Class divisions on the Broadway stage : the staging and taming of the I.W.W. / Michael Schwartz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwartz, Michael, 1963 October 18- author.

Series:

Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial Workers of the World.

American drama--20th century--History and criticism.

American drama.

Industrial Workers of the World--In literature.

Theater and society--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Theater and society.

Class consciousness--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Class consciousness.

Labor movement in literature.

Class consciousness in literature.

History.

New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

192 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

Examining twenty-five years of theatre history, this book covers the major plays that feature representations of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.), or "Wobblies." American class movement and class divisions have long been reflected on the Broadway stage and, through the lens of the I.W.W., Michael Schwartz presents a fresh look at the conflict between labor and capital. From O'Neill's The Hairy Ape; Sidney Howard's They Knew What They Wanted; John Howard Lawson's Processional; Harold Hickerson and Maxwell Anderson's Gods of the Lightning; and Upton Sinclair's Singing Jailbirds in the 1920s to O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh in 1946, Schwartz traces the plays' impact of I.W.W. as an actual agent for workers' rights and social change as well as the popular image of the Wobbly-how audiences "saw" Wobblies and what role they played in audience imagination. Book jacket.

Contents:

To stop the world: Wobbly overview

Where do i get off at? the Wobblies spurn the hairy ape

No kick coming: the romantic Wobbly of they knew what they wanted

Jazzing the Wobblies: John Howard Lawson's Processional

Dead hand of the dead: Anderson and Hickerson's Gods of the lightning

We even sing 'em in Jap and Chink: Upton Sinclair's workers' theater contribution

You I-won't work harp: I.W.W. elegy in The iceman cometh

Postscript: Not time yet.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137353047

113735304X

OCLC:

873726276