Author : David Ritchey
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 15,51 MB
Release : 1982-04-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
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Author : David Ritchey
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,27 MB
Release : 1982-04-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0313225893
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Author : F. Arant Maginnes
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 24,23 MB
Release : 2015-03-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476600740
This is the biography of Thomas Abthorpe Cooper, the first star of the American stage. Cooper was the chief transitional figure between the British and American stage and contributed greatly to the development of American theatre. For the 30 years after 1797, Cooper performed in the major cities and toured to every state in the Union. This work covers his entire life and career from his birth outside London in 1775, to his famed performance to celebrate the opening of the City of Washington in 1800, to his death in Bristol, Pennsylvania, in 1849. Much research is drawn from Mr. Cooper's letters to his mentor, English radical philosopher William Godwin. Throughout, there are descriptions of his principal portrayals at different stages drawn from contemporary accounts and theatrical reviews. There are also 22 illustrations, from paintings and engravings to playbills and photographs of the sites associated with the actor.
Author : P. Reed
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,47 MB
Release : 2009-06-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0230622712
Rogue Performances recovers eighteenth and nineteenth-century American culture s fascination with outcast and rebellious characters. Highwaymen, thieves, beggars, rioting mobs, rebellious slaves, and mutineers dominated the stage in the period s most popular plays. Peter Reed also explores ways these characters helped to popularize theatrical forms such as ballad opera, patriotic spectacle, blackface minstrelsy, and melodrama. Reed shows how both on and offstage, these paradoxically powerful, persistent, and troubling figures reveal the contradictions of class and the force of the disempowered in the American theatrical imagination. Through analysis of both well known and lesser known plays and extensive archival research, this book challenges scholars to re-think their assumptions about the role of class in antebellum American drama.
Author : Alan McNairn
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,80 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780773515390
He argues that Wolfe became the embodiment of British patriotism and the superiority of the English way of life, and that the multitude of literary and visual works about Wolfe, which focus primarily on his death, were created in an environment in which legends of inspiring, politically persuasive heroics were much in demand.
Author : Don B. Wilmeth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 13,29 MB
Release : 1996-06-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521564441
"This new and updated Guide, with over 2,700 cross-referenced entries, covers all aspects of the American theatre from its earliest history to the present. Entries include people, venues and companies scattered through the U.S., plays and musicals, and theatrical phenomena. Additionally, there are some 100 topical entries covering theatre in major U.S. cities and such disparate subjects as Asian American theatre, Chicano theatre, censorship, Filipino American theatre, one-person performances, performance art, and puppetry. Highly illustrated, the Guide is supplemented with a historical survey as introduction, a bibliography of major sources published since the first edition, and a biographical index covering over 3,200 individuals mentioned in the text."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Gerald Kahan
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,36 MB
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 082033264X
In this carefully researched work, Gerald Kahan traces the genesis, development, and production history of a delightful and important eighteenth-century theatre piece, The Lecture on Heads. The Lecture was first presented in London in 1764 and became a staple in the English-speaking theaters of the world for the remainder of the eighteenth century. It amassed a fortune for its creator, George Alexander Stevens, was copied and adapted by dozens of performers, and went through forty published editions, authentic and spurious. Kahan studies the theatrical and cultural backgrounds that influenced the contents, development, and popularity of the Lecture. His exhaustive research has produced the most comprehensive and accurate published account of Stevens's life and career as well as a bibliography of his works. In addition, readers will find one of the earliest printed texts of the Lecture and a scholarly chronological listing of hundreds of its performances and many of its variations, including information on dates, cities, theaters, actors, ticket prices, and critical reviews.
Author : O. Johnson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137099615
History, they say, has a filthy tongue. In the case of colonial theatre in America, what we know about performance has come from the detractors of theatre and not its producers. Yet this does not account for the flourishing theatrical circuit established between 1760 and 1776. This study explores the culture's social support of the theatre.
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Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 10,33 MB
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ISBN : 1621968936
Author : Don B. Wilmeth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 24,17 MB
Release : 1998-02-28
Category : 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.
