Author: Mcarthur, Benjamin; Editor: Postlewait, Thomas
Studies in Theatre History and Culture; Paperback; 11 Photographs
304 pages
Published: March 2000
University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 0877457107

The forty years 1880 to 1920 marked the golden age of the American theatre as a national institution, a time when actors moved from being players outside the boundaries of respectable society to being significant figures in the social landscape. As the only book that provides an overview of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century theatre, Actors and American Culture is also theonly study of the legitimate stage that overtly attempts to connect actors and their work to the wider aspects of American life.This text provides an overview of late-19th and early-20th century theatre. It is a study of the legitimate stage that overtly attempts to connect actors and their work to the wider aspects of American life.