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"It Was Play or Starve": Acting in the Nineteenth-Century American Popular Theatre
University of Wisconsin Press, 1993 Paper: 978-0-87972-587-7 Library of Congress Classification PN2245.H36 1993 Dewey Decimal Classification 792.09034
ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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 See other books on: 19th century | Acting | Popular Culture | Theater | United States See other titles from University of Wisconsin Press |
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"It Was Play or Starve": Acting in the Nineteenth-Century American Popular Theatre
ABOUT THIS BOOK
University of Wisconsin Press, 1993
Paper: 978-0-87972-587-7
Paper: 978-0-87972-587-7
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
ABOUT THIS BOOK
