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Author : Minnette Augusta Ker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (147 download)
Download or read book The History of the Theater in California in the Nineteenth Century written by Minnette Augusta Ker and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Minnette Augusta Ker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The History of the Theatre in California in the Nineteenth Century written by Minnette Augusta Ker and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan G. Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780520063747
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (637 download)
Download or read book Parades and Power written by Susan G. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with a vivid description of Philadelphia's spectacular Washington Centennial of 1832, Susan Davis examines the background of street theatre and the history of parades and public ceremonial culture in Europe and the New World. In pre-Civil War Philadelphia, processions and public ceremonies were popular vehicles for historical commemoration and celebration, and for propaganda and protest.
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Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Nineteenth Century Theatre Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Fisher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 081087833X
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of American Theater written by James Fisher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings covers the history of theater as well as the literature of America from 1538 to 1880. The years covered by this volume features the rise of the popular stage in American during the colonial era and the first century of the United States of America, with an emphasis on its practitioners, including such figures as Lewis Hallam, David Douglass, Mercy Otis Warren, Edwin Forrest, Charlotte Cushman, Joseph Jefferson, Ida Aldridge, Dion Boucicault, Edwin Booth, and many others. The Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings covers the history of early American Theatre through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on actors and actresses, directors, playwrights, producers, genres, notable plays and theatres. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the early American Theater.
Author : Miriam López Rodríguez
Publisher : Universitat de València
ISBN 13 : 9788437058702
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Women's Contribution to Nineteenth-century American Theatre written by Miriam López Rodríguez and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2004 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esta colección de ensayos muestra los múltiples aspectos de la contribución que hizo la mujer, al teatro americano del siglo XIX. En este estudio se enseñan diversos tipos de mujeres y los roles que desempeñan, así como refleja la manera en que Susan Glaspell y Sophie Treadwell ayudaron a dar forma al teatro, entre muchas otras que escribirían décadas más tarde.
Author : Shauna Vey
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809334380
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Childhood and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre written by Shauna Vey and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study of the daily work lives of five members of the Marsh Troupe, a nineteenth-century professional acting company composed primarily of children, sheds light on the construction of idealized childhood inside and outside the American theatre"--
Author : Carolyn Grattan Eichin
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 1948908379
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (489 download)
Download or read book From San Francisco Eastward written by Carolyn Grattan Eichin and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2021 Willa Literary Award in Scholarly Non-Fiction Finalist for the 2021 Will Rogers Medallion Award in Western Non-Fiction Carolyn Grattan Eichin’s From San Francisco Eastward explores the dynamics and influence of theater in the West during the Victorian era. San Francisco, Eichin argues, served as the nucleus of the western theatrical world, having attained prominence behind only New York and Boston as the nation’s most important theatrical center by 1870. By focusing on the West’s hinterland communities, theater as a capitalist venture driven by the sale of cultural forms is illuminated against the backdrop of urbanization. Using the vagaries of the West’s notorious boom-bust economic cycles, Eichin traces the fiscal, demographic, and geographic influences that shaped western theater. With an emphasis on the 1860s and 70s, this thoroughly researched work uses distinct notions of ethnicity, class, and gender to examine a cultural institution driven by a market economy. From San Francisco Eastward is a thorough analysis of the ever-changing theatrical personalities and strategies that shaped Victorian theater in the West, and the ways in which theater as a business transformed the values of a region.
Author : Ulf Otto
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3476059618
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)
Download or read book The Theater of Electricity written by Ulf Otto and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1880s, electrical energies started circulating in European theaters, generated from fossil fuels in urban power plants. A mysterious force, which was still traded as romantic life force by some and for others had already come to stand in for progress, entered performance venues. Engineering knowledge, control techniques and supply chains changed fundamentally how theater was made and thought of. The mechanical image machine from Renaissance and Baroque times was transformed into a thermodynamic engine. Modern theater turned out to be electrified theater. – Retracing what happened backstage before the Avantgarde took to the front stage, this book proposes to write the genealogy of theaters modernity as a cultural history of theater technology.
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Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Nineteenth Century Theatre written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lisbeth Haas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520207042
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Conquests and Historical Identities in California, 1769-1936 written by Lisbeth Haas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review: "Study of the Mexican population of Upper California especially around San Juan Capistrano. Addresses culture, economics, and social life"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Author : F. Burwick
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230370659
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Playing to the Crowd written by F. Burwick and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study of the productions of the minor theatres, how they were adapted to appeal to the local patrons and the audiences who worked and lived in these communities.
Author : Steve Tillis
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030483436
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Challenge of World Theatre History written by Steve Tillis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of theatre history studies requires consideration of theatre as a global phenomenon. The Challenge of World Theatre History offers the first full-scale argument for abandoning an obsolete and parochial Eurocentric approach to theatre history in favor of a more global perspective. This book exposes the fallacies that reinforce the conventional approach and defends the global perspective against possible objections. It moves beyond the conventional nation-based geography of theatre in favor of a regional geography and develops a new way to demarcate the periods of theatre history. Finally, the book outlines a history that recognizes the often-connected developments in theatre across Eurasia and around the world. It makes the case that world theatre history is necessary not only for itself, but for the powerful comparative and contextual insights it offers to all theatre scholars and students, whatever their special areas of interest.
Author : Claudia Durst Johnson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476608946
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Church and Stage written by Claudia Durst Johnson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout nineteenth century America, religious officials often condemned the theatre as an inversion of the house of God, similar to the church in architectural structure and organization but wholly different in purpose and values. This book explores the many ways in which religious institutions supported by capitalism profoundly affected the early development of American theatre. The author analyzes the church's critical view toward common theatre practices, including the use of female and child performers, and the lower class alliance with the stage. Three appendices provide period correspondence, including an excerpt from Mark Twain's February 1871 "Memoranda," in which Twain criticizes an Episcopalian reverend for denying church burial to a popular stage comedian.
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Publisher : University Alabama Press
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Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Representations of Gender on the Nineteenth-century American Stage written by and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the various ways that maleness and femaleness were depicted on stage and influenced theatre in the Victorian era.
Author : Thomas A. Bogar
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807180521
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Theatre on the American Frontier written by Thomas A. Bogar and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2023-11-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two centuries, nearly all historical accounts of American theatre have focused on New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. As a result, the story of theatre on the frontier consists primarily of regional studies with limited scope. Thomas A. Bogar’s Theatre on the American Frontier provides an overdue, balanced treatment of the accomplishments of the troupes working in the trans-Appalachian West. From its origins in late eighteenth-century Pittsburgh, New Orleans, and Louisville, frontier theatre grew by the close of the nineteenth century to encompass more than a dozen centers of vibrant theatrical activity. Audiences—mainly pioneers struggling with the hardships of establishing a life in the backcountry—enjoyed thrilling melodramas, the comedies of George Colman the Younger and John O’Keeffe, and even the tragedies of William Shakespeare. Theatre companies that ventured into this challenging and unfamiliar territory did so with a combination of daring and determination. Bogar’s comprehensive study brings this neglected history into the spotlight, cementing these figures and their theatrical productions and practices in their rightful place.
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.
