Annals Of The San Francisco Stage 1850 1880
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Annals of the San Francisco Stage: Foster, L.M. 1850-1880.- v. 2. Michael, C.E. 1880-1924
Author | : Federal Theatre Project (San Francisco, Calif.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Theater |
ISBN | : |
Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans
Author | : Heather Nathans |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2017-03 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0472130307 |
Shows how the earliest representations of Jewish characters on American stages mirrored treatment of Jewish Americans outside the playhouse
John Wilkes Booth and the Women Who Loved Him
Author | : E. Lawrence Abel |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2018-04-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1621576191 |
When John Wilkes Booth died—shot inside a burning barn and dragged out twelve days after he assassinated President Lincoln—all he had in his pocket were a compass, a candle, a diary, and five photographs of five different women. They were not ordinary women. Four of them were among the most beautiful actresses of the day; the fifth was Booth's wealthy fiancé women who were consumed by love, jealousy, strife, and heartbreak; women whose lives took wild turns before and after Lincoln's assassination; women whom have been condemned to the footnotes of history... until now.
The San Francisco Stage, a History
Author | : Edmond McAdoo Gagey |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
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The Man who was Rip Van Winkle
Author | : Benjamin McArthur |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300122322 |
The most beloved American comedic actor of the nineteenth century, Joseph Jefferson made his name as Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle. In this book, a compelling blend of biography and theatrical and cultural history, Benjamin McArthur chronicles Jefferson's remarkable career and offers a lively and original account of the heroic age of the American theatre. Joe Jefferson's entire life was spent on the stage, from the age of Jackson to the dawn of motion pictures. He extensively toured the United States as well as Australia and Great Britain. An ever-successful career (including acclaim as painter and memoirist) put him in the company of the great actors, artists, and writers of the day, including Edwin Forrest, Edwin Booth, John Singer Sargent, and William Dean Howells. This book rescues a brilliant figure and places him, appropriately enough, on center stage of a pivotal time for American theatre. McArthur explores the personalities of the period, the changing theatrical styles and their audiences, the touring life, and the wide and varied culture of theatre. Through the life of Jefferson, McArthur is able to illuminate an era.
Hellacious California!
Author | : Gary Noy |
Publisher | : Heyday.ORIM |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2020-06-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1597145041 |
“Teems with bittersweet compounds of 19th-century nefariousness, including . . . gambling, knife fights, the demon drink, con artistry, and prostitution.” —Los Angeles Review of Books In 1855 an ex-miner lamented that nineteenth-century California “can and does furnish the best bad things,” including “purer liquors . . . finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtezans [sic]” than anywhere else in America. Lured by boons of gold and other exploitable resources, California’s settler population mushroomed under Mexican and early American control, and this period of rapid transformation gave rise to a freewheeling culture best epitomized by its entertainments. Hellacious California tours the rambunctious and occasionally appalling amusements of the Golden State: gambling, gun duels, knife fights, gracious dining and gluttony, prostitution, fandangos, cigars, con artistry, and the demon drink. Historian Gary Noy unearths myriad primary sources, many of which have never before been published, to spin his true tall tales that are by turns humorous and horrifying. Whether detailing the exploits of an inebriated stallion, gambling parlors as a reinforcement and subversion of racial norms, armed skirmishes over eggs, or the ins and outs of the “Spirit Lover” scam, Noy expertly situates these stories in the context of a live-for-the-moment society characterized by audacity, bigotry, and risk. “Confidently carries the reader into the everyday lives of early Californians. The focus on Californians’ popular pastimes . . . with an eye on vice, decadence, and scandal, makes this book a rowdy tour.” —Dr. Patrick Ettinger, Professor of History, California State University, Sacramento; Former Director of CSUS Public History Program and the Capital Campus Oral History Program
A Comprehensive Bibliography of American Staging, 1865-1918
Author | : University of Pittsburgh. Seminar in Theatre History |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Theater |
ISBN | : |
California Historical Society Quarterly
Author | : California Historical Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 870 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : |