Expressionism and modernism in the American theatre: bodies, voices, words

Pt. I: Introduction. Bodies: actors and artistic agency on the nineteenth-century stage ; Voices: oratory, expression, and the text/performance split ; Words: copyright and the creation of the performance "text"

Pt. II: Introduction. The "unconscious autobiography" of Eugene O'Neill ; Elmer Rice and the cinematic imagination ; "I love a parade!": John Howard Lawson's minstrel burlesque of the American dream ; Sophie Treadwell's "pretty hands"

Epilogue: "Modern times".