Dreaming America: Popular Front Ideals and Aesthetics in Children's Plays of the Federal Theatre Project

by Leslie Elaine Frost

Dreaming America: Popular Front Ideals and Aesthetics in Children's Plays of the Federal Theatre Project by Leslie Elaine Frost traces how the tumultuous politics of the late 1930s shaped the stories and staging of federally funded plays for children. Indeed, children's theater was central to the Federal Theatre Project's vision of building a national theater. Frost argues that representations of the child and childhood in the FTP children's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814256309
• ISBN13: 9780814256305
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"