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Author : Rosemarie K. Bank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521563879
A study of pre-Civil War American theatre.
Author : John W. Frick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521817783
This book examines the role of temperance drama in American theatre and compares the American genre to its British counterpart.
Author : Don B. Wilmeth,Christopher Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998-02-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521472040
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 : M. Scott Phillips
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780817354572
The essays gathered together in Volume 15 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium investigate how, historically, the theatre has been perceived both as a source of moral anxiety and as an instrument of moral and social reform. Essays consider, among other subjects, ethnographic depictions of the savage “other” in Buffalo Bill’s engagement at the Columbian Exposition of 1893; the so-called “Moral Reform Melodrama” in the nineteenth century; charity theatricals and the ways they negotiated standards of middle-class respectability; the figure of the courtesan as a barometer of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century moral and sexual discourse; Aphra Behn’s subversion of Restoration patriarchal sexual norms in The Feigned Courtesans; and the controversy surrounding one production of Tony Kushner Angels in America, during which officials at one of the nation’s more prominent liberal arts colleges attempted to censor the production, a chilling reminder that academic and artistic freedom cannot be taken for granted in today’s polarized moral and political atmosphere.
Author : Mark R. Cheathem,Terry Corps
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442273207
This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
Author : Errol G. Hill,James V. Hatch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521624436
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Author : Robert M. Lewis
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801887482
Before phonographs and moving pictures, live performances dominated American popular entertainment. Carnivals, circuses, dioramas, magicians, mechanical marvels, musicians, and theatrical troupes—all visited rural fairgrounds, small-town opera houses, and big-city palaces around the country, giving millions of people an escape from their everyday lives for a dime or a quarter. In From Traveling Show to Vaudeville, Robert M. Lewis has assembled a remarkable collection of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century primary sources that document America's age of theatrical spectacle. In eight parts, Lewis explores, in turn, dime museums, minstrelsy, circuses, melodramas, burlesque shows, Wild West shows, amusement parks, and vaudeville. Included in this compendium are biographies, programs, ephemera produced by theatrical entrepreneurs to lure audiences to their shows, photographs, scripts, and song lyrics as well as newspaper accounts, reviews, and interviews with such figures as P. T. Barnum and Buffalo Bill Cody. Lewis also gives us reminiscences about and reactions to various shows by members of audiences, including such prominent writers as Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, O. Henry, and Maxim Gorky. Each section also includes a concise introduction that places the genre of spectacle into its historical and cultural context and suggests major interpretive themes. The book closes with a bibliographic essay that identifies relevant scholarly works. Many of the pieces collected here have not been published since their first appearance, making From Traveling Show to Vaudeville an indispensable resource for historians of popular culture, theater, and nineteenth-century American society.
Author : Jeffrey H. Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139448048
Drama, Theatre, and Identity in the American New Republic investigates the way in which theatre both reflects and shapes the question of identity in post-revolutionary American culture. In this 2005 book Richards examines a variety of phenomena connected to the stage, including closet Revolutionary political plays, British drama on American boards, American-authored stage plays, and poetry and fiction by early Republican writers. American theatre is viewed by Richards as a transatlantic hybrid in which British theatrical traditions in writing and acting provide material and templates by which Americans see and express themselves and their relationship to others. Through intensive analyses of plays both inside and outside of the early American 'canon', this book confronts matters of political, ethnic and cultural identity by moving from play text to theatrical context and from historical event to audience demography.
Author : John H. Houchin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139436489
John Houchin explores the impact of censorship in twentieth-century American theatre, arguing that theatrical censorship coincided with significant challenges to religious, political and cultural systems. The study provides a summary of theatre censorship in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and analyses key episodes from 1900 to 2000. These include attempts to censure Olga Nethersole for her production of Sappho in 1901 and the theatre riots of 1913 that greeted the Abbey Theatre's production of Playboy of the Western World. Houchin explores the efforts to suppress plays in the 1920s that dealt with transgressive sexual material and investigates Congress' politically motivated assaults on plays and actors during the 1930s and 1940s. He investigates the impact of racial violence, political assassinations and the Vietnam War on the trajectory of theatre in the 1960s and concludes by examining the response to gay activist plays such as Angels in America.
Author : Theresa Saxon
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748654093
This book provides a brief yet informative evaluation of the variety and complexity of theatrical endeavours in the United States, embracing all epochs of theatre history and situating American theatre as a lively, dynamic and diverse arena.
Author : Don B. Wilmeth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521835381
New and updated encyclopedic guide to American theatre, from its earliest history to the present.
Author : Michael D'Alessandro
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472133178
How popular culture helped to create class in nineteenth-century America
Author : Thomas A. Bogar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319684062
This book recounts the personal and professional life of Thomas Souness Hamblin (1800-1853), Shakespearean actor and Bowery Theatre manager. Primarily responsible for the popularity of “blood and thunder” melodramas with working class audiences in New York City, Hamblin discovered, trained and promoted many young actors and, especially, actresses who later became famous in their own right. He also epitomized the “sporting man” of mid-nineteenth century life, conducting a scandalous series of affairs and visits to Manhattan brothels, which cost him his marriage to Elizabeth Blanchard Hamblin (1799-1849) and made him the brunt of moralist, religious and journalistic crusades, notably that of James Gordon Bennett’s New York Herald. His machinations and perseverance through trying challenges, including several destructions of the Bowery Theatre by fire, extensive financial and legal complications, and the untimely deaths of several young protégées, earned him equal measures of admiration and opprobrium.
Author : John W. Frick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137566454
No play in the history of the American Stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin . This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduce the reader to the artists who created the plays and productions that created theatre history.
Author : Iris Smith Fischer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230100787
This collection of essays dissects American plays, movies and other performance types that examine America and its history and culture. From Amerindian stage performances to AIDS and post-9/11 America, it displays the various and important ways theatre and performance studies have examined and conversed with American culture and history.