A History Of The Philadelphia Theatre 1835 1855
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Author | : Arthur Herman Wilson |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 736 |
Release | : 2017-01-30 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1512819360 |
The first three volumes of a series that is to run to the present day and give complete theatrical records of their periods, with elaborate indexes of plays, players, and playwrights.
Author | : Arthur Herman Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Theater |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Philip S. Klein |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 651 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 027103839X |
Author | : Shauna Vey |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2015-10-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0809334380 |
"This study of the daily work lives of five members of the Marsh Troupe, a nineteenth-century professional acting company composed primarily of children, sheds light on the construction of idealized childhood inside and outside the American theatre"--
Author | : Don B. Wilmeth |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 1998-02-28 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521472043 |
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.
Author | : Peter Schmitz |
Publisher | : Brookline Books |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2024-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1955041385 |
A collection of stories and fascinating facets of theater history in Philadelphia. From the founding of The Walnut Street Theatre and the beginning of the American circus to the world premiere performance of Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman, and from censorship and opposition to riots and deadly fires, this engaging collection of short, focused narratives introduces the reader to the often overlooked and frequently underappreciated topic of the history of theater in Philadelphia, and offer a new way of approaching the wider history of this unique and important American city. The stories are populated by some of the many notable visitors to the city’s theaters, including Oscar Wilde, Edmund Kean, John Wilkes Booth, Sarah Bernhardt, Ayn Rand, Tennessee Williams, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Muhammad Ali, Paul Robeson and Joseph Papp; and the stories of heroes of local theater including Edwin Forrest, Pearl Bailey, Molly Picon, and Charles Fuller and Kevin Bacon. Also putting in appearances are the mostly forgotten, but no less fascinating Annie Kemp Bowler “the Original Stalacta,” May Manning Lillile the Quaker Cowgirl, and tennis champion William (“Big Bill”) Tilden. All together, these lively and vivid stories—many of them little-known or unexplored—serve to form a larger narrative of the role that theater has played, and continues to play, in shaping and reflecting the texture of life in an American city.
Author | : Barry Witham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1996-02-23 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521308588 |
Describes the growth and development of theatre in the United States. Documents and commentary are arranged into chapters on business practice, acting, theatre buildings, drama, design, and audience behavior.
Author | : Robert W. Johannsen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1988-01-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019536418X |
For mid-19th-century Americans, the Mexican War was not only a grand exercise in self-identity, legitimizing the young republic's convictions of mission and destiny to a doubting world; it was also the first American conflict to be widely reported in the press and to be waged against an alien foe in a distant and exotic land. It provided a window onto the outside world and promoted an awareness of a people and a land unlike any Americans had known before. This rich cultural history examines the place of the Mexican War in the popular imagination of the era. Drawing on military and travel accounts, newspaper dispatches, and a host of other sources, Johannsen vividly recreates the mood and feeling of the period--its unbounded optimism and patriotic pride--and adds a new dimension to our understanding of both the Mexican War and America itself.
Author | : K. Meira Goldberg |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2022-01-18 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1527579425 |
This collection of essays poses a series of questions revolving around nonsense, cacophony, queerness, race, and the dancing body. How can flamenco, as a diasporic complex of performance and communities of practice frictionally and critically bound to the complexities of Spanish history, illuminate theories of race and identity in performance? How can we posit, and argue for, genealogical relationships within and between genres across the vast expanses of the African—and Roma—diaspora? Neither are the essays presented here limited to flamenco, nor, consequently, are the responses to these questions reduced to this topic. What all the contributions here do share is the wish to come together, across disciplines and subject areas, within the academy and without, in the whirling, raucous, and messy spaces where the body is free—to celebrate its questioning, as well as the depths of the wisdom and knowledge it holds and sometimes reveals.
Author | : Charles Durang |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2007-09-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0809513064 |
The Greenes were representative of a class of journeymen actors, who received but little attention by chroniclers of early nineteenth-century theatre history. Along with hundreds of other craftsmen of their day, they experienced frequent moments of tribulation and rare occasions of triumph-respected artists who bore their daily vicissitudes as an expected part of the theatrical life. They traveled from place to place applying their craft, appearing with many of the major performers of the era. Mrs. Greene's personal memoirs were originally serialized in The New York Clipper in the 1860s by Charles Durang, who supplied additional material from his experiences as an actor, promoter, and dancing master. The original publication has now been greatly expanded by William L. Slout. Contains a helpful Chronology, comprehensive Notes, and a detailed Bibliography, and Index.