Stage Struck Settlers In The Sun Kissed Land
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Stage Struck Settlers In The Sun Kissed Land
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Author : Thomas P. Collins
language : en
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
Release Date : 2007
Stage Struck Settlers In The Sun Kissed Land written by Thomas P. Collins and has been published by Wheatmark, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
The rise of the amateur theatre in nineteenth-century Prescott, the territorial capital of Arizona, is told here in vivid and loving detail, with fifty-two illustrations that include portraits of amateur actors and theatre builders, maps of the town, and photos of the theatres. The talented and dedicated actor-settlers-including Fort Whipple's Fannie Kautz, wife of the Civil War hero General August V. Kautz; and attorney Thomas Fitch, "The Silver Tongued Orator of the Pacific" who founded the Prescott Amateur Dramatic Club-lived lives that were almost as dramatic as the comedies and melodramas that thrilled the local audiences. With a scholar's eye for the relationship between people and events and a dramatist's sense of a good plot, Collins has put together a valuable history of the actors, "opera houses," and the tastes and culture of Arizona's Wild West mining town between 1868 and 1903. Of special value for those interested in territorial history but unfamiliar with the post-Civil War theatrical repertoire are the author's concise but entertaining plot summaries of plays like "Led Astray, Lady Audley's Secret, Damon and Pythias, East Lynne, Richelieu," and the outrageously funny one-act farces in which Fort Whipple's military officers and Prescott's lawyers, businessmen, mining magnates, and their talented wives and daughters took time out from the rigors of frontier life to strut and fret their hour upon the stage.
Arizona On Stage
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Author : Thomas P. Collins
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2015-11-15
Arizona On Stage written by Thomas P. Collins and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-15 with History categories.
Most of the books that have been written about territorial Arizona and the southwest focus on the Indian Wars, outlaws, violent crimes, gambling, saloons, and bawdy houses. They foster and perpetuate the notion that southwest mining towns in the nineteenth century were little more than battlefields and lawless dens of vice and corruption. This is only half true. The lawyers, judges, doctors, army officers, bankers, journalists, teachers, and businessmen and women who actually ran the towns were educated and culturally sophisticated people who yearned for the niceties of Atlantic Coast culture. They built churches, founded choral societies and amateur theater troupes, and built libraries, multi-purpose halls, and “opera houses” where talented professional actors and their companies performed both the classics and contemporary melodramas, operas, minstrels shows, etc. These men and women spent a considerable amount of their leisure time in the theater, often as much as three nights per week. The plays they attended reflected their social and moral values, their taste, and their worship of theatrical celebrities. Their attendance and financial support of the theater was a measure of their civic pride and social consciousness. This popular history will help to balance the image of the Wild West.
Historical Dictionary Of American Theater
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Author : James Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2015-04-16
Historical Dictionary Of American Theater written by James Fisher and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-16 with Performing Arts categories.
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.
From San Francisco Eastward
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Author : Carolyn Grattan Eichin
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2020-02-12
From San Francisco Eastward written by Carolyn Grattan Eichin and has been published by University of Nevada Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-12 with Performing Arts categories.
Finalist for the 2021 Willa Literary Award in Scholarly Non-Fiction Finalist for the 2021 Will Rogers Medallion Award in Western Non-Fiction Carolyn Grattan Eichin’s From San Francisco Eastward explores the dynamics and influence of theater in the West during the Victorian era. San Francisco, Eichin argues, served as the nucleus of the western theatrical world, having attained prominence behind only New York and Boston as the nation’s most important theatrical center by 1870. By focusing on the West’s hinterland communities, theater as a capitalist venture driven by the sale of cultural forms is illuminated against the backdrop of urbanization. Using the vagaries of the West’s notorious boom-bust economic cycles, Eichin traces the fiscal, demographic, and geographic influences that shaped western theater. With an emphasis on the 1860s and 70s, this thoroughly researched work uses distinct notions of ethnicity, class, and gender to examine a cultural institution driven by a market economy. From San Francisco Eastward is a thorough analysis of the ever-changing theatrical personalities and strategies that shaped Victorian theater in the West, and the ways in which theater as a business transformed the values of a region.
The Journal Of Arizona History
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
The Journal Of Arizona History written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Arizona categories.
Louis James
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Author : Thomas P. Collins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-02-28
Louis James written by Thomas P. Collins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-28 with Performing Arts categories.
Poems Of Paul Hamilton Hayne
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Author : Paul Hamilton Hayne
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
Release Date : 1882
Poems Of Paul Hamilton Hayne written by Paul Hamilton Hayne and has been published by University of Michigan Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with History categories.
The Promised Land
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Author : Mary Antin
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-12-19
The Promised Land written by Mary Antin and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This 1912 classic of the JewishAmerican immigrant experience was aninstant critical and popular success. Itsauthor arrived in Boston from Russia asa 12-year-old in the 1890s. Her movingnarrative of Old and New World cultureswas acclaimed by The New YorkTimes as "a unique contribution to ourmodern literature and to our modernhistory."Reprint of the Houghton MifflinCompany, Boston and New York, 1912edition.
Song Of Myself
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Author : Walt Whitman
language : en
Publisher: Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
Release Date : 2024-03-20
Song Of Myself written by Walt Whitman and has been published by Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-20 with Philosophy categories.
One of the Greatest Poems in American Literature Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was considered by many to be one of the most important American poets of all time. He had a profound influence on all those who came after him. “Song of Myself”, a portion of Whitman’s monumental poetry collection “Leaves of Grass”, is one of his most beloved poems. It was through this moving piece that Whitman first made himself known to the world. One of the most acclaimed of all American poems, it is written in Whitman’s signature free verse style, without a regular form, meter, or rhythm. His lines have a mesmerizing chant-like quality, as he sought to make poetry more appealing. Few poems are as fun to read aloud as this one. Considered to be the core of his poetic vision, this poem is an optimistic and inspirational look at the world in 1855. It is exhilarating, epic, and fresh in its brilliant and fascinating diction and wordplay as it tries to capture the unique meaning of words of the day, while also embracing the rapidly evolving vocabularies of the sciences and the streets. Far ahead of its time, it was considered by many social conservatives to be scandalous and obscene for its depiction of sexuality and desire, while at the same time, critics hailed the poem as a modern masterpiece. This first version of “Song of Myself” is far superior to the later versions and will delight readers with the playfulness of its diction as it glorifies the self, body, and soul. “I am large, I contain multitudes,”
The American Film Institute Catalog Of Motion Pictures Produced In The United States Feature Films
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Author : American Film Institute
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1993
The American Film Institute Catalog Of Motion Pictures Produced In The United States Feature Films written by American Film Institute and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Motion pictures categories.
"The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.