This book examines over 125 American, English, Irish and Anglo-Indian plays by 70 dramatists which were published in 14 American general interest periodicals aimed at the middle-class reader and consumer.

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"Future scholars will be glad to have this study of a period of American drama that has until now been somewhat neglected. . .Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." - CHOICE

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SUSAN HARRIS SMITH is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.

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Book Title: Plays in American Periodicals, 1890-1918
Authors: Susan Harris Smith
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230605022
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7765-6Published: 10 August 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-03296-6Published: 24 July 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-60502-2Published: 09 July 2007
Series ISSN: 2947-5767
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5775
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 224
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Theatre History, North American Literature, Historiography and Method, US History

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

Front Matter

Varieties of Dramatic Experience

Cultures of Social Distance and Difference

Women as American Citizens

Cultural Displacement

Dis/Contented Citizens

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