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Article: Barry B. Witham. The Federal Theatre Project: A Case Study.(Book Review)
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- Comparative Drama
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- September 22, 2003
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Barry B. Witham. The Federal Theatre Project: A Case Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii + 190. $60.00.
In 1832 William Dunlap, considered to be one of the main progenitors of American drama and theater, proposed in his History of American Theatre that the United States government undertake to establish a national theater as a means of ensuring both the continued health of theatrical activity and the use of the stage for the inculcation of republican virtue. Although no one took Dunlap seriously enough at the time to demand the legislation necessary to create such a theater, a century later, with workers of all kinds desperate for ...