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Book Synopsis Theatre on the American Frontier by : Thomas A. Bogar
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.
Book Synopsis Performing the American Frontier, 1870-1906 by : Roger A. Hall
Download or read book Performing the American Frontier, 1870-1906 written by Roger A. Hall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the American frontier was presented in theatrical productions.
Book Synopsis Early-Twentieth-Century Frontier Dramas on Broadway by : R. Wattenberg
Download or read book Early-Twentieth-Century Frontier Dramas on Broadway written by R. Wattenberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of contemporary dramas not only indicate the popularity of these plays but also tell us that these plays offered views about the frontier that original audiences could and did embrace.
Book Synopsis The Theatre of Empire by : Douglas S Harvey
Download or read book The Theatre of Empire written by Douglas S Harvey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the years between 1750 and 1860, this study follows the creation and perpetuation of an imperial culture, from the London metropole to the Great Plains.
Book Synopsis Theatre on the American Frontier by : Thomas A. Bogar
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 338 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.
Book Synopsis The frontier periods in the history of the American theatre by : John Steinway
Download or read book The frontier periods in the history of the American theatre written by John Steinway and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pioneer Performances by : Matthew Rebhorn
Download or read book Pioneer Performances written by Matthew Rebhorn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1829 to 1881, playgoers throughout the nation applauded frontier dramas that celebrated conventional American values like rugged individualism and the ideology of Manifest Destiny. Yet, as Pioneer Performances shows, a more subversive cultural agenda often worked within the orthodox framework of this popular drama. Drawing on a range of plays and public entertainments, Matthew Rebhorn uncovers the heterodox themes in the nineteenth-century stage, ultimately revealing the frontier as a set of complex performative practices imbued with a sense of trenchant social critique. The dramatis personae of Rebhorn's study includes Buffalo Bill Cody; Gowongo Mohawk, a cross-dressing Native American performer; T.D. Rice, the blackface minstrel who created the role of Jim Crow; Edwin Forrest, the biggest star of the nineteenth-century stage; and Dion Boucicault, an expatriate Irish playwright who penned a sophisticated critique of race relations in the American South. In addition to this colorful cast of characters, works by lesser-known figures like James Kirke Paulding, Augustin Daly, and Joaquin Miller serve to illustrate the complex interpretations of the frontier on the American stage. With each case, Rebhorn demonstrates the multifaceted, politically charged nature of nineteenth-century drama. Closing with a coda that considers latter-day representations of the frontier, such as in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain and the staged photo opportunities on George W. Bush's Texas ranch, Rebhorn reveals the lasting impact of the genre and the performative practices it first introduced on the American stage. Drawn from in-depth research in theater history, this study illustrates how the frontier was-and still is-defined in performance.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of American Theatre by : Don B. Wilmeth
Download or read book The Cambridge History of American Theatre written by Don B. Wilmeth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-02-28 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of American Theatre is an authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theatre in all its dimensions, from theatre building to play writing, directors, performers, and designers. Engaging the theatre as a performance art, a cultural institution, and a fact of American social and political life, the History recognizes changing styles of presentation and performance and addresses the economic context that conditions the drama presented. The History approaches its subject with a full awareness of relevant developments in literary criticism, cultural analysis, and performance theory. At the same time, it is designed to be an accessible, challenging narrative. Volume One deals with the colonial inceptions of American theatre through the post-Civil War period: the European antecedents, the New World influences of the French and Spanish colonists, and the development of uniquely American traditions in tandem with the emergence of national identity.
Book Synopsis Trouping in the Oregon Country by : Alice Henson Ernst
Download or read book Trouping in the Oregon Country written by Alice Henson Ernst and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Presidents Attend the Theatre by : Thomas A. Bogar
Download or read book American Presidents Attend the Theatre written by Thomas A. Bogar and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-06-14 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not every presidential visit to the theatre is as famous as Lincoln’s last night at Ford’s, but American presidents attended the theatre long before and long after that ill-fated night. In 1751, George Washington saw his first play, The London Merchant, during a visit to Barbados. John Quincy Adams published dramatic critiques. William McKinley avoided the theatre while in office, on professional as well as moral grounds. Richard Nixon met his wife at a community theatre audition. Surveying 255 years, this volume examines presidential theatre-going as it has reflected shifting popular tastes in America.
Book Synopsis A History of the American Theatre from Its Origins to 1832 by : William Dunlap
Download or read book A History of the American Theatre from Its Origins to 1832 written by William Dunlap and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Theatre Culture in America, 1825-1860 by : Rosemarie K. Bank
Download or read book Theatre Culture in America, 1825-1860 written by Rosemarie K. Bank and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of pre-Civil War American theatre.
Book Synopsis Curiosities of the American Stage by : Laurence Hutton
Download or read book Curiosities of the American Stage written by Laurence Hutton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[...] Only two modern plays of this character are worthy of serious attention here—Augustin Daly's Horizon and the Davy Crockett of Frank E. Murdoch. Horizon, one of Mr. Daly's earliest works, was produced at the Olympic Theatre, March 22, 1871, and ran for two months. In the advertisements it was called “a totally original drama, in five acts, illustrative of a significant phase of New York society, and embodying the varied scenes peculiar to American frontier life of the present day.” It was certainly an American play. In no other part of the[...]".
Book Synopsis Earth Matters on Stage by : Theresa J. May
Download or read book Earth Matters on Stage written by Theresa J. May and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-09 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth Matters on Stage: Ecology and Environment in American Theater tells the story of how American theater has shaped popular understandings of the environment throughout the twentieth century as it argues for theater’s potential power in the age of climate change. Using cultural and environmental history, seven chapters interrogate key moments in American theater and American environmentalism over the course of the twentieth century in the United States. It focuses, in particular, on how drama has represented environmental injustice and how inequality has become part of the American environmental landscape. As the first book-length ecocritical study of American theater, Earth Matters examines both familiar dramas and lesser-known grassroots plays in an effort to show that theater can be a powerful force for social change from frontier drama of the late nineteenth century to the eco-theater movement. This book argues that theater has always and already been part of the history of environmental ideas and action in the United States. Earth Matters also maps the rise of an ecocritical thought and eco-theater practice – what the author calls ecodramaturgy – showing how theater has informed environmental perceptions and policies. Through key plays and productions, it identifies strategies for artists who want their work to contribute to cultural transformation in the face of climate change.
Book Synopsis Pittsburgh in Stages by : Lynne Conner
Download or read book Pittsburgh in Stages written by Lynne Conner and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2007 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive history of theater in Pittsburgh is offered in this volume that relates the significant influence and interpretation of urban socioeconomic trends in the theatrical arts and the role of the theater as an agent of social change.
Book Synopsis The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier by : Ralph Leslie Rusk
Download or read book The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier written by Ralph Leslie Rusk and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Performing America by : J. Ellen Gainor
Download or read book Performing America written by J. Ellen Gainor and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVHow theatrical representations of the U.S. have shaped national identity /div
