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Highlights the achievements and significance of women playwrights in early American drama.
Author : Amelia Howe Kritzer
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,31 MB
Release : 1995
Category : American drama
ISBN : 9780472065981
Highlights the achievements and significance of women playwrights in early American drama.
Author : Zoe Desti-Demanti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 15,21 MB
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1317776380
First published in 1999. Although contemporary feminist criticism has mainly focused upon American women playwrights of the twentieth century-women, there is evidence that a feminist tradition rooted deep in the nationalistic and democratic impulses of the American nation existed more than a hundred years before these women started writing. It may come as a surprise to some readers that a significant but overlooked number of women playwrights vitally contributed to the development of early American drama. This study covers the period between 1775 and 1860, a time when American men and women struggled to define themselves and their place in response to the radical economic and institutional transformations which characterized that period. Based on the assumption that women's experience of the world differs from men's, the author tries to show that the plays of my study are sites of gender inscriptions as well as collective evidence that late-eighteenth and nineteenth-century men and women were affected differently by the economic, political, and social changes that were taking place in America at that time.
Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher :
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 44,27 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
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Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher :
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 31,50 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Libraries
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Author : Francis Hodge
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : Samuel L. Leiter
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 11,98 MB
Release : 2023-12-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476693595
America's third largest city until 1890, Brooklyn, New York, had a striking theatrical culture before it became a borough of Greater New York in 1898. As the city gained size and influence, more and more theatres arose, with at least 15 venues ultimately vying for favor. Too many theatregoers, however, preferred the discomforts of a ferry and horsecar trip to New York's playhouses instead of supporting the local product. Nor did the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883 do Brooklyn's theatres any favors. Manhattan's Goliath slayed Brooklyn's David. This first comprehensive study of Brooklyn's old-time theatre describes the city's early history, each of its many playhouses, its plays and actors (including nearly every foreign and domestic star), and its scandals and catastrophes, including the theatre fire that killed nearly 300. Brooklyn's ongoing struggle to establish theatres in a society dominated by anti-theatrical preachers, including Henry Ward Beecher, is detailed, as are all the ways that Brooklyn typified 19th century American theatre, from stock companies to combinations. Replete with fascinating anecdotes, this is the story of a major city from which theatre all but vanished before being reborn as a present-day artistic mecca.
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Page : 2272 pages
File Size : 16,65 MB
Release : 1913
Category : American literature
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Author : Linda L. Stein
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0810861410
Literary Research and the American Realism and Naturalism Period: Strategies and Sources will help those interested in researching this era. Authors Linda L. Stein and Peter J. Lehu emphasize research methodology and outline the best practices for the research process, paying attention to the unique challenges inherent in conducting studies of national literature.
Author : Various
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,93 MB
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Drama
ISBN :
"Representative Plays by American Dramatists" by Various. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : George Thomas Tanselle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1146 pages
File Size : 12,43 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Bibliographical literature
ISBN : 9780674367616