A Concise History of the Life and Amours of Thomas S. Hamblin, Late Manager of the Bowery Theatre
Author: Mrs. Mary Clarke
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Published: 184?
Total Pages: 40
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Author: Mrs. Mary Clarke
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Published: 184?
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas A. Bogar
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-12-11
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 331968406X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Jane K. Curry
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1994-07-21
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 0313031096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany women held positions of great responsibility and power in the United States during the 19th century as theatre managers: managing stock companies, owning or leasing theatres, hiring actors and other personnel, selecting plays for production, directing rehearsals, supervising all production details, and promoting their dramatic offerings. Competing in risky business ventures, these women were remarkable for defying societal norms that restricted career opportunities for women. The activities of more than 50 such women are discussed in Nineteenth-Century American Women Theatre Managers, beginning with an account of 15 pioneering women managers who were all managing theatres before 24 December 1853, when Catherine Sinclair, often incorrectly identified as the first woman theatre manager in the United States, opened her theatre in San Francisco.
Author: Theodore Shank
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 636
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library)
Publisher: Boston : The Trustees
Published: 1919
Total Pages: 976
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Amelia Howe Kritzer
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780472065981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHighlights the achievements and significance of women playwrights in early American drama.
Author: John Harvey Vincent Arnold
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Susan Branson
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2013-03-26
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 0812201426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1823, the History of the Celebrated Mrs. Ann Carson rattled Philadelphia society and became one of the most scandalous, and eagerly read, memoirs of the age. This tale of a woman who tried to rescue her lover from the gallows and attempted to kidnap the governor of Pennsylvania tantalized its audience with illicit love, betrayal, and murder. Carson's ghostwriter, Mary Clarke, was no less daring. Clarke pursued dangerous associations and wrote scandalous exposés based on her own and others' experiences. She immersed herself in the world of criminals and disreputable actors, using her acquaintance with this demimonde to shape a career as a sensationalist writer. In Dangerous to Know, Susan Branson follows the fascinating lives of Ann Carson and Mary Clarke, offering an engaging study of gender and class in the early nineteenth century. According to Branson, episodes in both women's lives illustrate their struggles within a society that constrained women's activities and ambitions. She argues that both women simultaneously tried to conform to and manipulate the dominant sexual, economic, and social ideologies of the time. In their own lives and through their writing, the pair challenged conventions prescribed by these ideologies to further their own ends and redefine what was possible for women in early American public life.
Author: Paula García-Ramírez
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-11-30
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1000988090
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays brings together a wide range of Spanish and Portuguese academics and writers exploring the ways in which our encounters with literatures in English inform our assumptions about texts and identities (or texts as identities) and the way we read them. Mapping, examining, reading and re-reading, fashioning and self-fashioning and, especially, weaving appear as appropriate images that convey the complexity and the nature of creative writing. Such a metaphor has been fundamental for the history of world literature since the Roman poet Ovid had included a tale in his Metamorphoses in which weaving, narration, uncertain identities, and the risks of telling uncomfortable truths all figure prominently. As such, these essays trace the intertwined patterns that knit texts together, weaving identities as well as undoing them and, in the process, interrogating established and official truths.
Author: Miriam López Rodríguez
Publisher: Universitat de València
Published: 2011-11-28
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 8437085543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAquesta col·lecció d'assajos mostra els múltiples aspectes de la contribució que va fer la dona, al teatre americà del segle XIX. En aquest estudi s'ensenyen diversos tipus de dones i els rols que ocupen, així com reflecteix la manera que Susan Glaspell i Sophie Treadwell van ajudar a donar forma al teatre, entre moltes altres que escriurien dècades més tard.