Annals of the New York Stage: 1865-1870
Author | : George Clinton Densmore Odell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 908 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Theater |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : George Clinton Densmore Odell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 908 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Theater |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Felicia Hardison Londré |
Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 0826265855 |
"Drawing on the recollections of renowned theater critic David Austin Latchaw and on newspaper archives of the era, Londre chronicles the "first golden age" of Kansas City theater, from the opening of the Coates Opera House in 1870 through the gradual decline of touring productions after World War I"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Sarah Meer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2020-05-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192540610 |
This book recovers a major nineteenth-century literary figure, the American Claimant. For over a century, claimants offered a compelling way to understand cultural difference across the Anglophone Atlantic, especially between Britain and the United States. They also formed a political talisman, invoked against slavery and segregation, or privileges of gender and class. Later, claimants were exported to South Africa, becoming the fictional form for explaining black students who acquired American degrees. American Claimants traces the figure back to lost-heir romance, and explores its uses. These encompassed real, imagined, and textual ideas of inheritance, for writers and editors, and also for missionaries, artists, and students. The claimant dramatized tensions between tradition and change, or questions of exclusion and power: it offered ways of seeing activism, education, sculpture, and dress. The premise for dozens of novels and plays, a trope, a joke, even the basis for real claims: claimants matter in theatre history and periodical studies, they touch on literary marketing and reprinting, and they illuminate some unexpected texts. These range from Our American Cousin to Bleak House, Little Lord Fauntleroy to Frederick Douglass' Paper; writers discussed include Frances Trollope, Julia Griffiths, Alexander Crummell, John Dube, James McCune Smith, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain. The focus on claimants yields remarkable finds: new faces, fresh angles, a lost column, and a forgotten theatrical genre. It reveals the pervasiveness of this form, and its centrality in imagining cultural contact and exchange.
Author | : George Clinton Densmore Odell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 904 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Theater |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Samuel L. Leiter |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2023-12-29 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1476693595 |
America's third largest city until 1890, Brooklyn, New York, had a striking theatrical culture before it became a borough of Greater New York in 1898. As the city gained size and influence, more and more theatres arose, with at least 15 venues ultimately vying for favor. Too many theatregoers, however, preferred the discomforts of a ferry and horsecar trip to New York's playhouses instead of supporting the local product. Nor did the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883 do Brooklyn's theatres any favors. Manhattan's Goliath slayed Brooklyn's David. This first comprehensive study of Brooklyn's old-time theatre describes the city's early history, each of its many playhouses, its plays and actors (including nearly every foreign and domestic star), and its scandals and catastrophes, including the theatre fire that killed nearly 300. Brooklyn's ongoing struggle to establish theatres in a society dominated by anti-theatrical preachers, including Henry Ward Beecher, is detailed, as are all the ways that Brooklyn typified 19th century American theatre, from stock companies to combinations. Replete with fascinating anecdotes, this is the story of a major city from which theatre all but vanished before being reborn as a present-day artistic mecca.
Author | : John Horden |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Author | : Eugene H. Cropsey |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780838638224 |
It is also the story of Albert and Uranus Crosby, who migrated from Cape Cod to Chicago where, as successful entrepreneurs, they made their fortunes and later sacrificed it all in their efforts to bring a new musical and artistic enlightenment to their adpoted city.
Author | : Andrew L. Erdman |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2015-08-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 147661329X |
This work reveals the often racy, ribald, and sexually charged nature of the vaudeville stage, looking at a broad array of provocative performers from disrobing dancers to nude posers to skimpily dressed athletes. Examining the ways in which big-time vaudeville nonetheless managed to market itself as pure, safe, and morally acceptable, this work compares the industry's marketing and promotional practices to those of other emergent mass-marketers of the vaudeville era in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Included are in-depth examinations of important figures from the vaudeville stage such as Annette Kellerman and Eva Tanguay. The work attempts to address historical context as one means of understanding these performers with an appreciation for their rebelliousness. It discusses censorship and content control in the vaudeville era, and concludes with an analysis of film's part in the fall of vaudeville. Many photographs, cartoons, and other illustrations are included.
Author | : Janice Norwood |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2020-05-09 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1526133342 |
Victorian touring actresses brings new attention to women’s experience of working in nineteenth-century theatre by focusing on a diverse group of largely forgotten ‘mid-tier’ performers, rather than the usual celebrity figures. It examines how actresses responded to changing political, economic and social circumstances and how the women were themselves agents of change. Their histories reveal dynamic patterns of activity within the theatrical industry and expose its relationship to wider Victorian culture. With an innovative organisation mimicking the stages of an actress’s life and career, the volume draws on new archival research and plentiful illustrations to examine the challenges and opportunities facing the women as they toured both within the UK and further afield in North America and Australasia. It will appeal to students and researchers in theatre and performance history, Victorian studies, gender studies and transatlantic studies.
Author | : Anonymous |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 658 |
Release | : 2022-12-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3368136135 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.