The American Stage Book

List of illustrations; Notes on the contributors; Preface Ron Engle and Tice L. Miller; Acknowledgements; Introduction: American theatre history scholarship Oscar G. Brockett;

1. The theatre and its audience: changing modes of social organisation in the American theatre Douglas McDermott;
2. Puritan mercantilism and the politics of anti-theatrical legislation in colonial America Peter A. Davis;
3. 'Lady-managers' in nineteenth-century American theatre Vera Mowry Roberts;
4. Hustlers in the house: the Bowery Theatre as a mode of historical information Rosemarie K. Bank;
5. Museum theatre and the problem of respectability for mid-century urban Americans Bruce A. McConachie;
6. Social awareness on stage: tensions mounting, 1850-1859 Walter J. Meserve;
7. The development of the American theatre program Marvin Carlson;
8. The Hyers Sisters: pioneers in black musical comedy Errol Hill;
9. Money without glory: turn-of-the-century America's women playwrights Felicia Hardison Londré;
10. 'For laughing purposes only': the literature of American popular entertainment Brooks McNamara;
11. E pluribus unum: Bernhardt's 1905-1906 farewell tour Stephen M. Archer;
12. Commercialism glorified and vilified: 1920s theatre and the business world Ronald H. Wainscott;
13. Quicksilver revisited: a portrait of the American stage in the 1930s Charles H. Shattuck;
14. The economic structure of the Federal Theatre Project Barry B. Witham;
15. The American Repertory Theatre (1946-1947) and the repertory ideal, a case study Daniel J. Watermeier;
16. Sojourning in Never Never Land: the idea ofHollywood in recent theatre autobiographies Thomas Postlewait;
17. Consuming the past: commercial American theatre in the Reagan era Alan Woods;
18. Narrative strategies in selected studies of American theatre economies Margaret M. Knapp;
19. Multiculturalism versus technoculturalism: its challenge to American theatre and the functions of arts management Stephen Langley;
20. Checklist of selected books on American theatre, 1960-1990 Don B. Wilmeth; Index.