Author: Marion Victor MichalakPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
The Management of Augustin Daly's Stock Company, 1869-1899
Author: Marion Victor MichalakPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
THE MANAGEMENT OF AUGUSTIN DALY'S STOCK COMPANY : 1869 - 1899
Author: MARION V. MICHALAKPlays by Augustin Daly
Author: Don M. B. WilmethPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521240901
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The American playwright and manager-director Augustin Daly dominated the theatrical scene in the United States during the last half of the nineteenth century. His plays and productions set a new standard for American theatre and exerted a strong influence in England, beginning with a first European tour in 1884 and culminating in the opening of Daly's own theatre in London in 1893. Daly, with the assistance of his brother Joseph, had over ninety of his plays or adaptations performed. This unique collection brings together three disparate examples from his prolific output: A Flash of Lightning (1868), Horizon (1871) and Love on Crutches (1884). Daly, an exceptional contriver of theatrical effects, offered the theatre of the 1870s and 1880s melodramas and comedies greatly superior to those of his competitors. These three plays represent the range and energy of his talent.
Strange Duets
Author: Kim MarraPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587297418
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Autocratic male impresarios increasingly dominated the American stage between 1865 and 1914. Many rose from poor immigrant roots and built their own careers by making huge stars out of “undiscovered,” Anglo-identified actresses. Reflecting the antics of self-made industrial empire-builders and independent, challenging New Women, these theatrical potentates and their protégées gained a level of wealth and celebrity comparable to that of Hollywood stars today. In her engaging and provocative Strange Duets, Kim Marra spotlights three passionate impresario-actress relationships of exceptional duration that encapsulated the social tensions of the day and strongly influenced the theatre of the twentieth century. Augustin Daly and Ada Rehan, Charles Frohman and Maude Adams, and David Belasco and Mrs. Leslie Carter reigned over “legitimate” Broadway theatre, the venue of greatest social cachet for the monied classes. Unlike impresarios and actresses in vaudeville and burlesque, they produced full-length spoken drama that involved special rigors of training and rehearsal to sustain a character’s emotional “truth” as well as a high level of physical athleticism and endurance. Their efforts compelled fascination at a time when most people believed women’s emotions were seated primarily in the reproductive organs and thus were fundamentally embodied and sexual in nature. While the impresario ostensibly exercised full control over his leading lady, showing fashionable audiences that the exciting but unruly New Woman could be both tamed and enjoyed, she acquired a power of her own that could bring him to his knees.Kim Marra combines methods of cultural, gender, and sexuality studies with theatre history to explore the vexed mutual dependency between these status-seeking Svengalis and their alternately willing and resistant leading ladies. She illuminates how their on- and off-stage performances, highly charged in this Darwinian era with “racial” as well as gender, sexual, and class dynamics, tapped into the contradictory fantasies and aspirations of their audiences. Played out against a backdrop of enormous cultural and institutional transformation, the volatile romance of Daly and Rehan, closeted homosexuality of Frohman and Adams, and carnal expiations of Belasco and Carter produced strange duets indeed.
The National Union Catalogs, 1963-
Author: National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Doctoral Dissertations on American Theatre
Author: Jere D. WadePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
The National union catalog, 1968-1972
Author: American Dissertations on the Drama and the Theatre
Author: Fredric M. LittoPublisher: Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Bronson Howard, Dean of American Dramatists
Author: Lloyd Anton FrererPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Between 1842 and 1908, Bronson Howard wrote 27 plays which appeared under 39 different titles, and had opening nights in New York, London and Berlin. This study is both a historical biography and critical analysis of the literature, concluding with an attempt to place his work in critical perspective both in terms of his own era, and ours. In addition to his best-known play, the often-anthologized civil war spectacle Shenandoah, it examines his other works such as Saratoga, Young Mrs Winthrop, One of Our Girls and The Henrietta.