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31 produkter
George Frederick Cooke
Machiavel of the Stage
Inbunden, 1980
1101 kr
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George Frederick Cooke was a member of that select company of legendary actors -- Garrick, Kemble, Henderson, Kean -- who dominated the English stage during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was the first important actor to cross the Atlantic and to play the theatres of the new United …
Language of American Popular Entertainment
A Glossary of Argot, Slang, and Terminology
Inbunden, 1981
955 kr
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The Revisionist Stage
American Directors Reinvent the Classics
Av Amy S. Green, Don B. Wilmeth
Häftad, 2006
619 kr
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This book explores the vision and talents of a controversial group of artists who, depending on one's perspective, either revitalised or disfigured the standard dramatic repertoire by adapting canonical dramas for the contemporary American stage. First setting out comprehensive overviews of the …
American Drama
The Bastard Art
Av Susan Harris Smith, Don B. Wilmeth
Häftad, 2006
720 kr
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In this book, Susan Harris Smith looks at the many often conflicting cultural and academic reasons for the neglect and dismissal of American drama as a legitimate literary form. Covering a wide range of topics such as theatrical performance, the rise of nationalist feeling, the creation of academic …
Theatre Culture in America, 1825-1860
Av Rosemarie K. Bank, Don B. Wilmeth
Häftad, 2007
1005 kr
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Theatre Culture in America, 1825-1860 examines how Americans staged their cultures in the decades before the Civil War, and advances the idea that cultures are performances which take place both inside and outside of playhouses. Americans imaginatively expanded conventional ideas of performance as …
The American Stage and the Great Depression
A Cultural History of the Grotesque
Av Mark Fearnow, Don B. Wilmeth
Häftad, 2007
619 kr
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This book proposes a correlation between the divided 'mind' of America during the Depression and popular stage works of the era. Theatre works such as Jack Kirkland's comic-horrific adaptation of Tobacco Road, Olsen and Johnson's 'scream-lined revue', Hellzapoppin, and successful plays by Robert E. …
The Theatre in America during the Revolution
Av Jared Brown, Don B. Wilmeth
Häftad, 2007
619 kr
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This is a comprehensive attempt to assemble all that is known of theatre at the time of America's political birth. Because many plays performed during the Revolution were overrun with partisan politics, they were not always aesthetically enticing; yet this was one of the only historical eras in …
Performing the American Frontier, 1870-1906
Av Roger A. Hall, Don B. Wilmeth
Häftad, 2006
705 kr
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Performing the American Frontier, 1870-1906 examines how the American frontier was presented in theatrical productions during the critical period from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of cinema. In chronological fashion, the book explores the post-Civil War resurgence of interest in drama …
Plays by William Hooker Gillette
All the Comforts of Home, Secret Service, Sherlock Holmes
Av Don B. Wilmeth, Rosemary Cullen m. fl.
Häftad, 1983
560 kr
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The American playwright and actor William Gillette is best remembered today for the role of Sherlock Holmes that he first created for the stage in 1899 and played for more than thirty years. Gillette also adapted foreign plays for the American stage and wrote strong melodramas and spy stories in …
African American Theatre
An Historical and Critical Analysis
Av Samuel A. Hay, Don B. Wilmeth
Häftad, 1994
778 kr
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The book traces the history of African American theatre from its beginnings to the present. It analyses the types of plays written for this theatre, identifies the perennial problems faced by theatre artists and producing companies, and makes bold, innovative proposals for the theatre's healthy …
The Cambridge History of American Theatre
Av Don B. Wilmeth, Christopher Bigsby
Inbunden, 1998
2566 kr
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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 …
Demons of Disorder
Early Blackface Minstrels and their World
Av Dale Cockrell, Don B. Wilmeth
Inbunden, 1997
1641 kr
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Carnival, charivari, mumming plays, peasant festivals, and even early versions of the Santa Claus myth - all of these forms of entertainment influenced and shaped blackface minstrelsy in the first half of the nineteenth century. In his fascinating study Demons of Disorder, musicologist Dale …
The American Stage and the Great Depression
A Cultural History of the Grotesque
Av Mark Fearnow, Don B. Wilmeth
Inbunden, 1997
1575 kr
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This book proposes a correlation between the divided 'mind' of America during the Depression and popular stage works of the era. Theatre works such as Jack Kirkland's comic-horrific adaptation of Tobacco Road, Olsen and Johnson's 'scream-lined revue', Hellzapoppin, and successful plays by Robert E. …
Theatre Culture in America, 1825-1860
Av Rosemarie K. Bank, Don B. Wilmeth
Inbunden, 1997
1928 kr
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Theatre Culture in America, 1825-1860 examines how Americans staged their cultures in the decades before the Civil War, and advances the idea that cultures are performances which take place both inside and outside of playhouses. Americans imaginatively expanded conventional ideas of performance as …
John Barrymore, Shakespearean Actor
Av Michael A. Morrison, Don B. Wilmeth
Inbunden, 1997
1861 kr
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John Barrymore's Richard III and Hamlet, first seen in New York during the 1919-20 and 1922-3 seasons, stand as high-water marks of twentieth-century Shakespearean interpretation. Many of the conventions of modern practice can be traced to Barrymore's performances: he was the first actor to bring …
A History of African American Theatre
Av Errol G. Hill, James V. Hatch m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
938 kr
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This is the first definitive history of African-American theatre. The text embraces a wide geography investigating companies from coast to coast as well as the anglophone Caribbean and African-American companies touring Europe, Australia, and Africa. This history represents a catholicity of styles …
John Barrymore, Shakespearean Actor
Av Michael A. Morrison, Don B. Wilmeth
Häftad, 1999
687 kr
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John Barrymore's Richard III and Hamlet, first seen in New York during the 1919-20 and 1922-3 seasons, stand as high-water marks of twentieth-century Shakespearean interpretation. Many of the conventions of modern practice can be traced to Barrymore's performances: he was the first actor to bring …
The Cambridge History of American Theatre
Av Don B. Wilmeth, Christopher Bigsby
Inbunden, 2000
1608 kr
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This is an authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theatre in all its dimensions, from theatre building to playwriting, 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 …
The Cambridge History of American Theatre
Av Don B. Wilmeth, Christopher Bigsby
Häftad, 2006
905 kr
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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 …
The Cambridge History of American Theatre
Av Don B. Wilmeth, Christopher Bigsby
Häftad, 2006
871 kr
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The second volume of the authoritative, multi-volume Cambridge History of American Theatre, first published in 1999, begins in the post-Civil War period and traces the development of American theatre up to 1945. It covers all aspects of theatre from plays and playwrights, through actors and acting, …
The Cambridge History of American Theatre
Av Don B. Wilmeth, Christopher Bigsby
Häftad, 2006
938 kr
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This is an authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theatre in all its dimensions, from theatre building to playwriting, 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 …
Chicano Drama
Performance, Society and Myth
Av Jorge Huerta, Don B. Wilmeth
Inbunden, 2000
1966 kr
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This book, first published in 2000, was the first since Jorge Huerta's earlier study Chicano Theater: Themes and Forms to explore the diversity and energy of Chicano theatre. Huerta takes as his starting point 1979, the year Luis Valdez's play, Zoot Suit, was produced on Broadway. Huerta looks at …
Chicano Drama
Performance, Society and Myth
Av Jorge Huerta, Don B. Wilmeth
Häftad, 2000
821 kr
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This book, first published in 2000, was the first since Jorge Huerta's earlier study Chicano Theater: Themes and Forms to explore the diversity and energy of Chicano theatre. Huerta takes as his starting point 1979, the year Luis Valdez's play, Zoot Suit, was produced on Broadway. Huerta looks at …
Theatre, Society and the Nation
Staging American Identities
Av S. E. Wilmer, Don B. Wilmeth
Inbunden, 2002
1593 kr
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Theatre has often served as a touchstone for moments of political change or national definition and as a way of exploring cultural and ethnic identity. In this book Steve Wilmer selects key historical moments in American history and examines how the theatre, in formal and informal settings, …
Censorship of the American Theatre in the Twentieth Century
Av John H. Houchin, Don B. Wilmeth
Inbunden, 2003
1761 kr
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John Houchin explores the impact of censorship in twentieth-century American theatre, arguing that theatrical censorship coincided with significant challenges to religious, political and cultural systems. The study provides a summary of theatre censorship in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries …
The Federal Theatre Project
A Case Study
Av Barry B. Witham, Don B. Wilmeth
Inbunden, 2003
1525 kr
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Drawing upon archival resources, official correspondence and personal interviews, this 2003 book provides a detailed examination of the operations of the US Federal Theatre Project in the decade of the 1930s. From the colourful bus tours through the Civilian Conservation Corps camps to the …
Early American Theatre from the Revolution to Thomas Jefferson
Into the Hands of the People
Av Heather S. Nathans, Don B. Wilmeth
Inbunden, 2003
1593 kr
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Theatre has often served as a touchstone for moments of political change or national definition and as a way of exploring cultural and ethnic identity. In this 2003 book, Heather Nathans examines the growth and influence of the theatre in the development of the young American Republic, from the …
The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre
Inbunden, 2007
2801 kr
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This new and updated encyclopedic guide, with over 2700 cross-referenced entries, covers all aspects of the American theatre from its earliest history to the present. Entries include people, venues and companies scattered through the USA, plays and musicals, and theatrical phenomena. Additionally, …
Congressional Theatre
Dramatizing McCarthyism on Stage, Film, and Television
Av Brenda Murphy, Don B. Wilmeth
Häftad, 2003
754 kr
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Congressional Theatre is the first book to identify and examine the significant body of plays, films, and teleplays that responded to the actions of the House Committee on Un-American Activities during the 'show business hearings' it held between 1947 and 1960. Brenda Murphy discusses the …
