Staging the slums, slumming the stage : class, poverty, ethnicity, and sexuality in American theatre, 1890-1916 / by J. Chris Westgate.
Slum plays represent the different locations, attractions, and challenges of life in the slums such as tenements and tenants' rights, immigrant neighborhoods and nativist prejudices, and red-light districts and prostitution. This genre's rise in prominence took place precisely when the Uni...
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