They pay special attention to performances by and for those outside mainstream society: immigrants, the working-class, and bohemians, to name a few. Contributors analyze performances in urban centers (New York, Chicago, Cleveland) in comedy shows, melodramas, Broadway shows, operas, and others. In Performing the Progressive Era, editors Max Shulman and Chris Westgate bring together top scholars in nineteenth- and twentieth-century theatre studies to examine the burst of diverse performance venues and styles of the time, revealing how they shaped national narratives surrounding immigration and urban life. dynamic period of political reform and social activism. 'The American Progressive Era, which spanned from the 1880s to the 1920s, is generally regarded as a.

Geigner - 'Art in democracy' in the early houses of the Cleveland Play House / by Les Hunter - New women and girls of today in motion: the 'strenuous clasping' of tango teas / by Ariel Nereson - Keaton, class, and social control: comic Vaudeville in the Progressive Era / by Rick Desrochers - Celebrating childhood on the Vaudeville stage / by Gillian Arrighi - Monstrosity or medical miracle?: incubator baby sideshows and the contradictions of the Progressive Era / by Susan Kattwinkel - The Progressive Era's doctor-doper dyad / by Max Shulman - Conclusion / by Max Shulman and J. Chris Westgate - Systematic Vaudeville and systematic farce: the unlikely team of Taylor and Schmidt / by Michael Schwartz - Immigrant civic performances and historical pageantry: Columbus Day in Chicago, 1892/1913 / by Megan E. late nineteenth century / by Amy Arbogast - Marching off-beat and on screen: New York City's reform movements & Charles Hale Hoyt's A milk white flag / by Hillary Miller - 'Wasn't America crowded enough wid out you forrinners?': staging immigration, assimilation, and social mobility in the Rooseveltian nation / by J. Foreword / by Laurence Senelick - Rural life with urban strife: the evolution of rural drama in the.

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