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Author : Oliver Everett Durivage
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (463 download)
Download or read book The Stage-struck Yankee written by Oliver Everett Durivage and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : O. E. DU RIVAGE
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Stage-struck Yankee. A Farce in One Act [and in Prose], Etc written by O. E. DU RIVAGE and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oliver Everett Durivage
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The stage-struck Yankee written by Oliver Everett Durivage and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas P. Collins
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1587367831
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Stage-struck Settlers in the Sun-kissed Land written by Thomas P. Collins and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of the amateur theatre in nineteenth-century Prescott, the territorial capital of Arizona, is told here in vivid and loving detail, with fifty-two illustrations that include portraits of amateur actors and theatre builders, maps of the town, and photos of the theatres. The talented and dedicated actor-settlers-including Fort Whipple's Fannie Kautz, wife of the Civil War hero General August V. Kautz; and attorney Thomas Fitch, "The Silver Tongued Orator of the Pacific" who founded the Prescott Amateur Dramatic Club-lived lives that were almost as dramatic as the comedies and melodramas that thrilled the local audiences. With a scholar's eye for the relationship between people and events and a dramatist's sense of a good plot, Collins has put together a valuable history of the actors, "opera houses," and the tastes and culture of Arizona's Wild West mining town between 1868 and 1903. Of special value for those interested in territorial history but unfamiliar with the post-Civil War theatrical repertoire are the author's concise but entertaining plot summaries of plays like "Led Astray, Lady Audley's Secret, Damon and Pythias, East Lynne, Richelieu," and the outrageously funny one-act farces in which Fort Whipple's military officers and Prescott's lawyers, businessmen, mining magnates, and their talented wives and daughters took time out from the rigors of frontier life to strut and fret their hour upon the stage.
Author : Arthur Herman Wilson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512819360
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book A History of the Philadelphia Theatre, 1835-1855 written by Arthur Herman Wilson and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three volumes of a series that is to run to the present day and give complete theatrical records of their periods, with elaborate indexes of plays, players, and playwrights.
Author : David Mayer
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587298406
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Stagestruck Filmmaker written by David Mayer and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An actor, a vaudevillian, and a dramatist before he became a filmmaker, D. W. Griffith used the resources of theatre to great purpose and to great ends. In pioneering the quintessentially modern medium of film from the 1890s to the 1930s, he drew from older, more broadly appealing stage forms of melodrama, comedy, vaudeville, and variety. In Stagestruck Filmmaker, David Mayer brings Griffith’s process vividly to life, offering detailed and valuable insights into the racial, ethnic, class, and gender issues of these transitional decades. Combining the raw materials of theatre, circus, minstrelsy, and dance with the newer visual codes of motion pictures, Griffith became the first acknowledged artist of American film. Birth of a Nation in particular demonstrates the degree to which he was influenced by the racist justifications and distorting interpretations of the Civil War and the Reconstruction era. Moving through the major phases of Griffith’s career in chapters organized around key films or groups of films, Mayer provides a mesmerizing account of the American stage and cinema in the final years of the nineteenth century and the first three decades of the twentieth century. Griffith’s relationship to the theatre was intricate, complex, and enduring. Long recognized as the dominant creative figure of American motion pictures, throughout twenty-six years of making more than five hundred films he pillaged, adapted, reshaped, revitalized, preserved, and extolled. By historicizing his representations of race, ethnicity, and otherness, Mayer places Griffith within an overall template of American life in the years when film rivaled and then surpassed the theatre in popularity.
Author : Francis Hodge
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292761546
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Yankee Theatre written by Francis Hodge and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Bernth Lindfors
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 1580463940
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Ira Aldridge: The vagabond years, 1833-1852 written by Bernth Lindfors and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 of the first available biography of this great African-American classical actor, covering his emergence as a professional actor in Britain during the years 1833-1852. Ira Aldridge: The Vagabond Years, 1833-1852 deals in depth with the later experiences of one of the modern world's first black classical actors as he toured throughout the United Kingdom impressing audiences with his virtuosity and versatility as an interpreter not only of tragic and comic black roles but also eventually as an actor of classic white Shakespearean parts -- Shylock, Macbeth, Richard III, even Iago. Aldridge was very popular in Ireland and remained there for six years, performing in venues large and small. He traveled often in his own carriage with assistants who supported him in scenes, enabling famous plays to be staged anywhere, even in villages that did not have a proper theater. He also performed periodically in large cities with professional acting companies, and returned to the London stage in 1848, after leaving it fifteen years earlier. During these years he expandedhis repertoire, refined his skills, and gained a reputation as one of Britain's most talented thespians. In dealing with Aldridge's emergence as a professional actor in the United Kingdom, Lindfors here records in detail theups and downs of his itinerant existence in a world where no theatergoer had ever seen anyone like him on stage before. Aldridge was genuinely a unique phenomenon in Britain at a pivotal point in history. Bernth Lindfors is Professor Emeritus of English and African Literatures, University of Texas at Austin, and editor of Ira Aldridge: The African Roscius (University of Rochester Press, 2007).
Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521109314
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (93 download)
Download or read book A History of English Drama 1660-1900 written by Allardyce Nicoll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.
Author : Thomas Allston Brown
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book A history of the New York stage from the first performance in 1732 to 1901 written by Thomas Allston Brown and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 1903-01-01 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : F. L. Cutler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Cousin Josiah written by F. L. Cutler and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 26 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 : B. G. McFall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Joshua Blodgett, from Blodgett's Holler written by B. G. McFall and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas R. Beaty
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Old Glory in Cuba written by Thomas R. Beaty and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: