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Books on: 19th century american theater

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Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture

Book by Benjamin Reiss; University of Chicago Press, 2008

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Hospitals In Literature--History--19th Century, Mentally Ill, Writings Of The, American--History And Criticism, Psychiatric Hospitals--Social Aspects--United States--History--19th Century, Psychiatric Hospitals--United States--History--19th Century

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...patients expressivity exhibited in the nineteenth-century asylum movements promotion of theater, writing, oratory, and debate has been inverted...talk over it as was the case in nineteenth-century asylums. Both settings, however the private...
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Essays on Twentieth-Century German Drama and Theater: An American Reception, 1977-1999

Book by Hellmut Hal Rennert; Peter Lang, 2004

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German Drama--20th Century--Appreciation--United States, German Drama--20th Century--History And Criticism, Theater--Germany--History--20th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the early 19th century on, there would...Calderons 17th-century play) hardly...events. The 19th and 20th centuries thus display...that 20th-century drama has otherwise...Directors Drama from 19th- and 20th-century theater would be that...
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Stage, Page, Scandals, and Vandals: William E. Burton and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre

Book by David L. Rinear; Southern Illinois University Press, 2004

Subjects:

Actors--Great Britain--Biography, Burton, William E--(William Evans)--1802-1860, Chambers Street Theater (New York, N.Y.)--History, Theater--United States--History--19th Century, Theatrical Managers--United States--Biography

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...Burton and nineteenth-century American theatre / David L. Rinear. p. cm. - (Theater in the Americas) Includes...States-History-i9th century. I. Title. II. Series...minimum requirements of American National Standard for...
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Monumental Anxieties: Homoerotic Desire and Feminine Influence in 19th Century U.S. Literature

Book by Scott S. Derrick; Rutgers University Press, 1997

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American Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, American Fiction--Male Authors--History And Criticism, Desire In Literature, Fiction, Gay Men In Literature, Gender Identity In Literature, Homosexuality And Literature--United States--History--19th Century, Masculinity In Literature, Self In Literature, Sex Role In Literature, Women And Literature--United States--History--19th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...dark and smutty,--is the only theater of his exploits; and labor, which covers...aspiration and so conform to nineteenth-century ideas of striving upward. On the other...understood in these terms. Nineteenth-century culture gave to women important responsibility...
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American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1869-1914

Book by Gerald Bordman; Oxford University Press, 1994

Subjects:

American Drama--19th Century--Stories, Plots, Etc, American Drama--20th Century--Stories, Plots, Etc, Drama, Theater--United States--History--19th Century, Theater--United States--History--20th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...does not hold true for American theatre, for the next...second act" saw the American theatre--its plays...entertainment. Although American plays would still not...the sad truth that late 19th-century American drama has so...

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Journal Articles on: 19th century american theater

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Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II

Journal article by Jill Watts; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 94, 2009

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Books--Book reviews, Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film Before World War II (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...stereotypes in American theater and cinema. An...commences in 16th century Great Britain and...characterizations on the American stage and screen...movies in the late 19th century and the...transitional nature of American society during...1970s of African Americans in film. Nonetheless...evolution on whites theaters and stages and...peaked in the late 19th century, when...
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Sites and Sights: The Iconology of the Subterranean in Late Nineteenth-Century Irish-American Drama

Journal article by Joyce Flynn; MELUS, Vol. 18, 1993

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Irish Americans--Literature, Melodrama--19th century, O'Neill, Eugene--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the Nineteenth Century. Baltimore: Johns...before ONeill." American Quarterly 38...Daniel, Ed. American Melodramas. New...Voiceless." Anonymous Americans. Ed. Tamara Hareven...Melodrama Unveiled: American Theater and Culture, 1800...in Nineteenth-Century England. Princeton...
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William Gilmore Simms and the Second Earliest Example of the Pseudo-Latinate Noun Absquatulation in Nineteenth-Century American Letters

Journal article by Michele Valerie Ronnick; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 51, 1998

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American literature--19th century, Americanisms--History, Simms, William Gilmore--Records and correspondence

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...Absquatulation in Nineteenth-Century American Letters. by MICHELE...abscond, gratulate) of American origin, and jocular...half of the nineteenth century, and one from the first...keen interest in the theater and his special friendship...
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Japonisme: East-West Renaissance in the Late 19th Century

Journal article by Yoko Chiba; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 31, 1998

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Aesthetics, Modern--19th century, Art, Japanese--Influence, Europe--Art, Japan--Influence

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...juncture of two centuries. Though Sada...throughout this century on many a Western...Japonisme on theater has continued...quintessentially late 19th-century cultural phenomenon...to mid-20th century falls into the...the classical theaters of Noh and Kabuki...literature, and theater that originated...later half of the 19th century has steadily...
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Harry Elam, Jr., and Robert Alexander, Eds. the Fire This Time: African American Plays for the Twenty-First Century

Journal article by David Krasner; African American Review, Vol. 40, 2006

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Books--Book reviews, The Fire This Time: African American Plays for the Twenty-First Century (Book)--Book reviews

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...This Time: African American Plays for the Twenty-First Century. by David Krasner...the Twenty-First Century. New York: TCG...specifically by examining 19th-century slave rebellion leader...Pittsburgh Public Theater, then moved to the...

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Magazine Articles on: 19th century american theater

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A National Negro Theater That Never Was

Magazine article by Rena Fraden; American Visions, Vol. 9, October 1994

Subjects:

African American theater--History, Minstrel shows--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...national negro theater that never was...as have African Americans, neither has any...flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, operated for...theater for African Americans, however, was...For African-American intellectuals in...part of the 20th century (and for scholars...written in the 19th century, and at...
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Springtime for Theater: With Fare Ranging from Dueling Drunks to Talking Trash, the American Stage Gears Up for a Doozy of a Season. Here's Your Primer

Magazine article by Gerard Raymond; The Advocate, March 27, 2007

Subjects:

Drama--Calendars, Plays--Calendars, Theater--Planning

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Springtime for Theater: With Fare Ranging...Talking Trash, the American Stage Gears Up for...revival of the modern American classic. Well By...Lucas New York, American Airlines Theatre...Laura Keene, a 19th-century stage luminary who...
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New York's Opera House Brawl

Magazine article by Bill Kauffman; The American Enterprise, Vol. 13, June 2002

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Actors--19th century, Astor Place Riot, New York, 1849--History, Forrest, Edwin--Conduct of life, Macready, William C.--Conduct of life, Riots--19th century, Theaters--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...legendary nineteenth-century New York City gang...Never again has the American stage known such an...rivalry between the American actor Edwin Forrest...playwriting contest for Americans and tirelessly promoted the native theater. Forrest got it in...caught from out of the American backwoods." The English...
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Awaken and Sing: How Wedekind's Kindertragodie Found Its Voice in a New Century

Magazine article by Steven Sater; American Theatre, Vol. 24, July 2007

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Drama--Appreciation, Dramatic characterization--Methods, Dramatists--Appreciation, Dramatists--Personal narratives, Plays--Appreciation, Playwrights--Appreciation, Playwrights--Personal narratives, Spring Awakening (Play)--Appreciation, Theater production--Methods, Theater--Methods, Theater--Production and direction, Theatrical production--Methods, Wedekind, Frank--Appreciation

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...Found Its Voice in a New Century. by Steven Sater When...Wedekinds Masked Man to the American musical theatre, those...indeed the turn of a new century when I first gave Duncan...set out the world of 19th-century repression...efforts to transpose 19th-century yearnings into...
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Dusky Divas: Pioneer African American Female Performers

Magazine article by Jo Tanner; Black Masks, Vol. 16, May/Jun 2004

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African Americans, Females, Performing artists, Performing arts, Theater

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...Divas: Pioneer African American Female Performers by Jo Tanner The African American male performer made...during the nineteenth century. Originally, minstrelsy...imitating African Americans, whom they portrayed...entertainment, African American men were required to...established roles, 19th century African American...

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Newspaper Articles on: 19th century american theater

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Theater of Young Fuels Western Life; Writer Finds 19th-Century Start, but Teenage Role Grows after War

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 20, 2007

Subjects:

Adolescence, Theater

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Theater of Young Fuels Western...Life; Writer Finds 19th-Century Start, but Teenage...know it to the late 19th-century - to the sense of...when a pent-up American economy and a baby...influence of black Americans on ragtime, jazz...
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Moneyed Women of the 19th Century

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), June 24, 2011

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Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Moneyed Women of the 19th Century. Byline: Marion...moneyed women of the 19th century and the...Quincy Adams, an American minister, complained...of these graceful Americans was not lost on...If Masterpiece Theater or HBO has not grabbed...social world of the 19th century than another...
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Bohemian Portrait the Art Institute of Chicago Captures the Cultureand Celebrity of 19th-Century Montmartre as Seen by Toulouse-Lautrec

Newspaper article by Barbara Vitello; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 15, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Celebrity of 19th-Century Montmartre as Seen...at the end of the 19th century. They also...at the end of the 19th century, said co...sophisticated shadow theater (where artists manipulated...approach. Loie Fuller: American dancer Loie Fuller...during the third century. Initially a Paris...
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From Bullfights to Theater Part II

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, July 15, 2009

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Bullfights, Musicians, Theater

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...From Bullfights to Theater Part II. Aside...here in the 17th century and revived by a...cavalry officer in the 19th century, going to the theater...life again in the American occupation, the...became the first American Civil Governor of...
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Fall Classics Accessible Dramas, Broadway Hits Dominate New Theater Season

Newspaper article by Barbara Vitello; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 7, 2007

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Broadway theater

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...revivals of mid-century gems by Tennessee...Victory Gardens Theaters collaboration with...dominated local musical theater. Not any more...Chicago Shakespeare Theaters "A Little Night...Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Navy Pier; 800...hailed as a new American classic, Steppenwolf...greed and lust in a 19th-century New England...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: 19th century american theater

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Theater

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Europe the trend in theater production was increasingly...family throughout 18th-century Europe. Theaters in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries The development of...audience in 18th-century France and England...not until the late 19th cent. that a more...cofounder of the Moscow Art Theater , who stressed the...
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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...published until two centuries after his death...infant American theater showed a nationalistic...first professional American novelist, Charles...every aspiring American writer and was...attention by presenting American folk stories...won the hearts of Americans with glib, moralizing...popular early in the 19th cent. This was...The Turn of the Century Trends in American...
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Directing

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Asian drama ; theater ; acting ; scene...During later centuries the stage manager...techniques. The 19th-century interest in...of the late 19th cent. included...During the 19th and early 20th cent., the American theater was...
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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...productions by theater groups such...Ridiculous Theater, e.g...about African Americans emerged as...explored black American life; writers...into the next century. Feminist...Twentieth Century Theater (2 vol...European and American Theatre and...Since the Late 19th Century (2d...
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Naturalism , in Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Moore and George Gissing , and the American writers Theodore Dreiser , Frank...naturalism developed in the late 19th cent. By stressing photographic...artificial theatricality prominent in 19th-century theater. The movement was most closely...

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