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Three hundred years of American drama and theatre, from Ye bare and ye cubb to Hair
- Title
- Three hundred years of American drama and theatre, from Ye bare and ye cubb to Hair / Garff B. Wilson.
- Author
- Wilson, Garff B.
- Publication
- Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, [1973]
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Details
- Description
- viii, 536 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- This book discusses forms of theatre and acting styles from drama to vaudeville, burlesque, and television through imaginary visits to four different periods of American history: 1770, 1850, 1902, and to the modern playhouse.
- Series Statement
- Prentice-Hall series in theatre and drama
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 508-515.
- Contents
- The curtain rises. . .and falls -- The curtain rises again -- Enter the American playwright -- The setting and the action, 1800-1850 -- Enter the American actor -- Melodrama takes center stage : American playwriting, 1800-1850 -- The setting at mid-century : the United States and its theater in 1850 -- The Golden Age of American acting -- The popular theatre grows up : and captivates the crowd -- Melodrama continues to star with a rival in the wings : American playwriting, 1850-1890 -- Realism begins to upstage melodrama : American playwriting at the turn of the nineteenth century -- The lively scene at the close of the nineteenth century -- The lively scene in acting -- Attending the theatre in 1902 -- The theatrical renaissance of the twentieth century -- The new playwriting -- Enter the motion picture -- Triumph and tragedy, comedy and failure : developments, 1920-1940 -- Playwriting between two World Wars -- Bright lights, the curtain : developments, 1940-1960 -- The Phoenix in flames : developments of the 1960s.
- ISBN
- 0139203141
- 9780139203145
- LCCN
- 72003808
- OCLC
- ocm00320049
- 320049
- SCSB-119526
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library