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Author : Arthur Herman Wilson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of the Philadelphia Theatre, 1835 to 1855 written by Arthur Herman Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Herman Wilson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512819360
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of the Philadelphia Theatre, 1835-1855 written by Arthur Herman Wilson and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three volumes of a series that is to run to the present day and give complete theatrical records of their periods, with elaborate indexes of plays, players, and playwrights.
Author : Reese D. James
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512802832
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)
Download or read book Old Drury of Philadelphia written by Reese D. James and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the diary or daily account book of William Burke Wood, comanager with William Warren of the Chestnut Street Theatre, familiarly known as Old Drury.
Author : Thomas A. Bogar
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476606803
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Presidents Attend the Theatre written by Thomas A. Bogar and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-06-14 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not every presidential visit to the theatre is as famous as Lincoln's last night at Ford's, but American presidents attended the theatre long before and long after that ill-fated night. In 1751, George Washington saw his first play, The London Merchant, during a visit to Barbados. John Quincy Adams published dramatic critiques. William McKinley avoided the theatre while in office, on professional as well as moral grounds. Richard Nixon met his wife at a community theatre audition. Surveying 255 years, this volume examines presidential theatre-going as it has reflected shifting popular tastes in America.
Author : Jenna M. Gibbs
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421413388
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)
Download or read book Performing the Temple of Liberty written by Jenna M. Gibbs and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How popular theater, including blackface characters, reflected and influenced attitudes toward race, the slave trade, and ideas of liberty in early America. Jenna M. Gibbs explores the world of theatrical and related print production on both sides of the Atlantic in an age of remarkable political and social change. Her deeply researched study of working-class and middling entertainment covers the period of the American Revolution through the first half of the nineteenth century, examining controversies over the place of black people in the Anglo-American moral imagination. Taking a transatlantic and nearly century-long view, Performing the Temple of Liberty draws on a wide range of performed texts as well as ephemera—broadsides, ballads, and cartoons—and traces changes in white racial attitudes. Gibbs asks how popular entertainment incorporated and helped define concepts of liberty, natural rights, the nature of blackness, and the evils of slavery while also generating widespread acceptance, in America and in Great Britain, of blackface performance as a form of racial ridicule. Readers follow the migration of theatrical texts, images, and performers between London and Philadelphia. The story is not flattering to either the United States or Great Britain. Gibbs's account demonstrates how British portrayals of Africans ran to the sympathetic and to a definition of liberty that produced slave manumission in 1833 yet reflected an increasingly racialized sense of cultural superiority. On the American stage, the treatment of blacks devolved into a denigrating, patronizing view embedded both in blackface burlesque and in the idea of "Liberty," the figure of the white goddess. Performing the Temple of Liberty will appeal to readers across disciplinary lines of history, literature, theater history, and culture studies. Scholars and students interested in slavery and abolition, British and American politics and culture, and Atlantic history will also take an interest in this provocative work.
Author : Michael D'Alessandro
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472133179
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)
Download or read book Staged Readings written by Michael D'Alessandro and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How popular culture helped to create class in nineteenth-century America
Author : Don B. Wilmeth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521472043
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of American Theatre written by Don B. Wilmeth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-02-28 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of American Theatre is an authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theatre in all its dimensions, from theatre building to play writing, directors, performers, and designers. Engaging the theatre as a performance art, a cultural institution, and a fact of American social and political life, the History recognizes changing styles of presentation and performance and addresses the economic context that conditions the drama presented. The History approaches its subject with a full awareness of relevant developments in literary criticism, cultural analysis, and performance theory. At the same time, it is designed to be an accessible, challenging narrative. Volume One deals with the colonial inceptions of American theatre through the post-Civil War period: the European antecedents, the New World influences of the French and Spanish colonists, and the development of uniquely American traditions in tandem with the emergence of national identity.
Author : William Burke Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)
Download or read book Old Drury of Philadelphia written by William Burke Wood and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip S. Klein
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 027103839X
Total Pages : 651 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of Pennsylvania written by Philip S. Klein and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barry Witham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521308588
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Download or read book Theatre in the United States: Volume 1, 1750-1915: Theatre in the Colonies and the United States written by Barry Witham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-23 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the growth and development of theatre in the United States. Documents and commentary are arranged into chapters on business practice, acting, theatre buildings, drama, design, and audience behavior.
