Author: Charles MATHEWS (the Elder.)Publisher:
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Mathews in America; or, The theatrical wanderer: a cargo of new characters, original songs, and concluding piece of The wild goose chase, or The Inn at Baltimore, etc. (Entirely new entertainment.).
Author: Charles MATHEWS (the Elder.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Mathews in America ; Or, The Theatrical Wanderer
Author: Charles MathewsEntirely New Entertainment
Author: Charles MathewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Mathews in America
Author: Charles MathewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burlesques
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
... Mathews in America, Or, The Theatrical Wanderer
Author: Publisher:
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Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
... Mathews in America, Or, The Theatrical Wanderer
Author: Charles MathewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Entirely New Entertainment. Mathews in America; Or, The Theatrical Wanderer:
Author: Charles MathewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Yankee Theatre
Author: Francis HodgePublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292761546
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
The famous "Stage Yankees," with their eccentric New England dialect comedy, entertained audiences from Boston to New Orleans, from New York to London in the years between 1825 and 1850. They provided the creative energy for the development of an American-type character in early plays of native authorship. This book examines the full range of their theatre activity, not only as actors, but also as playmakers, and re-evaluates their contribution to the growth of the American stage. Yankee theatre was not an oddity, a passing fad, or an accident of entertainment; it was an honest exploitation of the materials of American life for an audience in search of its own identification. The delineation of the American character—a full-length realistic portrait in the context of stage comedy—was its projected goal; and though not the only method for such delineation, the theatre form was the most popular and extensive way of disseminating the American image. The Yankee actors openly borrowed from what literary sources were available to them, but because of their special position as actors, who were required to give flesh-and-blood imitations of people for the believable acceptance of others viewing the same people about them, they were forced to draw extensively on their actors' imaginations and to present the American as they saw him. If the image was too often an external one, it still revealed the Yankee as a hardy individual whose independence was a primary assumption; as a bargainer, whose techniques were more clever than England's sharpest penny-pincher; as a country person, more intelligent, sharper and keener in dealings than the city-bred type; as an American freewheeler who always landed on top, not out of naive honesty but out of a simple perception of other human beings and their gullibility. Much new evidence in this study is based on London productions, where the view of English audiences and critics was sharply focused on what Americans thought about themselves and the new culture of democracy emerging around them. The shift from America, the borrower, to America, the original doer, can be clearly seen in this stager activity. Yankee theatre, then, is an epitome of the emerging American after the Second War for Independence. Emerging nationalism meant emerging national definition. Yankee theatre thus led to the first cohesive body of American plays, the first American actors seen in London, and to a new realistic interpretation of the American in the "character" plays of the 1870s and 1880s.
Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-Up and Wigs
Author: Sidney Jackson JowersPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136746412
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
This is the first bibliography in its field, based on first-hand collations of the actual articles. International in scope, it includes publications found in public theatre libraries and archives of Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Florence, London, Milan, New York and Paris amongst others. Over 3500 detailed entries on separately published sources such as books, sales and exhibition catalogues and pamphlets provide an indispensible guide for theatre students, practitioners and historians. Indices cover designers, productions, actors and performers. The iconography provides an indexed record of over 6000 printed plates of performers in role, illustrating performance costume from the 18th to 20th century.
The Broadview Anthology of Nineteenth-Century British Performance
Author: Tracy C. DavisPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1551119005
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 685
Book Description
This collection provides a representative set of theatrical performances popular on the nineteenth-century British stage. All are newly edited critical editions that account for variant sources reflecting the process of rehearsal, licensing, and production. Detailed introductions and extensive notes explain the texts’ relationship to repertoires, the circulating discourses of intelligibility that constantly recombine in performance. The plays address the topical concerns of slavery, imperial conquest, capitalism, interculturalism, uprisings at home and abroad, modernist aesthetic innovation, and the celebration of collective identities. Adaptations from novels, travelogues, and other plays are discussed along with the theatrical history that sustained these works on the stage.