The American Stage and the Great Depression : A Cultural History of the Grotesque (Hardcover)

List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: loving the grotesque; 1. The grotesque and the Great Depression; 2. The political analogy; or, 'tragicomedy' in an in-between age; 3. Misery burlesqued: the peculiar case of Tobacco Road; 4. Chaos and cruelty in the theatrical space: Horse Eats Hat, Hellzapoppin, and the pleasure of farce; Appendix: cast and staff information for principal productions; Notes; Bibliography; Index.