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Author : Arthur Hornblow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of the Theatre in America from Its Beginnings to the Present Time written by Arthur Hornblow and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick William Dame
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3735746276
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (357 download)
Download or read book America's Indomitable Character Volume II written by Frederick William Dame and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II of America's Indomitable Character has information on: A synopsis of Volume I. A preview concerning the content of Volume II with the sub-themes of Nature, human nature, society, the social contract, and education and how they weave into American character identity. American character identity and its Colonial connection to the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The historical personage Michel Guillaume (J. Hector St. John) de Crèvecoeur, a French, British, American Colonial citizen, and the America farmer par excellence who posed the famous question: What is an American? Benjamin Franklin's contributions to the developing American character identity. Thomas Paine's revolutionary views on American character identity. Thomas Jefferson's philosophical contributions to American character identity. John Dickinson, America's soldier and founding father. Hugh Henry Brackenridge, American publisher and author who educated Colonial Americans in politics. The literary group the Connecticut Wits who were both for and against America's independent development. The role of Colonial Religion and early attitudes concerning the American Colonial Theater as they relate to American character identity. The American dramatist and jurist Royall Tyler and his play The Contrast (A Comedy in Five Acts) in which the newly developing American consciousness of independence, including female independence, vis-à-vis English foppery and buffoonery are presented. Further, the use of the Native American's chanson du mort, in this case the Song of Alknomook and the dramaturgical presentation of Yankee Doodle are of utmost importance in understanding The Contrast and how they interplay with American character identity. The Albany Plan of Union. The Declaration of Independence written by the Founding Fathers. The Articles of Confederation (and Perpetual Union). A chronology of theatrical events between 1600 and 1800.
Author : Arthur Hornblow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A History of the Theatre in America written by Arthur Hornblow and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Hobson Quinn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of the American Drama written by Arthur Hobson Quinn and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sculley Bradley
Publisher : 清华大学出版社有限公司
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book George Henry Boker written by Sculley Bradley and published by 清华大学出版社有限公司. This book was released on 1927 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norman Foerster
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Reinterpretation of American Literature written by Norman Foerster and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Faricy Condee
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821415883
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Coal and Culture written by William Faricy Condee and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-31 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical appreciation of the opera house in the coal-mining region of Appalachia from the mid 1860s to the early 1930s, Coal and Culture demonstrates that these were multipurpose facilities that were used for traveling theater, concerts, religious events, lectures, commencements, boxing matches, benefits, union meetings, and - if the auditorium had a flat floor - skating and basketball.
Author : Ralph J. Poole
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443809535
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Passionate Politics written by Ralph J. Poole and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection of essays on American stage and film melodrama assesses the multifarious and contradictory uses to which melodrama has been put in American culture from the late 18th century to the present. It focuses on the various ways in which the genre has periodically intervened in debates over race, class, gender and sexuality and, in this manner, has also persistently contributed to the formation and transformation of American nationhood: from the debates over who constitutes the newborn nation in the Early Republic, to the subsequent conflict over abolition and the discussion of gender roles at the turn of the 19th century, to the fervent class struggles of the 1930s and the critiques of domestic containment in the 1950s, as well as to ongoing debates of gender, race, and sexuality today. Addressing these issues from a variety of different angles, including historical, aesthetic, cultural, phenomenological, and psychological approaches, these essays present a complex picture of the cultural work and passionate politics accomplished by melodrama over the course of the past two centuries, particularly at times of profound social change.
Author : David Grimsted
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520059962
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (599 download)
Download or read book Melodrama Unveiled written by David Grimsted and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Grimsted's Melodrama Unveiled explores early American drama to try to understand why such severely limited plays were so popular for so long. Concerned with both the plays and the dramatic settings that gave them life, Grimsted offers us rich descriptions of the interaction of performers, audiences, critics, managers, and stage mechanics. Because these plays had to appeal immediately and directly to diverse audiences, they provide dramatic clues to the least common denominator of social values and concerns. In considering both the context and content of popular culture, Grimsted's book suggests how theater reflected the rapidly changing society of antebellum America.
Author : Library Company of Philadelphia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the Library Company of Philadelphia written by Library Company of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ryan Howard
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476601542
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Punch and Judy in 19th Century America written by Ryan Howard and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hand-puppet play starring the characters Punch and Judy was introduced from England and became extremely popular in the United States in the 1800s. This book details information on nearly 350 American Punch players. It explores the significance of the 19th-century American show as a reflection of the attitudes and conditions of its time and place. The century was a time of changing feelings about what it means to be human. There was an intensified awareness of the racial, cultural, social and economical diversity of the human species, and a corresponding concern for the experience of human oneness. The American Punch and Judy show was one of the manifestations of these conditions.
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Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book The Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Beasley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351493175
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Restricting Freedoms written by Eric Beasley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, freedom is so closely associated with the United States that most people still view America as the ultimate symbol of freedom. This is one reason why the desire to immigrate to the United States from almost anywhere in the world has not waned for more than a century. Because of this image, the idea that Americans are constrained by restrictive ordinances and rules seems contrary and therefore difficult for most citizens to accept.Vladimir Shlapentokh and Eric Beasley argue that the idea of basing American society upon unadulterated freedom in all spheres of life is both unrealistic and simplistic. The authors define freedom as the ability to choose one of many available alternatives. They note that this concept of freedom sometimes leads to a paradox: occasionally, freedoms are expanded through the creation of additional restrictions because the restrictions provide people with more alternatives. Thus, being free or restricted is not an all or nothing proposition, but rather a question of degrees.Many works discuss restrictions in relation to a particular area of life, but none of them explore the magnitude of how limitations shape people's everyday lives. Restricting Freedoms is unique in that the authors provide case studies that illustrate a wide variety of social contexts in relation to religious activity, noise-making, and sexual activities, among others. This overview of the role of restrictions in American life will be of interest to all American readers.
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Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lewis Perry
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742522503
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Boats Against the Current written by Lewis Perry and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boats Against the Current provides a fascinating account of how American culture emerged from the sheltered, elitist world of the eighteenth century into the dynamic, turbulent civilization that reached full bloom after the Civil War. The antebellum years were times of flux and change, years of a society rushing into the western wilds, muscular and ambitious, yet haunted by uncertainty about its future and its past. Renowned scholar Lewis Perry begins his study with a fresh look at Andrew Jackson--vividly recreating a time when Americans, feeling their ties to the past disintegrating, fostered a new fascination with history. Then Perry introduces us to the observations of such articulate foreign travelers as Alexis de Tocqueville and Fredrika Bremer. He deftly weaves together these writers' perspectives to provide a fascinating look at our emergent nation. Here, too, are the women of the cities and frontier, the peddlers, preachers, and showmen, along with such writers as Hawthorne, Emerson, Whittier, and Parker. Perry brings these personalities and writings together to show us how early nineteenth century America saw itself, in both its promise and its fears. Now available for the first time in paperback, Boats Against the Current offers a brilliant portrait of a society in the midst of change, expansion, and reflection about its own future and past. Written by one of our leading intellectual historians, it makes a major contribution to our understanding of the emergence of modern American culture.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Theatre Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank J. Urquhart
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849680185
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book A History of the city of Newark, New Jersey, Volume 2 written by Frank J. Urquhart and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the writing of this history the aim has been to give in a simple narrative all facts, both great and seemingly small, that tend to show how the Newark of the present day has been built up, generation by generation. Anything and everything that seemed to add life, light and color to the story, that was to be found and was authentic, has been made use of. A sincere effort has been made, also, to make the history attractive and interesting to those who, although they may care little for the reading of history, may wish to become familiar with the making of their own city from the day of its foundation as a hamlet, to the present. This is volume two out of two.
