"Theatrical Properties: Inheritance and Modern American Drama" argues that the performance of inheritance represents a primary way of negotiating American cultural identity in the 20century. Specifically, I demonstrate that drama, in ways unique from other expressive forms, emerged in the 20century as...
In Europe and theUnited Statesseveral forms arose in the 20th century that combine dramatic and nondramatic material. Vaudeville, or music hall, for instance, employs a succession of various acts, such as fictional sketches, musical and dance numbers, and feats ofdexterity, of which some are re...
Besides these systems of production there are several forms known collectively as alternative theatre and later as third theatre. The impulses for the alternative theatre arose in the mid-1960s from a sense of dissatisfaction with traditional theatre, in terms of both its repertoire and its producti...