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  • Print publication year: 1999
  • Online publication date: March 2008

1 - The Hieroglyphic Stage: American Theatre and Society, Post-Civil War to 1945

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The period of American theatrical entertainment to be surveyed covers approximately three-quarters of a century, beginning in 1870 and ending in 1945. This chapter outlines some of the defining traits of the broad array of entertainment, and situates American theatre within the context of American cultural history. It explains some reservations about the privileged place of the standard history that maps the chronological development of American theatre from popular entertainment to the triumph of realism and modernism. The chapter also shows that a theatre of the real thing and a theatre of hieroglyphic spectacle are two dynamic, interrelated codes that operate within various forms and kinds of theatrical entertainment in American culture. Finally, the chapter suggests that a theatre of the eye, an American spectatorium, unites many of the seemingly disparate aspects of theatre, culture, and society during this era.

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The Cambridge History of American Theatre
  • Online ISBN: 9781139053686
  • Book DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521651790
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