Author: Harry SeymourPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Aunt Dinah's Pledge
Author: Harry SeymourPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Aunt Dinah's Pledge
Author: Theatre, Culture and Temperance Reform in Nineteenth-Century America
Author: John W. FrickPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521817781
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This book examines the role of temperance drama in American theatre and compares the American genre to its British counterpart.
Historical Dictionary of American Theater
Author: James FisherPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 081087833X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings covers the history of theater as well as the literature of America from 1538 to 1880. The years covered by this volume features the rise of the popular stage in American during the colonial era and the first century of the United States of America, with an emphasis on its practitioners, including such figures as Lewis Hallam, David Douglass, Mercy Otis Warren, Edwin Forrest, Charlotte Cushman, Joseph Jefferson, Ida Aldridge, Dion Boucicault, Edwin Booth, and many others. The Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings covers the history of early American Theatre through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on actors and actresses, directors, playwrights, producers, genres, notable plays and theatres. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the early American Theater.
Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787-1861
Author: Heather S. NathansPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521870119
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
For almost a hundred years before Uncle Tom's Cabin burst on to the scene in 1852, the American theatre struggled to represent the evils of slavery. Slavery and Sentiment examines how both black and white Americans used the theatre to fight negative stereotypes of African Americans in the United States.
Catalog of the Theatre and Drama Collections
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Plays of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Author: The Modern Standard Drama
Author: Epes SargentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description