James Fisher is professor of theatre and head of the theatre department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of several books on theatre.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionJAMES FISHER      Friedrich Engels, Lewis Henry Morgan, Capitalism, and Theatre-Making in Nineteenth-Century AmericaROSEMARIE K. BANK      “Money Is Our God Here”: The Comedy of Capital in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s Money and Philip Barry’s HolidayJAMES FISHER      Amateur Economies: Widowhood and Marriage for Amateur PerformersEILEEN CURLEY      Gold Rush: McTeague, Frank Norris, and Neal BellROBERT F. GROSS      Money in Chekhov’s PlaysLAURENCE SENELICK      Jacob Gordin and Jewish Socialism in AmericaVALLERI J. HOHMAN      The Music Master and the Money MakersFELICIA HARDISON LONDRÉ      Performing “Amerikee”: Rural Caricature and the George Washingtons of Percy MacKaye and Jacques CopeauMARK EVANS BRYAN      I Am Your Worker/I Am Your Slave: Dehumanization, Capitalist Fantasy, and Communist Anxiety in Karel Tapek’s R.U.R.PAUL MENARD      Home Away from Home: Greed in Marco MillionsTHIERRY DUBOST      Babbitting Broadway: Satire, the Gospel of Success, and Americanization of ExpressionismJAMES M. CHERRY      A New Approach to Revolution: Artef and Hirsch Leckert in the Third PeriodJOSHUA POLSTER      “Television’s Comin’ In, Sure as Death”: The Strange Consumer Paradise of Clifford Odets’ Paradise LostCHRISTOPHER J. HERR      Back-Alleys to Basements: Narratives of Class and (Il)legal Abortion on the American StageCHRISTINE WOODWORTH      Peter Weiss’s The Investigation: The Marxist View of the HolocaustGENE A. PLUNKA      Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls: Postmodern Complicity and the Economics of ThatcherismDANIEL KEITH JERNIGAN      Excessive Greed, Excessive Visions: Brenton and Hare’s Brassneck and PravdaJOHN E. O’CONNOR      The Absence of Wealth in Recent British Plays about BusinessAMELIA HOWE KRITZER      Between Want and Wealth: The Failure of Upward Mobility in José Rivera’s Early PlaysJ. CHRIS WESTGATE      Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train and Under America: How Mainstream Reviews Represent the Guilty and Obscure the Economics of the U.S. Prison IndustryJACOB JUNTUNEN      About the Contributors      Index

James Fisher is professor of theatre and head of the theatre department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of several books on theatre.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionJAMES FISHER      Friedrich Engels, Lewis Henry Morgan, Capitalism, and Theatre-Making in Nineteenth-Century AmericaROSEMARIE K. BANK      “Money Is Our God Here”: The Comedy of Capital in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s Money and Philip Barry’s HolidayJAMES FISHER      Amateur Economies: Widowhood and Marriage for Amateur PerformersEILEEN CURLEY      Gold Rush: McTeague, Frank Norris, and Neal BellROBERT F. GROSS      Money in Chekhov’s PlaysLAURENCE SENELICK      Jacob Gordin and Jewish Socialism in AmericaVALLERI J. HOHMAN      The Music Master and the Money MakersFELICIA HARDISON LONDRÉ      Performing “Amerikee”: Rural Caricature and the George Washingtons of Percy MacKaye and Jacques CopeauMARK EVANS BRYAN      I Am Your Worker/I Am Your Slave: Dehumanization, Capitalist Fantasy, and Communist Anxiety in Karel Tapek’s R.U.R.PAUL MENARD      Home Away from Home: Greed in Marco MillionsTHIERRY DUBOST      Babbitting Broadway: Satire, the Gospel of Success, and Americanization of ExpressionismJAMES M. CHERRY      A New Approach to Revolution: Artef and Hirsch Leckert in the Third PeriodJOSHUA POLSTER      “Television’s Comin’ In, Sure as Death”: The Strange Consumer Paradise of Clifford Odets’ Paradise LostCHRISTOPHER J. HERR      Back-Alleys to Basements: Narratives of Class and (Il)legal Abortion on the American StageCHRISTINE WOODWORTH      Peter Weiss’s The Investigation: The Marxist View of the HolocaustGENE A. PLUNKA      Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls: Postmodern Complicity and the Economics of ThatcherismDANIEL KEITH JERNIGAN      Excessive Greed, Excessive Visions: Brenton and Hare’s Brassneck and PravdaJOHN E. O’CONNOR      The Absence of Wealth in Recent British Plays about BusinessAMELIA HOWE KRITZER      Between Want and Wealth: The Failure of Upward Mobility in José Rivera’s Early PlaysJ. CHRIS WESTGATE      Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train and Under America: How Mainstream Reviews Represent the Guilty and Obscure the Economics of the U.S. Prison IndustryJACOB JUNTUNEN      About the Contributors      Index

James Fisher is professor of theatre and head of the theatre department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of several books on theatre.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionJAMES FISHER      Friedrich Engels, Lewis Henry Morgan, Capitalism, and Theatre-Making in Nineteenth-Century AmericaROSEMARIE K. BANK      “Money Is Our God Here”: The Comedy of Capital in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s Money and Philip Barry’s HolidayJAMES FISHER      Amateur Economies: Widowhood and Marriage for Amateur PerformersEILEEN CURLEY      Gold Rush: McTeague, Frank Norris, and Neal BellROBERT F. GROSS      Money in Chekhov’s PlaysLAURENCE SENELICK      Jacob Gordin and Jewish Socialism in AmericaVALLERI J. HOHMAN      The Music Master and the Money MakersFELICIA HARDISON LONDRÉ      Performing “Amerikee”: Rural Caricature and the George Washingtons of Percy MacKaye and Jacques CopeauMARK EVANS BRYAN      I Am Your Worker/I Am Your Slave: Dehumanization, Capitalist Fantasy, and Communist Anxiety in Karel Tapek’s R.U.R.PAUL MENARD      Home Away from Home: Greed in Marco MillionsTHIERRY DUBOST      Babbitting Broadway: Satire, the Gospel of Success, and Americanization of ExpressionismJAMES M. CHERRY      A New Approach to Revolution: Artef and Hirsch Leckert in the Third PeriodJOSHUA POLSTER      “Television’s Comin’ In, Sure as Death”: The Strange Consumer Paradise of Clifford Odets’ Paradise LostCHRISTOPHER J. HERR      Back-Alleys to Basements: Narratives of Class and (Il)legal Abortion on the American StageCHRISTINE WOODWORTH      Peter Weiss’s The Investigation: The Marxist View of the HolocaustGENE A. PLUNKA      Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls: Postmodern Complicity and the Economics of ThatcherismDANIEL KEITH JERNIGAN      Excessive Greed, Excessive Visions: Brenton and Hare’s Brassneck and PravdaJOHN E. O’CONNOR      The Absence of Wealth in Recent British Plays about BusinessAMELIA HOWE KRITZER      Between Want and Wealth: The Failure of Upward Mobility in José Rivera’s Early PlaysJ. CHRIS WESTGATE      Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train and Under America: How Mainstream Reviews Represent the Guilty and Obscure the Economics of the U.S. Prison IndustryJACOB JUNTUNEN      About the Contributors      Index