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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A rejoinder to The replies from England, etc. to certain statements circulated in this country respecting Mr. Macready. Together with an impartial history and review of the lamentable occurrences at the Astor place opera house, on the 10th of May, 1849. By an American citizen
Author: A Rejoinder to "The Replies from England, etc. to certain statements circulated in this country respecting Mr. Macready" together with an impartial history and review of the lamentable occurrences at the Astor Place Opera House, on the 10th of May, 1849. By an American Citizen
Author: William Charles MACREADYPublisher:
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Category : Astor Place Riot, New York, N.Y., 1849
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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A Rejoinder to "The Replies from England, Etc. to Certain Statements Circulated in this Country Respecting Mr. Macready."
Author: American citizenPublisher:
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Category : Astor Place Riot, New York, N.Y., 1849
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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William Charles Macready
Author: Robert William LoweShakespeare and Civil Unrest in Britain and the United States
Author: Mark BayerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000416895
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Shakespeare and Civil Unrest in Britain and the United States extends the growing body of scholarship on Shakespeare’s appropriation by examining how the plays have been invoked during periods of extreme social, political, and racial turmoil. How do the ways that Shakespeare is adapted, studied, and discussed during periods of civil conflict differ from wars between nations? And how have these conflicts, in turn, affected how Shakespeare has been understood in these two countries that, more than any others, continue to be deeply shaped by Shakespeare’s complex, enduring, and multivalent legacy? The essays in this volume collectively disclose a fascinating genealogy of how Shakespeare became a dynamic presence in factional discourse and explore the "war of words" that has accompanied civil wars and other instances of domestic disturbance. Whether as part of violent confrontations, mutinies, rebellions, or within the universal struggle for civil rights, Shakespeare’s repeated appearance during such turbulent moments is more than mere historical coincidence. Rather, its inflections on the contested meanings of citizenship, community, and political legitimacy demonstrate the generative influence of the plays on our understanding of internecine strife in both countries.
William Charles Macready
Author: William ArcherPublisher: London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Edwin Forrest
Author: Arthur W. BloomPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476635927
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Edwin Forrest was the foremost American actor of the nineteenth century. His advocacy of American, and specifically Jacksonian, themes made him popular in New York's Bowery Theatre. His rivalry with the English tragedian William Charles Macready led to the Astor Place Riot, and his divorce from Catharine Sinclair Forrest was one of the greatest social scandals of the period. This full-length biography examines Forrest's personal life while acknowledging the impossibility of separating it from his public image. Included is a historical chronology of every known performance the actor gave.
Acts of Manhood
Author: K. KippolaPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137068779
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Exploring the performance of masculinity on and off the nineteenth-century American stage, this book looks at the shift from the passionate muscularity to intellectual restraint as not a linear journey toward national refinement; but a multitude of masculinities fighting simultaneously for dominance and recognition.
Eminent Actors
Author: William ArcherPublisher:
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Reading Publics
Author: Tom GlynnPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823262650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
On May 11, 1911, the New York Public Library opened its “marble palace for book lovers” on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. This was the city’s first public library in the modern sense, a tax-supported, circulating collection free to every citizen. Since before the Revolution, however, New York’s reading publics had access to a range of “public libraries” as the term was understood by contemporaries. In its most basic sense a public library in the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries simply meant a shared collection of books that was available to the general public and promoted the public good. From the founding in 1754 of the New York Society Library up to 1911, public libraries took a variety of forms. Some of them were free, charitable institutions, while others required a membership or an annual subscription. Some, such as the Biblical Library of the American Bible Society, were highly specialized; others, like the Astor Library, developed extensive, inclusive collections. What all the public libraries of this period had in common, at least ostensibly, was the conviction that good books helped ensure a productive, virtuous, orderly republic—that good reading promoted the public good. Tom Glynn’s vivid, deeply researched history of New York City’s public libraries over the course of more than a century and a half illuminates how the public and private functions of reading changed over time and how shared collections of books could serve both public and private ends. Reading Publics examines how books and reading helped construct social identities and how print functioned within and across groups, including but not limited to socioeconomic classes. The author offers an accessible while scholarly exploration of how republican and liberal values, shifting understandings of “public” and “private,” and the debate over fiction influenced the development and character of New York City’s public libraries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Reading Publics is an important contribution to the social and cultural history of New York City that firmly places the city’s early public libraries within the history of reading and print culture in the United States.