Author: James M. Barriskill
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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An Index for Record of the Boston Stage, by W.W. Clapp, Jr., James Munroe and Company, Boston, 1853
Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-room Companion
Author: Maturia Murray Ballou
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Gleason's Pictorial
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Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Arts in America: Photography, film, theater, dance, music, serials and periodicals, dissertations and theses, visual resources
Author: Bernard Karpel
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Publisher:
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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University of California Union Catalog of Monographs Cataloged by the Nine Campuses from 1963 Through 1967: Authors & titles
Author: University of California (System). Institute of Library Research
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Subject index
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1876-1949: Non-Dewey decimal classified titles
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2200
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2200
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The American Dramatist
Author: Montrose Jonas Moses
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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The Contrast
Author: Cynthia A. Kierner
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814783430
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
“The Contrast“, which premiered at New York City's John Street Theater in 1787, was the first American play performed in public by a professional theater company. The play, written by New England-born, Harvard-educated, Royall Tyler was timely, funny, and extremely popular. When the play appeared in print in 1790, George Washington himself appeared at the head of its list of hundreds of subscribers. Reprinted here with annotated footnotes by historian Cynthia A. Kierner, Tyler’s play explores the debate over manners, morals, and cultural authority in the decades following American Revolution. Did the American colonists' rejection of monarchy in 1776 mean they should abolish all European social traditions and hierarchies? What sorts of etiquette, amusements, and fashions were appropriate and beneficial? Most important, to be a nation, did Americans need to distinguish themselves from Europeans—and, if so, how? Tyler was not the only American pondering these questions, and Kierner situates the play in its broader historical and cultural contexts. An extensive introduction provides readers with a background on life and politics in the United States in 1787, when Americans were in the midst of nation-building. The book also features a section with selections from contemporary letters, essays, novels, conduct books, and public documents, which debate issues of the era.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814783430
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
“The Contrast“, which premiered at New York City's John Street Theater in 1787, was the first American play performed in public by a professional theater company. The play, written by New England-born, Harvard-educated, Royall Tyler was timely, funny, and extremely popular. When the play appeared in print in 1790, George Washington himself appeared at the head of its list of hundreds of subscribers. Reprinted here with annotated footnotes by historian Cynthia A. Kierner, Tyler’s play explores the debate over manners, morals, and cultural authority in the decades following American Revolution. Did the American colonists' rejection of monarchy in 1776 mean they should abolish all European social traditions and hierarchies? What sorts of etiquette, amusements, and fashions were appropriate and beneficial? Most important, to be a nation, did Americans need to distinguish themselves from Europeans—and, if so, how? Tyler was not the only American pondering these questions, and Kierner situates the play in its broader historical and cultural contexts. An extensive introduction provides readers with a background on life and politics in the United States in 1787, when Americans were in the midst of nation-building. The book also features a section with selections from contemporary letters, essays, novels, conduct books, and public documents, which debate issues of the era.
The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Publisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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