Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 188 pages)
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9783031132414
,
3031132416
Content:
1. Jazz Age Theatre and the "Marriage Crisis" -- 2. White Desert: Marriage as Manifest Destiny -- 3. Sea-Wife: Marriage and Superstition -- 4. Saturdays Children: Love Before Marriage -- 5. Gypsy: Love After Marriage -- 6. Maxwell Anderson Reassessed.
Content:
This book focuses on the re-evaluation of four Maxwell Anderson plays within the context of the emergence of the New Woman and the perception of a marriage crisis in the United States During the 1920s. The four plays under consideration are White Desert (1923), Sea-Wife (1924), Saturdays Children (1927), and Gypsy (1929). These plays are largely forgotten and, even when the titles appear in Anderson scholarship, coverage has tended to be cursory and dismissive. This work represents a fresh approach and re-assessment of an American playwright who bore a significant impact on the drama of his time, serving not only to place Andersons work more effectively within the context of American theatre during the 1920s, but also to bridge the gap between his work and the marriage-related plays of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Fonzie D. Geary II is Associate Professor and Director of Theatre at Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas, USA. He has researched early to mid-twentieth century American drama for over fifteen years with an emphasis on examining plays for their cultural relevance, and his publications on the work of Maxwell Anderson have appeared in the New England Theatre Journal, the Journal of American Drama and Theatre, and Theatre Annual. He is a Lifetime Member of the American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS)
Note:
Includes index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3031132408
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031132407
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe GEARY II, FONZIE D MAXWELL ANDERSON AND THE MARRIAGE CRISIS [Place of publication not identified] : PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2022 ISBN 3031132408
Language:
English
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