Author: John Arthur FraserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The Showman's Ward
Author: John Arthur FraserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Artemus Ward: his book, or, The confessions and experiences of a showman. Repr
Author: Charles Farrar BrownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
The Genial Showman
Author: Edward Peron HingstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Artemus Ward, His Book
Author: Artemus WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Genial Showman, Reminiscences of the Life of Artemus Ward and Pictures of a Showman's Carrer in the Western World
Author: Edward Peron HingstonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338544179X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
The Genial Showman
Author: Edward P. HingstonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382108763
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Artemus Ward: His Book
Author: Charles Farrer BrownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The Complete Works of Artemus Ward
Author: Artemus WardPublisher: Musson, [188-?]
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Anecdotes, stories and essays about politics, Mormons, Brigham Young, Joseph Smith, Salt Lake City, Utah, Canada, Mexico. "Many Humorous Illustrations."
The genial showman, reminiscences of the life of 'Artemus Ward'.
Author: Edward Peron HingstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
From Traveling Show to Vaudeville
Author: Robert M. LewisPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801870873
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Before phonographs and moving pictures, live performances dominated American popular entertainment. Carnivals, circuses, dioramas, magicians, mechanical marvels, musicians, and theatrical troupes—all visited rural fairgrounds, small-town opera houses, and big-city palaces around the country, giving millions of people an escape from their everyday lives for a dime or a quarter. In From Traveling Show to Vaudeville, Robert M. Lewis has assembled a remarkable collection of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century primary sources that document America's age of theatrical spectacle. In eight parts, Lewis explores, in turn, dime museums, minstrelsy, circuses, melodramas, burlesque shows, Wild West shows, amusement parks, and vaudeville. Included in this compendium are biographies, programs, ephemera produced by theatrical entrepreneurs to lure audiences to their shows, photographs, scripts, and song lyrics as well as newspaper accounts, reviews, and interviews with such figures as P. T. Barnum and Buffalo Bill Cody. Lewis also gives us reminiscences about and reactions to various shows by members of audiences, including such prominent writers as Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, O. Henry, and Maxim Gorky. Each section also includes a concise introduction that places the genre of spectacle into its historical and cultural context and suggests major interpretive themes. The book closes with a bibliographic essay that identifies relevant scholarly works. Many of the pieces collected here have not been published since their first appearance, making From Traveling Show to Vaudeville an indispensable resource for historians of popular culture, theater, and nineteenth-century American society.