Author: Eugene Elvin Rydahl
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
A History of the Legitimate Theatre in East Saginaw, Michigan, from 1860-1884
Author: Eugene Elvin Rydahl
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima
Author: Gillian M Rodger
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252077342
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
In this rich, imaginative survey of variety musical theater, Gillian M. Rodger masterfully chronicles the social history and class dynamics of the robust, nineteenth-century American theatrical phenomenon that gave way to twentieth-century entertainment forms such as vaudeville and comedy on radio and television. Fresh, bawdy, and unabashedly aimed at the working class, variety honed in on its audience's fascinations, emerging in the 1840s as a vehicle to accentuate class divisions and stoke curiosity about gender and sexuality. Cross-dressing acts were a regular feature of these entertainments, and Rodger profiles key male impersonators Annie Hindle and Ella Wesner while examining how both gender and sexuality gave shape to variety. By the last two decades of the nineteenth century, variety theater developed into a platform for ideas about race and whiteness. As some in the working class moved up into the middling classes, they took their affinity for variety with them, transforming and broadening middle-class values. Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima places the saloon keepers, managers, male impersonators, minstrels, acrobats, singers, and dancers of the variety era within economic and social contexts by examining the business models of variety shows and their primarily white, working-class urban audiences. Rodger traces the transformation of variety from sexualized entertainment to more family-friendly fare, a domestication that mirrored efforts to regulate the industry, as well as the adoption of aspects of middle-class culture and values by the shows' performers, managers, and consumers.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252077342
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
In this rich, imaginative survey of variety musical theater, Gillian M. Rodger masterfully chronicles the social history and class dynamics of the robust, nineteenth-century American theatrical phenomenon that gave way to twentieth-century entertainment forms such as vaudeville and comedy on radio and television. Fresh, bawdy, and unabashedly aimed at the working class, variety honed in on its audience's fascinations, emerging in the 1840s as a vehicle to accentuate class divisions and stoke curiosity about gender and sexuality. Cross-dressing acts were a regular feature of these entertainments, and Rodger profiles key male impersonators Annie Hindle and Ella Wesner while examining how both gender and sexuality gave shape to variety. By the last two decades of the nineteenth century, variety theater developed into a platform for ideas about race and whiteness. As some in the working class moved up into the middling classes, they took their affinity for variety with them, transforming and broadening middle-class values. Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima places the saloon keepers, managers, male impersonators, minstrels, acrobats, singers, and dancers of the variety era within economic and social contexts by examining the business models of variety shows and their primarily white, working-class urban audiences. Rodger traces the transformation of variety from sexualized entertainment to more family-friendly fare, a domestication that mirrored efforts to regulate the industry, as well as the adoption of aspects of middle-class culture and values by the shows' performers, managers, and consumers.
American Regional Theatre History to 1900
Author: Carl F. W. Larson
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Excludes New York City.
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Excludes New York City.
Michigan History
Edwin Booth
Author: L Oggel
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Edwin Booth was the foremost Shakespearean actor in late nineteenth-century America, enjoying almost mythic status. This comprehensive analysis and documentation of his career provides an aperture from which to view theatre and society of the period. The scholarly bibliography of over 1,000 annotated entries includes substantive writings about Booth in books, journals, and dissertations covering 130 years during and after his career as well as ephemeral references to Booth in the major journals of his day and a section of specialized reference materials relating to Booth. Among its unique features are a section on Booth's own writings and a section on Booth manuscript materials identified in sixty-four repositories in the United States and England. A biographical sketch analyzes Booth's career in terms of the major periods and upheavals in his life: his early fame, the death of his first wife, the assassination of President Lincoln by his brother, his management of Booth's Theatre, and his national and international tours. Accompanying this is a chronology of major events, a genealogical chart, and reproductions of portraits and playbills. Fully indexed, this volume makes a wealth of material readily available to Booth scholars as well as to others researching related theatre and social history.
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Edwin Booth was the foremost Shakespearean actor in late nineteenth-century America, enjoying almost mythic status. This comprehensive analysis and documentation of his career provides an aperture from which to view theatre and society of the period. The scholarly bibliography of over 1,000 annotated entries includes substantive writings about Booth in books, journals, and dissertations covering 130 years during and after his career as well as ephemeral references to Booth in the major journals of his day and a section of specialized reference materials relating to Booth. Among its unique features are a section on Booth's own writings and a section on Booth manuscript materials identified in sixty-four repositories in the United States and England. A biographical sketch analyzes Booth's career in terms of the major periods and upheavals in his life: his early fame, the death of his first wife, the assassination of President Lincoln by his brother, his management of Booth's Theatre, and his national and international tours. Accompanying this is a chronology of major events, a genealogical chart, and reproductions of portraits and playbills. Fully indexed, this volume makes a wealth of material readily available to Booth scholars as well as to others researching related theatre and social history.
United States Theatre
Author: Robert Silvester
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Doctoral Dissertations on American Theatre
Author: Jere D. Wade
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Educational Theatre Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College and school drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College and school drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
American Dissertations on the Drama and the Theatre
Author: Fredric M. Litto
Publisher: Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Publisher: Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Subject Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description