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“This Is America!” Idealism and Oppression in Early Interwar Political Drama “This Is America!” Idealism and Oppression in Early Interwar Political Drama
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“It Takes a Lot of Joes”: Staging Capitalism and Labor “It Takes a Lot of Joes”: Staging Capitalism and Labor
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Happening Here: Dramas of Democracy, Antifascism, and War Happening Here: Dramas of Democracy, Antifascism, and War
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18 American Political Drama, 1910–45
Get accessChristopher J. Herr is an associate professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Missouri State University. His recent writing on twentieth-century American drama has appeared in To Have or Have Not: Essays on Commerce and Capital in Modernist Theatre (McFarland, 2011), edited by James Fisher, and in Blackwell’s A Companion to Satire (2007), edited by Ruben Quintero.
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Published:13 January 2014
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Abstract
This essay examines the history of political drama in the United States from 1910 to 1945. It describes the diversity of styles used and attitudes taken by politically influenced dramas, including those that supported capitalism in the 1920s, the increasingly oppositional leftist dramas of the 1930s, and the pro-war (or antifascist) plays of the 1940s. This essay also considers how much political content is required in order to label a play as political.
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