Date of Award
5-1937
Degree Type
Bachelors Essay
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
Literatures, Languages, and Cultures
First Advisor
Ruth Klein
Second Advisor
William M. Lamers
Abstract
Within the last half dozen years there has been a revival in the writing and production of historical plays. The purpose of this thesis is to show how theatre-critics react to the outstanding plays of this type which, incidentally, nearly monopolized the boards for this period. This reaction is gauged by a study of criticisms published in a New York newspaper, two professional theatrical magazines, two non-professional magazines, and a religious magazine. The opinions studied are those of Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times, John Hutchins and Edith J. R. Isaacs of Theatre Arts Monthly, Thomas Craven, Ruth Woodbury Sedgwich, and an anonymous staff member of Stage, Mark Van Doren, Joseph Wood Krutch and Freda Kirchwey of The Nation, anonymous staff members of Time and Euphemia Van Rensselaer Wyatt of The Catholic World.
Recommended Citation
Maier, Helen, "The Reactions of Critics to Modern Historical Plays" (1937). Bachelors’ Theses. 1815.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/1815
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English Language and Literature Commons, Modern Literature Commons, Theatre and Performance Studies Commons
Comments
A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the School of Speech of Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin