The plays of Sadakichi Hartmann.
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Title
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The plays of Sadakichi Hartmann.
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Identifier
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AAI9130324
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identifier
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9130324
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Creator
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Hodges, Peter Britt.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Charles Gattnig
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Date
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1991
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Theater | Literature, American
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Abstract
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Sadakichi Hartmann (1867-1944) was a noted art critic and writer in the United States during the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Remembered best for his pioneering contributions to photographic criticism, his career as an experimental American playwright at the turn of the century remains largely unknown to scholars.;Hartmann wrote over a dozen plays, over half of which were symbolist or post-symbolist works completed in the 1890s when the symbolist movement was giving rise to the artistic concepts that would influence writers and artists throughout the twentieth century. After pursuing his critical career in both photography and art in the first decades of the twentieth century, he returned to drama in the 1920s and 1930s and wrote several late works which reflected the enormous political, social, and artistic dislocations which redefined the purpose of art.;Hartmann's career as a dramatist is marked by consistent efforts to establish himself as the principal exponent of experimental and literary quality in American theatre. As a result, he was more often than not well ahead of his potential audience and his plays went unproduced and largely unrecognized outside of literary circles. Hartmann was nevertheless successful in pointing new directions for the American theatre which later critics and writers have attempted to rediscover.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
