur Economies: Widowhood and Marriage for Amateur Performers EILEEN CURLEY      Gold Rush: McTeague, Frank Norris, and Neal Bell ROBERT F. GROSS      Money in Chekhov’s Plays LAURENCE SENELICK      Jacob Gordin and Jewish Socialism in America VALLERI J. HOHMAN      The Music Master and the Money Makers FELICIA HARDISON LONDRÉ      Performing “Amerikee”: Rural Caricature and the George Washingtons of Percy MacKaye and Jacques Copeau MARK EVANS BRYAN      I Am Your Worker/I Am Your Slave: Dehumanization, Capitalist Fantasy, and Communist Anxiety in Karel Tapek’s R.U.R. PAUL MENARD      Home Away from Home: Greed in Marco Millions THIERRY DUBOST      Babbitting Broadway: Satire, the Gospel of Success, and Americanization of Expressionism JAMES M. CHERRY      A New Approach to Revolution: Artef and Hirsch Leckert in the Third Period JOSHUA POLSTER      “Television’s Comin’ In, Sure as Death”: The Strange Consumer Paradise of Clifford Odets’ Paradise Lost CHRISTOPHER J. HERR      Back-Alleys to Basements: Narratives of Class and (Il)legal Abortion on the American Stage CHRISTINE WOODWORTH      Peter Weiss’s The Investigation: The Marxist View of the Holocaust GENE A. PLUNKA      Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls: Postmodern Complicity and the Economics of Thatcherism DANIEL KEITH JERNIGAN      Excessive Greed, Excessive Visions: Brenton and Hare’s Brassneck and Pravda JOHN E. O’CONNOR      The Absence of Wealth in Recent British Plays about Business AMELIA HOWE KRITZER      Between Want and Wealth: The Failure of Upward Mobility in José Rivera’s Early Plays J. CHRIS WESTGATE      Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train and Under America: How Mainstream Reviews Represent the Guilty and Obscure the Economics of the U.S. Prison Industry JACOB JUNTUNEN      About the Contributors      Index     

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James Fisher is professor of theatre and head of the theatre department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of several books on theatre.

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