Author: Francis Courtney WEMYSS
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Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Theatrical Biography; or the life of an Actor and Manager. Interspersed with sketches, anecdotes, and opinions of the professional merits of the most celebrated Actors and Actresses of our day
Author: Francis Courtney WEMYSS
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Theatrical Biography
Author: Francis Courtney Wemyss
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Thomas Hamblin and the Bowery Theatre
Author: Thomas A. Bogar
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331968406X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This book recounts the personal and professional life of Thomas Souness Hamblin (1800-1853), Shakespearean actor and Bowery Theatre manager. Primarily responsible for the popularity of “blood and thunder” melodramas with working class audiences in New York City, Hamblin discovered, trained and promoted many young actors and, especially, actresses who later became famous in their own right. He also epitomized the “sporting man” of mid-nineteenth century life, conducting a scandalous series of affairs and visits to Manhattan brothels, which cost him his marriage to Elizabeth Blanchard Hamblin (1799-1849) and made him the brunt of moralist, religious and journalistic crusades, notably that of James Gordon Bennett’s New York Herald. His machinations and perseverance through trying challenges, including several destructions of the Bowery Theatre by fire, extensive financial and legal complications, and the untimely deaths of several young protégées, earned him equal measures of admiration and opprobrium.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331968406X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This book recounts the personal and professional life of Thomas Souness Hamblin (1800-1853), Shakespearean actor and Bowery Theatre manager. Primarily responsible for the popularity of “blood and thunder” melodramas with working class audiences in New York City, Hamblin discovered, trained and promoted many young actors and, especially, actresses who later became famous in their own right. He also epitomized the “sporting man” of mid-nineteenth century life, conducting a scandalous series of affairs and visits to Manhattan brothels, which cost him his marriage to Elizabeth Blanchard Hamblin (1799-1849) and made him the brunt of moralist, religious and journalistic crusades, notably that of James Gordon Bennett’s New York Herald. His machinations and perseverance through trying challenges, including several destructions of the Bowery Theatre by fire, extensive financial and legal complications, and the untimely deaths of several young protégées, earned him equal measures of admiration and opprobrium.
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Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Monthly Bulletin
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Monthly Bulletin of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Languages : en
Pages : 884
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Languages : en
Pages : 884
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Popular Legends
Author: Elizabeth Fries Ellet
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Category : Legends
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Category : Legends
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Loiterings in Europe; Or
Author: John W. Corson
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Henry Brewster Stanton
Publisher: New York : Baker and Scribner
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Publisher: New York : Baker and Scribner
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Twenty-six Years of the Life of an Actor and Manager
Author: Francis Courtney Wemyss
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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