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Book SynopsisCheryl Black is Curators Distinguished Professor Emerita of theatre at the University of Missouri, Columbia, USA.
Table of ContentsList of Figures Series Introductions,
James Peck (Muhlenberg College, USA) Acknowledgments Introduction. Forerunners and Groundbreakers in the Art of Theatrical Directing,
Cheryl Black (University of Missouri, USA) David Belasco 1. The Belasco Brand: Directing the Modern Theatrical Experience,
Christin Essin (Vanderbilt University, USA) 2. The Cultural Imaginings of a Theatrical Impresario: David Belasco in Context,
Cheryl Black (University of Missouri, USA) Arthur Hopkins 3. Arthur Hopkins’s First Act: Before the Crash (1913–29),
Arthur Feinsod (Indiana State University, USA) 4. Arthur Hopkins’s Second Act: After the Crash (1928–48),
Ronald Wainscott (Indiana University, USA) Margaret Webster 5. “She Must Be Fierce”: Margaret Webster’s Groundbreaking Broadway Career,
Wendy Vierow (New York University, USA) 6. Not the Moor, but the Figure of the Moor: A Case Study of the Racial, Political, and Personal Stakes of Margaret Webster’s Othello (1943) and The Tempest (1945),
Lisa Jackson-Schebetta (Skidmore College, USA) Notes Notes on Contributors Index
