Description: Sheldon Cheney's Theatre Arts Magazine: Promoting a Modern American Theatre, 1916-1921 is an anthology designed to enrich understanding of a critical period in U.S. history and to illuminate major issues of 20th century theatre and drama. Every chapter of the book considers a ...
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"A fine addition to the Scarecrow list.... The volume is valuable for the unique way Toten Beard (Baylor Univ.) gives voice to first-person, pro-modernist perspectives on needed reforms of live theater and performance during this period in history.... Recommended." --Choice Reviews
"The book is useful for understanding the changing dynamics of theater arts in the early twentieth century. It will give students and general readers new insight into the modernism period and the struggle for change during this time." --American Reference Books Annual