Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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The Life of David Belasco
Author: William WinterPublisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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THE LIFE OF AUGUSTIN DALY
Author: JOSEPH FRANCIS DALYCuriosities of the American Stage
Author: Laurence HuttonPublisher: New York Harper 1891.
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Examines and critiques American theater and actors.
Album of Genealogy and Biography, Cook County, Illinois
Author: The Armies of the Streets
Author: Adrian CookPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813162556
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
In July 1863 New York City experienced widespread rioting unparalleled in the history of the nation. Here for the first time is a scholarly analysis of the Draft Riots, dealing with motives and with the reasons for the recurring civil disorders in nineteenth-century New York: the appalling living conditions, the corruption of the civic government, and the geographical and economic factors that led up to the social upheaval.
The History of Southern Drama
Author: Charles S. WatsonPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813149991
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Mention southern drama at a cocktail party or in an American literature survey, and you may hear cries for "Stella!" or laments for "gentleman callers." Yet southern drama depends on much more than a menagerie of highly strung spinsters and steel magnolias. Charles Watson explores this field from its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century roots through the southern Literary Renaissance and Tennessee Williams's triumphs to the plays of Horton Foote, winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize. Such well known modern figures as Lillian Hellman and DuBose Heyward earn fresh looks, as does Tennessee Williams's changing depiction of the South—from sensitive analysis to outraged indictment—in response to the Civil Rights Movement. Watson links the work of the early Charleston dramatists and of Espy Williams, first modern dramatist of the South, to later twentieth-century drama. Strong heroines in plays of the Confederacy foreshadow the spunk of Tennessee Williams's Amanda Wingfield. Claiming that Beth Henley matches the satirical brilliance of Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor, Watson connects her zany humor to 1840s New Orleans farces. With this work, Watson has at last answered the call for a single-volume, comprehensive history of the South's dramatic literature. With fascinating detail and seasoned perception, he reveals the rich heritage of southern drama.
Prominent and Progressive Americans
Author: Women Out of Their Sphere
Author: Anne McLayHazel Kirke
Author: Steele MacKayePublisher:
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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