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• Publisher : SIU Press
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• Release Date : 24 June 2024

Burton fled England in 1834 and came to America in the wake of a public scandal caused by his marriage to a sixteen-year-old orphan. Burton was then already married with a

• Publisher : University of Iowa Press
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• Release Date : 24 June 2024

Rowdy Carousals makes important interventions in nineteenth-century theatre history with regard to the Bowery Boy, a raucous, white, urban character most famously exemplified by Mose from A Glance at New

• Publisher : University of Michigan Press
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• Release Date : 26 September 2022

Staged Readings studies the social consequences of 19th-century America’s two most prevalent leisure forms: theater and popular literature. In the midst of watershed historical developments—including numerous waves of

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 21,8 Mb
• Release Date : 03 March 2016

In The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920, Karen E. Laird alternates between readings of nineteenth-century stage and twentieth-century silent film adaptations to investigate the working practices of the first

• Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
• File Size : 24,8 Mb
• Release Date : 28 August 2015

In The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848–1920, Karen E. Laird alternates between readings of nineteenth-century stage and twentieth-century silent film adaptations to demonstrate the working practices of the first adapters

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 29,8 Mb
• Release Date : 19 March 2009

For almost a hundred years before Uncle Tom's Cabin burst on to the scene in 1852, the American theatre struggled to represent the evils of slavery. Slavery and Sentiment examines how

• Publisher : SIU Press
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• Release Date : 09 November 2016

"Drawing on underexplored and only recently available archives, author Chrystyna Dail examines the influence of Stage for Action--a significant yet previously unstudied agitprop theatre group founded in 1943--on social activist

• Publisher : SIU Press
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• Release Date : 08 October 2015

"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

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 11 December 2017

This book recounts the personal and professional life of Thomas Souness Hamblin (1800-1853), Shakespearean actor and Bowery Theatre manager. Primarily responsible for the popularity of “blood and thunder” melodramas with

• Publisher : Yale University Press
• File Size : 44,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 2007

The most beloved American comedic actor of the nineteenth century, Joseph Jefferson made his name as Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle. In this book, a compelling blend of biography and