Theatre Culture In America 1825 1860
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Theatre Culture In America 1825 1860
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Author : Rosemarie K. Bank
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997-01-28
Theatre Culture In America 1825 1860 written by Rosemarie K. Bank and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-28 with Drama categories.
A study of pre-Civil War American theatre.
Theatre Culture And Temperance Reform In Nineteenth Century America
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Author : John W. Frick
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-07-21
Theatre Culture And Temperance Reform In Nineteenth Century America written by John W. Frick and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-21 with Drama categories.
This book examines the role of temperance drama in American theatre and compares the American genre to its British counterpart.
Theatre Symposium Vol 15
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Author : M. Scott Phillips
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2007-09-23
Theatre Symposium Vol 15 written by M. Scott Phillips and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-23 with Performing Arts categories.
The essays gathered together in Volume 15 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium investigate how, historically, the theatre has been perceived both as a source of moral anxiety and as an instrument of moral and social reform. Essays consider, among other subjects, ethnographic depictions of the savage “other” in Buffalo Bill’s engagement at the Columbian Exposition of 1893; the so-called “Moral Reform Melodrama” in the nineteenth century; charity theatricals and the ways they negotiated standards of middle-class respectability; the figure of the courtesan as a barometer of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century moral and sexual discourse; Aphra Behn’s subversion of Restoration patriarchal sexual norms in The Feigned Courtesans; and the controversy surrounding one production of Tony Kushner Angels in America, during which officials at one of the nation’s more prominent liberal arts colleges attempted to censor the production, a chilling reminder that academic and artistic freedom cannot be taken for granted in today’s polarized moral and political atmosphere.
The Cambridge History Of American Theatre
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Author : Don B. Wilmeth
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-02-28
The Cambridge History Of American Theatre written by Don B. Wilmeth and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-02-28 with Drama categories.
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.
Historical Dictionary Of The Jacksonian Era And Manifest Destiny
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Author : Mark R. Cheathem
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2016-12-13
Historical Dictionary Of The Jacksonian Era And Manifest Destiny written by Mark R. Cheathem and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-13 with History categories.
The Jacksonian period under review in this dictionary served as a transition period for the United States. The growing pains of the republic’s infancy, during which time Americans learned that their nation would survive transitions of political power, gave way to the uncertainty of adolescence. While the United States did not win its second war, the War of 1812, with its mother country, it reaffirmed its independence and experienced significant maturation in many areas following the conflict’s end in 1815. As the second generation of leaders took charge in the 1820s, the United States experienced the challenges of adulthood. The height of those adult years, from 1829 to 1849, is the focus of the Historical Dictionary of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about this era in American history.
A History Of African American Theatre
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Author : Errol G. Hill
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-07-17
A History Of African American Theatre written by Errol G. Hill and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-17 with Drama categories.
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From Traveling Show To Vaudeville
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Author : Robert M. Lewis
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2007-10
From Traveling Show To Vaudeville written by Robert M. Lewis and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10 with History categories.
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.
Drama Theatre And Identity In The American New Republic
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Author : Jeffrey H. Richards
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-10-27
Drama Theatre And Identity In The American New Republic written by Jeffrey H. Richards and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-27 with Drama categories.
Drama, Theatre, and Identity in the American New Republic investigates the way in which theatre both reflects and shapes the question of identity in post-revolutionary American culture. In this 2005 book Richards examines a variety of phenomena connected to the stage, including closet Revolutionary political plays, British drama on American boards, American-authored stage plays, and poetry and fiction by early Republican writers. American theatre is viewed by Richards as a transatlantic hybrid in which British theatrical traditions in writing and acting provide material and templates by which Americans see and express themselves and their relationship to others. Through intensive analyses of plays both inside and outside of the early American 'canon', this book confronts matters of political, ethnic and cultural identity by moving from play text to theatrical context and from historical event to audience demography.
Censorship Of The American Theatre In The Twentieth Century
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Author : John H. Houchin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-06-26
Censorship Of The American Theatre In The Twentieth Century written by John H. Houchin and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-26 with Drama categories.
John Houchin explores the impact of censorship in twentieth-century American theatre, arguing that theatrical censorship coincided with significant challenges to religious, political and cultural systems. The study provides a summary of theatre censorship in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and analyses key episodes from 1900 to 2000. These include attempts to censure Olga Nethersole for her production of Sappho in 1901 and the theatre riots of 1913 that greeted the Abbey Theatre's production of Playboy of the Western World. Houchin explores the efforts to suppress plays in the 1920s that dealt with transgressive sexual material and investigates Congress' politically motivated assaults on plays and actors during the 1930s and 1940s. He investigates the impact of racial violence, political assassinations and the Vietnam War on the trajectory of theatre in the 1960s and concludes by examining the response to gay activist plays such as Angels in America.
The Cambridge Guide To American Theatre
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Author : Don B. Wilmeth
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-09-13
The Cambridge Guide To American Theatre written by Don B. Wilmeth and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-13 with Drama categories.
New and updated encyclopedic guide to American theatre, from its earliest history to the present.