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Title:
Staging the slums, slumming the stage : class, poverty, ethnicity, and sexuality in American theatre, 1890-1916 / J. Chris Westgate.
Author:
Westgate, J. Chris, author.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Call Number:
PS338 .S58 W48 2014
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781137359681
Series:
Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history

Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history.
Physical Description:
xii, 278 pages ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Introduction: Darnton's lament -- Modes of staging the slums. "Strange things" from the Bowery: the tourism narrative in slum plays -- "What the poor of this great city must endure": the sociological narrative in slum plays -- Slumming destinations on stage. The courage to see the sights of the tenement -- The spectacle of immigrant neighborhoods -- Touring the red lights district -- Case studies in slum plays. "Nothing more infernal": verisimilitude and voyeurism in Salvation Nell -- "Avoiding the grotesque and offensive": the Zangwill plays.
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