An edition of To have or have not
(2011)
To have or have not
essays on commerce and capital in modernist theatre
by Fisher, James
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"In a rapidly changing world, the ways in which economic forces affect both personal and global change can be difficult to track, particularly in the arts. This collection of twenty new essays explores both obscure and famous plays dealing with economic issues"--Provided by publisher.
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To have or have not: essays on commerce and capital in modernist theatre
2011, McFarland
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0786447176 9780786447176
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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 Londre
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 Jose Rivera's early plays / J. Chris Westgate
Jesus hopped the 'A' train and under America: how mainstream reviews represent the guilty and obscure the cconomics of the U.S. prison industry / Jacob Juntunen.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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