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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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America's Lost Plays
Author: America's Lost Plays: The heart of Maryland & other plays by David Belasco
Author: Barrett Harper ClarkPublisher:
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
America's Lost Plays: Glaucus & other plays, by George Henry Boker
Author: Barrett Harper ClarkPublisher:
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
America's Lost Plays: The last duel in Spain & other plays, by John Howard Payne
Author: Barrett Harper ClarkPublisher:
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Chicorel Theater Index to Plays in Anthologies and Collections
Author: The Cambridge History of American Theatre
Author: Don B. WilmethPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521651790
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
The second volume of the authoritative, multi-volume Cambridge History of American Theatre, first published in 1999, begins in the post-Civil War period and traces the development of American theatre up to 1945. It covers all aspects of theatre from plays and playwrights, through actors and acting, to theatre groups and directors. Topics examined include vaudeville and popular entertainment, European influences, theatre in and beyond New York, the rise of the Little Theatre movement, changing audiences, modernism, the Federal Theatre movement, scenography, stagecraft, and architecture. Contextualising chapters explore the role of theatre within the context of American social and cultural history, and the role of American theatre in relation to theatre in Europe and beyond. This definitive history of American theatre includes contributions from the following distinguished academics - Thomas Postlewait, John Frick, Tice L. Miller, Ronald Wainscott, Brenda Murphy, Mark Fearnow, Brooks McNamara, Thomas Riis, Daniel J. Watermeier, Mary C. Henderson, and Warren Kliewer.
Augustin Daly's Second Revival of the Merry Wives of Windsor ...
Author: Glen W. HaleyAmerica's Lost Plays: The cowled lover and other plays, by R.M. Byrd
Author: Barrett Harper ClarkPublisher:
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Entertaining the Nation
Author: Tice L. MillerPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809327782
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In this survey of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American drama, Tice L. Miller examines American plays written before a canon was established in American dramatic literature and provides analyses central to the culture that produced them. Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries evaluates plays in the early years of the republic, reveals shifts in taste from the classical to the contemporary in the 1840s and 1850s, and considers the increasing influence of realism at the end of the nineteenth century. Miller explores the relationship between American drama and societal issues during this period. While never completely shedding its English roots, says Miller, the American drama addressed issues important on this side of the Atlantic such as egalitarianism, republicanism, immigration, slavery, the West, Wall Street, and the Civil War. In considering the theme of egalitarianism, the volume notes Alexis de Tocqueville’s observation in 1831 that equality was more important to Americans than liberty. Also addressed is the Yankee character, which became a staple in American comedy for much of the nineteenth century. Miller analyzes several English plays and notes how David Garrick’s reforms in London were carried over to the colonies. Garrick faced an increasingly middle-class public, offers Miller, and had to make adjustments to plays and to his repertory to draw an audience. The volumealso looks at the shift in drama that paralleled the one in political power from the aristocrats who founded the nation to Jacksonian democrats. Miller traces how the proliferation of newspapers developed a demand for plays that reflected contemporary society and details how playwrights scrambled to put those symbols of the outside world on stage to appeal to the public. Steamships and trains, slavery and adaptations of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and French influences are presented as popular subjects during that time. Entertaining the Nation effectively outlines the civilizing force of drama in the establishment and development of the nation, ameliorating differences among the various theatergoing classes, and provides a microcosm of the changes on and off the stage in America during these two centuries.
America
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
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