Author: Thomas Clark PollockPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
The Philadelphia Theatre in the Eighteenth Century, Thomas Clark Pollock, a Thesis...
Author: Thomas Clark PollockThe Philadelphia Theatre in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Thomas Clark PollockPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512818410
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Early American Theatre from the Revolution to Thomas Jefferson
Author: Heather S. NathansPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521825085
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This 2003 book examines the growth and influence of the theatre in the development of the young American Republic.
Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia
Author: Peter SchmitzPublisher: Brookline Books
ISBN: 1955041385
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
A collection of stories and fascinating facets of theater history in Philadelphia. From the founding of The Walnut Street Theatre and the beginning of the American circus to the world premiere performance of Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman, and from censorship and opposition to riots and deadly fires, this engaging collection of short, focused narratives introduces the reader to the often overlooked and frequently underappreciated topic of the history of theater in Philadelphia, and offer a new way of approaching the wider history of this unique and important American city. The stories are populated by some of the many notable visitors to the city’s theaters, including Oscar Wilde, Edmund Kean, John Wilkes Booth, Sarah Bernhardt, Ayn Rand, Tennessee Williams, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Muhammad Ali, Paul Robeson and Joseph Papp; and the stories of heroes of local theater including Edwin Forrest, Pearl Bailey, Molly Picon, and Charles Fuller and Kevin Bacon. Also putting in appearances are the mostly forgotten, but no less fascinating Annie Kemp Bowler “the Original Stalacta,” May Manning Lillile the Quaker Cowgirl, and tennis champion William (“Big Bill”) Tilden. All together, these lively and vivid stories—many of them little-known or unexplored—serve to form a larger narrative of the role that theater has played, and continues to play, in shaping and reflecting the texture of life in an American city.
An Introductory Study of the American People of the 18th Century Through Their Drama and Theatrical History
Author: Charles Lowell LeesPublisher:
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution
Author: Michael MeranzePublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442650699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Drawing on examples from different local and regional contexts, Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution demonstrates the many remarkably local ways that revolution and empire were experienced in London, Pennsylvania, Pitcairn Island, and points in between.
Drama, Theatre, and Identity in the American New Republic
Author: Jeffrey H. RichardsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139448048
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Drama, Theatre, and Identity in the American New Republic investigates the way in which theatre both reflects and shapes the question of identity in post-revolutionary American culture. In this 2005 book Richards examines a variety of phenomena connected to the stage, including closet Revolutionary political plays, British drama on American boards, American-authored stage plays, and poetry and fiction by early Republican writers. American theatre is viewed by Richards as a transatlantic hybrid in which British theatrical traditions in writing and acting provide material and templates by which Americans see and express themselves and their relationship to others. Through intensive analyses of plays both inside and outside of the early American 'canon', this book confronts matters of political, ethnic and cultural identity by moving from play text to theatrical context and from historical event to audience demography.
The Richmond Stage, 1784-1812
Author: Martin ShockleyPublisher: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Historic Landmarks of Philadelphia
Author: Roger W. MossPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812241068
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Architectural historian Moss and photographer Crane set out to celebrate the surviving historic architecture of Philadelphia. This lavishly illustrated book celebrates Philadelphia's evolution from a modest mercantile outpost of a colonial power to a world-renowned cosmopolitan city.