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The New Morality Review: Protofeminism and Quaint Sophistication Circa 1911 by Jonathan Mandell

Seeing "The New Morality" the day after Thomas Bradshaw's sex-plicit “Fulfillment" gave the title of Harold Chapin's century-old comedy of manners far more irony than the playwright surely intended. Chapin set "The New Morality" aboard an upper-class summer houseboat on the Thames in 1911, which is probably the year he wrote it. Four year later, […]

SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM on September 23, 2015

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