Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33

Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33
Author: Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2014-12-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0817358072

Theatre History Studies 2014, Volume 33, brings together an original collection of essays that explore a topic of growing interest--theatre and war.

Melodrama and the Myth of America

Melodrama and the Myth of America
Author: Jeffrey Daniel Mason
Publisher: Drama and Performance Studies
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1993
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

Jeffrey Mason investigates the reasons for their popular success and reconstructs the social and political backdrop against which they were viewed. He shows how they functioned in the social discourse of the time as collective affirmations of certain cultural myths. Yet these acts of communal belief were played out on the contested stage of American ideological debate.