Download or read book Accelerated Grimace; Expressionism in the American Drama of the 1920s written by Mardi Valgemae and published by Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1920Ezra Pound wrote: "The Age demanded an image / Of its accelerated grimace," which in the instance of American drama of the 1920s, Valgemae shows, was expressionism. Valgemae goes on to trace the exciting new movement in the theatre and to demonstrate its continuing and vital influence on the theatre today. Thus the book provides an invalu­able guide to much of twentieth-century theatre in America.