The Black Crook, and Other Nineteenth Century American Plays
Author | : Myron Matlaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 1967 |
ISBN-10 | : UCSC:32106002058698 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
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Author | : Myron Matlaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 1967 |
ISBN-10 | : UCSC:32106002058698 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Author | : Myron Matlaw |
Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2001 |
ISBN-10 | : 1557834644 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781557834645 |
Rating | : 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
(Applause Books). Seven hits that have been the staples of the American dramatic repertoire. Myron Matlaw's introduction provides a splendid survey of the development of American drama. Individual prefaces focus each work in the perspective of its historical context.
Author | : Myron Matlaw |
Publisher | : Amereon Limited |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : |
ISBN-10 | : 0848823672 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780848823672 |
Rating | : 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Author | : Myron Matlaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1967 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:1069265942 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Author | : Don B. Wilmeth |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 1998 |
ISBN-10 | : 0521651794 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780521651790 |
Rating | : 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
The second volume of the authoritative, multi-volume Cambridge History of American Theatre, first published in 1999, begins in the post-Civil War period and traces the development of American theatre up to 1945. It covers all aspects of theatre from plays and playwrights, through actors and acting, to theatre groups and directors. Topics examined include vaudeville and popular entertainment, European influences, theatre in and beyond New York, the rise of the Little Theatre movement, changing audiences, modernism, the Federal Theatre movement, scenography, stagecraft, and architecture. Contextualising chapters explore the role of theatre within the context of American social and cultural history, and the role of American theatre in relation to theatre in Europe and beyond. This definitive history of American theatre includes contributions from the following distinguished academics - Thomas Postlewait, John Frick, Tice L. Miller, Ronald Wainscott, Brenda Murphy, Mark Fearnow, Brooks McNamara, Thomas Riis, Daniel J. Watermeier, Mary C. Henderson, and Warren Kliewer.
Author | : Robert M. Lewis |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2007-10-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780801899942 |
ISBN-13 | : 080189994X |
Rating | : 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
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.
Author | : Michael C. C. Adams |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 0803210353 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780803210356 |
Rating | : 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Fighting for Defeat argues that the Union army’s lack of success in the eastern theater early in the Civil War was due largely to its fear that the Confederate army was invincible. Certain to arouse discussion, this study by Michael C. C. Adams combines probing social and psychological analysis, blood-rushing description of events, and candid pictures of President Lincoln, and Generals George McClellan and Ulysses Grant, among many others. It was first published in 1978 with the main title Our Masters the Rebels.
Author | : A. Favorini |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2008-12-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780230617162 |
ISBN-13 | : 0230617166 |
Rating | : 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
This innovative study examines the role of memory in the history of theatre and drama. Favorini analyzes issues of memory in self-construction, collective memory, the clash of memory and history and even explores what the work of cognitive scientists can teach us about brain function and our response to drama.
Author | : Cather Studies |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2007-11-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780803209916 |
ISBN-13 | : 0803209916 |
Rating | : 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Volume 7 of the Cather Studies series explores Willa Cather’s iconic status and its problems within popular and literary culture. Not only are Cather’s own life and work subject to enshrinement, but as a writer, she herself often returned to the motifs of canonization and to the complex relationship between the onlooker and the idealized object. Through textual study of her published novels and her behind-the-scenes campaign and publicity writing in service of her novels, the reader comes to understand the extent to which, despite her legendary claims and commitment to privacy, Willa Cather helped to orchestrate her own iconic status.
Author | : Denise L. Montgomery |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 834 |
Release | : 2011-08-11 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780810877214 |
ISBN-13 | : 081087721X |
Rating | : 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume of Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections is the standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States throughout the 20th century and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors.