Under the influence.(New Books)(Book Review)
American Theatre, February, 2004 by Wren, Celia
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THEATRE, CULTURE AND TEMPERANCE REFORM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA
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by John W. Frick, Cambridge University Press, New York. 256 pp, $60 cloth.
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MAYBE PROPAGANDA HAS GOTTEN A bad rap. The very word evokes icons of kitsch and bad art: red-kerchiefed Young Pioneers smiling down from Soviet posters; Reefer Madness; the wartime broadcasts of crazy Ezra Pound. And these days the theatre, specifically, prides itself on being a medium that's inherently polyphonic, relaying contrasting voices and points of view. A play, we like to think, is, at its best, ...
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