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Staging the slums, slumming the stage : class, poverty, ethnicity, and sexuality in American theatre, 1890-1916 / by J. Chris Westgate.

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Slum plays represent the different locations, attractions, and challenges of life in the slums such as tenements and tenants' rights, immigrant neighborhoods and nativist prejudices, and red-light districts and prostitution. This genre's rise in prominence took place precisely when the Uni...

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Main Author: Westgate, J. Chris (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Series:Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history.
Subjects:
American drama > 20th century > History and criticism.
Slums in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
Urban poor in literature.
Theater > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Broadway (New York, N.Y.) > History.
American drama.
Theater.
New York (State) > New York.
New York (State) > New York > Broadway.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

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Call Number: PS338.S58 W48 2014
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