To have or have not : essays on commerce and capital in modernist theatre / edited by James Fisher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fisher, James, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drama--History and criticism.

Drama.

Money in literature.

Wealth in literature.

Commerce in literature.

Social classes in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 306 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2011]

Summary:

"In a rapidly changing world, the ways in which economic forces affect both personal and global change can be difficult to track, particularly in the arts. This collection of twenty new essays explores both obscure and famous plays dealing with economic issues"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / James Fisher

Friedrich Engels, Lewis Henry Morgan, capitalism, and theatre-making in nineteenth-century America / Rosemarie K. Bank

"Money is our God here": the comedy of capital in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Money and Philip Barry's Holiday / James Fisher

Amateur economies: widowhood and marriage for amateur performers / Eileen Curley

Gold Rush: McTeague, Frank Norris, and Neal Bell / Robert F. Gross

Money in Chekhov's plays / Laurence Senelick

Jacob Gordin and Jewish socialism in America / Valleri J. Hohman

The music master and the money makers / Felicia Hardison Londre

Performing "Amerikee": rural caricature and the George Washingtons of Percy MacKaye and Jacques Copeau / Mark Evans Bryan

I am your worker/I am your slave: dehumanization, capitalist fantasy, and Communist anxiety in Karel Tapek's R.U.R. / Paul Menard

Home away from home: greed in Marco Millions / Thierry Dubost

Babbitting Broadway: satire, the gospel of success, and Americanization of expressionism / James M. Cherry

A new approach to revolution: Artef and Hirsch Leckert in the Third Period / Joshua Polster

"Television's comin' in, sure as death": the strange consumer paradise of Clifford Odets' Paradise lost / Christopher J. Herr

Back-alleys to basements: narratives of class and (il)legal abortion on the American stage / Christine Woodworth

Peter Weiss's The investigation: the Marxist view of the Holocaust / Gene A. Plunka

Caryl Churchill's Top girls: postmodern complicity and the economics of Thatcherism / Daniel Keith Jernigan

Excessive greed, excessive visions: Brenton and Hare's Brassneck and Pravda / John E. O'Connor

The absence of wealth in recent British plays about business / Amelia Howe Kritzer

Between want and wealth: the failure of upward mobility in Jose Rivera's early plays / J. Chris Westgate

Jesus hopped the 'A' train and under America: how mainstream reviews represent the guilty and obscure the cconomics of the U.S. prison industry / Jacob Juntunen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780786447176

0786447176

OCLC:

732960078