Clyde Fitch and popular American theatre, 1890 to 1909
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Published: 1992
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Published: 1950
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Published: 1950
Total Pages: 283
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Published: 1948
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Published: 1947
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016-07-29
Total Pages: 607
ISBN-13: 1611479487
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClyde Fitch (1865-1909) was the most successful and prolific dramatist of his time, producing nearly sixty plays in a twenty-year career. He wrote witty comedies, chaotic farces, homespun dramas, star vehicles, historical works, stark melodramas, and adaptations of European successes, but he was best known for his society plays, mirroring themes found in the novels of Henry James and Edith Wharton. In fact, Fitch collaborated with Wharton on a stage adaptation of her House ofMirth. He was also a gay man, although that gentler adjective was not the term of his time. He was bullied in school and baited by critics throughout his career for what they supposed of his private life. He responded with impressive strength and integrity. He was, at least for a short time, Oscar Wilde’s lover, and Wilde influenced his early plays, but Fitch’s study of Ibsen and other European dramatists inspired him to pursue the course of naturalism. As he became more successful, he took greater control of the staging and design of his plays. He was a complete man of the theatre and among the first names enrolled in New York’s theatrical hall of fame.
Author: Clyde Fitch
Publisher: Book Jungle
Published: 2010-03
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781438574134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClyde Fitch (1865 - 1909) was an American dramatist. He wrote over 60 plays, which varied from social comedies and farces to melodrama and historical dramas. He is remembered for his works Nathan Hale (1898), The Climbers (1901), and The Girl with the Green Eyes (which ran 108 performances at the Savoy Theatre in 1902). The Girl with the Green Eyes begins with a bride and her bridesmaids. The bride has green eyes and a jealous heart. As the play progresses her jealousy increases to a point where her husband leaves her. She tries to kill herself by turning on the gas, but her husband arrives in time to save her.
Author: Don B. Wilmeth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 9780521651790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe second volume of the authoritative, multi-volume Cambridge History of American Theatre, first published in 1999, begins in the post-Civil War period and traces the development of American theatre up to 1945. It covers all aspects of theatre from plays and playwrights, through actors and acting, to theatre groups and directors. Topics examined include vaudeville and popular entertainment, European influences, theatre in and beyond New York, the rise of the Little Theatre movement, changing audiences, modernism, the Federal Theatre movement, scenography, stagecraft, and architecture. Contextualising chapters explore the role of theatre within the context of American social and cultural history, and the role of American theatre in relation to theatre in Europe and beyond. This definitive history of American theatre includes contributions from the following distinguished academics - Thomas Postlewait, John Frick, Tice L. Miller, Ronald Wainscott, Brenda Murphy, Mark Fearnow, Brooks McNamara, Thomas Riis, Daniel J. Watermeier, Mary C. Henderson, and Warren Kliewer.
Author: Francis Henry Kelly
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Published: 1926
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2010-08-26
Total Pages: 705
ISBN-13: 0199574197
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn authoritative reference covering primarily actors, playwrights, directors, styles and movements, companies and organizations.