Description
This book focuses on the re-evaluation of four Maxwell Anderson plays within the context of the emergence of the New Woman and the perception of a marriage crisis in the United States during the 1920s. The four plays under consideration are White Desert (1923), Sea-Wife (1924), Saturday's Children (1927), and Gypsy (1929). These plays are largely forgotten and, even when the titles appear in Anderson scholarship, coverage has tended to be cursory and dismissive. This work represents a fresh approach and re-assessment of an American playwright who bore a significant impact on the drama of his time, serving not only to place Anderson's work more effectively within the context of American theatre during the 1920s, but also to bridge the gap between his work and the marriage-related plays of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Author: Fonzie D. Geary II
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/24/2023
Pages: 188
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.42d
ISBN13: 9783031132438
ISBN10: 3031132432
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Theater | History & Criticism
- History | General