Ebenezer Venture; or, Advertising for a Wife. A farce in one act [and in prose], etc
Author : Lawrence LA BREE
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Page : 30 pages
File Size : 13,35 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : Lawrence LA BREE
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Page : 30 pages
File Size : 13,35 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : Francis Hodge
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 16,21 MB
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0292761546
The famous "Stage Yankees," with their eccentric New England dialect comedy, entertained audiences from Boston to New Orleans, from New York to London in the years between 1825 and 1850. They provided the creative energy for the development of an American-type character in early plays of native authorship. This book examines the full range of their theatre activity, not only as actors, but also as playmakers, and re-evaluates their contribution to the growth of the American stage. Yankee theatre was not an oddity, a passing fad, or an accident of entertainment; it was an honest exploitation of the materials of American life for an audience in search of its own identification. The delineation of the American character—a full-length realistic portrait in the context of stage comedy—was its projected goal; and though not the only method for such delineation, the theatre form was the most popular and extensive way of disseminating the American image. The Yankee actors openly borrowed from what literary sources were available to them, but because of their special position as actors, who were required to give flesh-and-blood imitations of people for the believable acceptance of others viewing the same people about them, they were forced to draw extensively on their actors' imaginations and to present the American as they saw him. If the image was too often an external one, it still revealed the Yankee as a hardy individual whose independence was a primary assumption; as a bargainer, whose techniques were more clever than England's sharpest penny-pincher; as a country person, more intelligent, sharper and keener in dealings than the city-bred type; as an American freewheeler who always landed on top, not out of naive honesty but out of a simple perception of other human beings and their gullibility. Much new evidence in this study is based on London productions, where the view of English audiences and critics was sharply focused on what Americans thought about themselves and the new culture of democracy emerging around them. The shift from America, the borrower, to America, the original doer, can be clearly seen in this stager activity. Yankee theatre, then, is an epitome of the emerging American after the Second War for Independence. Emerging nationalism meant emerging national definition. Yankee theatre thus led to the first cohesive body of American plays, the first American actors seen in London, and to a new realistic interpretation of the American in the "character" plays of the 1870s and 1880s.
Author : Richard M. Dorson
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,32 MB
Release : 1974-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780394709260
This is a collection of American folklore from colonial times to the present.
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Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,38 MB
Release : 1854
Category : American drama
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Author : Felicity Jensz
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 25,39 MB
Release : 2023-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1760465682
This book contains the annotated diary of Adolf and Mary (Polly) Hartmann, missionaries of the Moravian Church who worked at the Ebenezer mission station on Wotjobaluk country, in the north-west of the Colony of Victoria, Australia. The diary begins in 1863, as the Hartmanns are preparing to travel from Europe to take up their post, and ends in 1873, by which time they are working in Canada as missionaries to the Lenni Lenape people. Recording the Hartmann’s eight years at the Ebenezer mission, the diary presents richly detailed insights into the daily interactions between Aboriginal people and their colonisers. The inhabitants of the mission are overwhelmingly described in the diary as agents in their lives, moving in and out of the missionaries’ sphere of influence, yet restricted at times by the boundaries of the mission. The diary reveals moments of laughter, shared grief, community, advocacy and reciprocal learning, alongside the mundane everyday chores of mission life. Through the personal writings of a missionary couple, this diary brings to light the regular, routine and extraordinary events on a mission station in Australia in the third quarter of the nineteenth century—a period just prior to British high imperialism, and a period before increasingly restrictive legislation was enforced on Indigenous people in the Colony of Victoria.
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Page : 706 pages
File Size : 11,17 MB
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Category : Books on microfilm
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Author : Jeffrey H. Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,57 MB
Release : 2005-10-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1139448048
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.
Author : Library of Congress. Catalog Publication Division
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Page : 704 pages
File Size : 16,19 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Microforms
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Author : Lyman Horace Weeks
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 16,64 MB
Release : 1898
Category : New York (N.Y.)
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Page : 436 pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 1993
Category : American literature
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