Book Description
This series collects the complete scripts of 100 selected, previously unpublished plays by 19th-Century American playwrights. Volume 3 features George Henry Boker, with "The World a Mask," "Glaucus," and "The Bankrupt."
Author : Henry George Boker
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,36 MB
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1479443468
This series collects the complete scripts of 100 selected, previously unpublished plays by 19th-Century American playwrights. Volume 3 features George Henry Boker, with "The World a Mask," "Glaucus," and "The Bankrupt."
Author :
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Page : 2262 pages
File Size : 14,82 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
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Author : William John Mahar
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 45,17 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252066962
The songs, dances, jokes, parodies, spoofs, and skits of blackface groups such as the Virginia Minstrels and Buckley's Serenaders became wildly popular in antebellum America. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask not only explores the racist practices of these entertainers but considers their performances as troubled representations of ethnicity, class, gender, and culture in the nineteenth century. William J. Mahar's unprecedented archival study of playbills, newspapers, sketches, monologues, and music engages new sources previously not considered in twentieth-century scholarship. More than any other study of its kind, Behind the Burnt Cork Mask investigates the relationships between blackface comedy and other Western genres and traditions; between the music of minstrel shows and its European sources; and between "popular" and "elite" constructions of culture. By locating minstrel performances within their complex sites of production, Mahar offers a significant reassessment of the historiography of the field. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask promises to redefine the study of blackface minstrelsy, charting new directions for future inquiries by scholars in American studies, popular culture, and musicology.
Author : Stanley Hochman
Publisher :
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 22,62 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Ranging from the earliest drama to the theater of the 1980's this encyclopedia includes coverage of national drama and theater around the world, theater companies, and musical comedy. Arrangement of the 1,300 entries is alphabetically by name or subject with nearly 950 of these devoted to individual playwrights and their works.
Author : Arthur Hobson Quinn
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 1951
Category : American literature
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Author : Rachel J. Howarth
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 10,98 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Reference
ISBN :
This book contains concise and accurate information about a large number of books important to American literature described there with references by entry number.
Author : Brown University. Library
Publisher :
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 1972
Category : American drama
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Author : Modern Language Association of America
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 1940
Category : Languages, Modern
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Author : Barrett Harper Clark
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 1940
Category : American drama
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Author : A & B Booksellers, New York
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 31,60 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
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