Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Part I: Introduction; 1 Bodies: actors and artistic agency on the nineteenth-century stage; 2 Voices: oratory, expression, and the text/performance split; 3 Words: copyright and the creation of the performance "text"; Part II: Introduction; 4 The "unconscious autobiography" of Eugene O'Neill; 5 Elmer Rice and the cinematic imagination; 6 "I love a parade!": John Howard Lawson's minstrel burlesque of the American Dream; 7 Sophie Treadwell's "pretty hands"; Epilogue: "modern times"; Notes
Summary
This study addresses the direct influence on American theatre of new technologies at the turn of the twentieth century. Walker argues that a specific form of drama - expressionism - developed in response to these technologies and to popular fears about them
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
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