"It Was Play or Starve": Acting in the Nineteenth-Century American Popular Theatre
Autor John Hannersen Limba Engleză Paperback – 1993
American popular entertainers in the nineteenth century faced physical hardships, prejudices, and cultural barriers. This book examines the fascinating world of these itinerant actors and their experiences with early showboats, frontier theater, minstrelsy, panorama exhibitions, and the circus. Admirable and not-so-admirable characters, who possessed equal amounts of pluck, courage, and naiveté, are contrasted popular cultural tastes
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780879725877
ISBN-10: 0879725877
Pagini: 170
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția Popular Press 1
ISBN-10: 0879725877
Pagini: 170
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția Popular Press 1
Descriere
American popular entertainers in the nineteenth century faced physical hardships, prejudices, and cultural barriers. This book examines the fascinating world of these itinerant actors and their experiences with early showboats, frontier theater, minstrelsy, panorama exhibitions, and the circus. Admirable and not-so-admirable characters, who possessed equal amounts of pluck, courage, and naiveté, are contrasted popular cultural tastes