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The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition.  \nThe paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39 .48-1984.  \nManufactured in the United States of America  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nWertheim, Albert.  \nStaging the war : American drama and World War II / Albert Wertheim.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \nIncludes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.  \nISBN 0-253-34310-0 (alk. paper)  \n1. American drama—20th century—History and criticism.  \n2. World War, 1939–1945—Literature and the war.  \n3. Theater—United States—History—20th century. 4. War in literature. I. Title. PS338.W67W47 2004  \n812’.5409358—dc21  \n2003006845  \n1 2 3 4 5 09 08 07 06 05 04  \nFor Judy, Lewis and Ellie, Gerald and Raluca, and Benjamin  \nCONTENTS  \nIntroduction ix  \nONE  \nGetting Involved: American Drama on the Eve of World War II 1  \nTWO  \nThe Drama of the War Years 54  \nTHREE  \nThe Dramatic Art of Uncle Sam: The Government, the Drama, and the War 126  \nFOUR  \nAiring the War: World War II Radio Plays 174  \nFIVE  \nThe Aftermath 225  \nNotes 291  \nBibliography 309  \nprimary texts 309 secondary sources 313  \nIndex 319  \nINTRODUCTION  \nWhat happened in American drama in the years between the Depression and the conclusion of World War II? How did the war make its impact on the drama? And more important, how was the drama used during the war years to shape American attitudes about U.S. participation in the combat, who the enemy was, and the proper role of citizens both at home and in the service? Studies of American drama and anthologies of American plays for the most part skip cavalierly from the 1930s Depression-era plays of Clifford Odets and the Group Theatre to Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie, which opened six weeks before V-E Day in 1945, or to Arthur Miller’s All My Sons in 1947 . With the exception of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, and perhaps Robert Sherwood’sAbe Lincoln in Illinois and Lillian Hellman’s Watch on the Rhine, little is said about the decade between the heyday of Odets and the first successes of Miller and Williams. Yet that very decade is the decade of World War II, arguably the most important of the twentieth century. Although there are studies of wartime film, like the two books both called Hollywood Goes to War, inexplicably, no one has paid much attention to the playwriting and theatre of the period.1  \nFrom the period of Hitler’s rise in the 1930s to the decade following the end of World War II, there are many fine plays about the war and the issues surrounding it. Some of these plays were later made into films. But the films, often made months or years after the Broadway production, usually lacked the currency and immediacy of the plays, which had been staged at a particular moment in the war era. The plays examined in this study deserve close attention both for their excellence as works of drama and for the things they reveal about American society during the war. Many of the plays are still vibrant and stage-worthy, but there is much to learn as well about wartime issues from other plays that now seem dated, and from those that did not h","cbCaikNODoO4JbuB","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikNODoO4JbuB","pdf",3013164,350,"English","# Introduction\n# Getting Involved: American Drama on the Eve of World War II\n# The Drama of the War Years\n# The Dramatic Art of Uncle Sam: The Government, the Drama, and the War\n# Airing the War: World War II Radio Plays\n# The Aftermath\n# Notes\n# Bibliography\n## primary texts\n## secondary sources\n# Index","[{\"question\":\"What question does the introduction ask about American drama during World War II?\",\"answer\":\"It asks what happened in American drama from the Depression era to the end of World War II, how the war shaped its impact, and how drama was used to influence attitudes toward U.S. involvement and civic roles.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the book distinguish stage plays from film adaptations?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that films made months or years after Broadway premieres often lacked the currency and immediacy of the original plays staged at specific moments in the war.\"},{\"question\":\"Which time period does the study claim has been underexamined?\",\"answer\":\"The decade between Clifford Odets’s Depression-era prominence and the early successes of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, characterized here as the World War II decade.\"}]","Staging the War - American Drama and World War II | PDF",1789985652,539]