Author: Joseph Norton IrelandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Records of the New York Stage, from 1750 to 1860
Author: Joseph Norton IrelandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Records of the New York Stage
Author: Joseph Norton IrelandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
"This major work on the early history of the American theater chronicles more than a century of the plays presented at the various New York houses and the performers who appeared in them. ... Joseph N. Ireland, a retired businessman, devoted himself to the history of the stage, also producing two biographies of actors."--Bookseller's accompanying material
A History of the American Theatre from Its Origins to 1832
Author: William DunlapPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252091035
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
As America passed from a mere venue for English plays into a country with its own nationally regarded playwrights, William Dunlap lived the life of a pioneer on the frontier of the fledgling American theatre, full of adventures, mishaps, and close calls. He adapted and translated plays for the American audience and wrote plays of his own as well, learning how theatres and theatre companies operated from the inside out. Dunlap's masterpiece, A History of American Theatre was the first of its kind, drawing on the author's own experiences. In it, he describes the development of theatre in New York, Philadelphia, and South Carolina as well as Congress's first attempts at theatrical censorship. Never before previously indexed, this edition also includes a new introduction by Tice L. Miller.
The Illustrated Catalogue of Literature Relating to American History and the Stage
Author: Charles C. MoreauPublisher:
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Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Restoration of Ford's Theatre, Washington D.C.
Author: George J. OlszewskiPublisher:
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Category : Ford's Theatre National Historic Site (Washington, D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Cambridge History of American Theatre
Author: Don B. WilmethPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521472043
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
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.
Brooklyn Takes the Stage
Author: Samuel L. LeiterPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147665137X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
America's third largest city until 1890, Brooklyn, New York, had a striking theatrical culture before it became a borough of Greater New York in 1898. As the city gained size and influence, more and more theatres arose, with at least 15 venues ultimately vying for favor. Too many theatregoers, however, preferred the discomforts of a ferry and horsecar trip to New York's playhouses instead of supporting the local product. Nor did the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883 do Brooklyn's theatres any favors. Manhattan's Goliath slayed Brooklyn's David. This first comprehensive study of Brooklyn's old-time theatre describes the city's early history, each of its many playhouses, its plays and actors (including nearly every foreign and domestic star), and its scandals and catastrophes, including the theatre fire that killed nearly 300. Brooklyn's ongoing struggle to establish theatres in a society dominated by anti-theatrical preachers, including Henry Ward Beecher, is detailed, as are all the ways that Brooklyn typified 19th century American theatre, from stock companies to combinations. Replete with fascinating anecdotes, this is the story of a major city from which theatre all but vanished before being reborn as a present-day artistic mecca.
The Stage History of Shakespear's King Richard the Third
Author: Alice Ida Perry WoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
A History of the American Drama
Author: Arthur Hobson QuinnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description