America S Lost Plays Vol Iv Davy Crockett And Other Plays
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America's Lost Plays, Vol. IV, DAVY CROCKETT and Other Plays by J.J. McCloskey,Lester Waldack Pdf
This series collects the complete scripts of 100 selected, previously unpublished plays by 19th-Century American playwrights. Volume 4 features "Across the Continent," by J.J. McCloskey; "Rosedale," by Lester Wallack, "Davy Crockett," by Frank Murdock; "Our Boarding House," by Leonard Grover; and "Sam's of Posen," by G.H. Jessop.
DAVY CROCKETT and Other Plays by Frank Murdoch,Lester Waldack,J. J. McCloskey Pdf
This series collects the complete scripts of 100 selected, previously unpublished plays by 19th-Century American playwrights. Volume 4 features "Across the Continent," by J.J. McCloskey; "Rosedale," by Lester Wallack, "Davy Crockett," by Frank Murdock; "Our Boarding House," by Leonard Grover; and "Sam's of Posen," by G.H. Jessop.
Early-Twentieth-Century Frontier Dramas on Broadway by R. Wattenberg Pdf
Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of contemporary dramas not only indicate the popularity of these plays but also tell us that these plays offered views about the frontier that original audiences could and did embrace.
Author : Roger A. Hall Publisher : Cambridge University Press Page : 304 pages File Size : 54,9 Mb Release : 2001-08-16 Category : Drama ISBN : 0521793203
"Something Dreadful and Grand" by Stephen Watt Pdf
Elaborate analogies between Irish and Jewish history, between Irish and Jewish subjectivities, occur with surprising frequency throughout American literature. They recall James Joyce's Leopold Bloom and episodes of Ulysses, Douglas Hyde's analogies during the Celtic Revival between learning Hebrew and learning Irish, and a myriad of claims of an unusual relationship between these peoples that goes beyond comparisons of their respective diasporic histories. But how does one describe this uncanny relationship, one often marked by hostility, affinity, and ambivalence, without essentializing people whose origins, class affiliation, educations, life experiences, and so on are enormously different? "Something Dreadful and Grand": American Literature and the Irish-Jewish Unconscious describes a complex allosemitism and allohibernianism through a variety of cultural texts with which immigrant Irish and Jewish Americans were most engaged: popular music of the Tin Pan Alley era, tenement literature from Anzia Yezierska and James T. Farrell through the posthumous publication of Henry Roth's An American Type, and proletarian and socialist-inflected drama by Elmer Rice, Clifford Odets, Eugene O'Neill, and Arthur Miller as they engaged the Irish drama of such writers as Bernard Shaw and Sean O'Casey. In an effort to trace both the genealogy and more recent trajectory of immigrant drama and fiction, chapters explore both the post-Famine melodramatic stage of the nineteenth century and a host of more contemporary texts from newer generations of immigrants. Throughout, the book argues for a "circum-North Atlantic" culture in which texts from Ireland, Britain, Irish America, and Jewish America contribute substantially to both a modern American literature and to understandings of the terms "Irish" and "Jewish." How can we really know what these terms mean as they delimit or erase totally the differences inherent to them? Borrowing a term from psychoanalytic and political theory, "Something Dreadful and Grand" explores the larger dimensions of this Irish-Jewish unconscious underlying cultural production in America, arguing for the centrality of these two diasporic groups to the development of American popular music, fiction, and especially drama.
Puccini’s La fanciulla del West and American Musical Identity by Kathryn M. Fenton Pdf
On 10 December 1910, Giacomo Puccini’s seventh opera, La fanciulla del West, had its premiere before a sold-out audience at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera House. The performance was the Metropolitan Opera Company’s first world premiere by any composer. By all accounts, the premiere was an unambiguous success and the event itself recognized as a major moment in New York cultural history. The initial public opinion matched Puccini’s own evaluation of his opera. He called it "the best he had ever written" and expected it to become as popular as La Bohème. Yet the music reviews tell a different story. Marked by ambivalence, the reviews expose the New York City critics’ struggle to reconcile the opera they expected to see with the one they actually saw, and the opera itself became embroiled in controversy over the essence of musical Americanness and the nativist perception that a uniquely American national opera tradition continued to elude both American- and foreign-born opera composers. This book seeks to account for the differences between Puccini’s own assessments of the opera and those of its first audience. Offering transcriptions of the central reviews and of letters unavailable elsewhere, the book provides a historically informed understanding of La fanciulla del West and the reception of this European work as it intersected with both opera production and consumption in the United States and with the process of American musical identity formation during the very period that Americans actively sought to eradicate European cultural influences. As such, it offers a window into the development of nativism and "cosmopolitan nationalism" in New York City’s musical life during the first decade of the twentieth century.
Author : Richard Moody Publisher : Cleveland : World Publishing Company Page : 934 pages File Size : 51,6 Mb Release : 1966 Category : American drama ISBN : UOM:39015066077622
