Author: David Stewart HawesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1384
Book Description
John Brougham as American Playwright and Man of the Theatre
Author: David Stewart HawesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1384
Book Description
JOHN BROUGHAM AS AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT AND MAN OF THE THEATRE
Author: David S. HawesHistorical 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.
Dramas from the American Theatre, 1762-1909
Author: Richard MoodyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
A History of the American Drama
Author: Arthur Hobson QuinnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Melodrama Unveiled
Author: David GrimstedPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520059962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
David Grimsted's Melodrama Unveiled explores early American drama to try to understand why such severely limited plays were so popular for so long. Concerned with both the plays and the dramatic settings that gave them life, Grimsted offers us rich descriptions of the interaction of performers, audiences, critics, managers, and stage mechanics. Because these plays had to appeal immediately and directly to diverse audiences, they provide dramatic clues to the least common denominator of social values and concerns. In considering both the context and content of popular culture, Grimsted's book suggests how theater reflected the rapidly changing society of antebellum America.
Writings on American History
Author: The Cambridge History of American Theatre
Author: Don B. WilmethPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521472043
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
The Cambridge History of American Theatre is an authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theatre in all its dimensions, from theatre building to play writing, directors, performers, and designers. Engaging the theatre as a performance art, a cultural institution, and a fact of American social and political life, the History recognizes changing styles of presentation and performance and addresses the economic context that conditions the drama presented. The History approaches its subject with a full awareness of relevant developments in literary criticism, cultural analysis, and performance theory. At the same time, it is designed to be an accessible, challenging narrative. Volume One deals with the colonial inceptions of American theatre through the post-Civil War period: the European antecedents, the New World influences of the French and Spanish colonists, and the development of uniquely American traditions in tandem with the emergence of national identity.
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
Author: American Drama to 1900
Author: Walter J. MeservePublisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description