It Was Play or Starve: Acting in the Nineteenth-Century American Popular Theatre by Hanners, John

"It Was Play or Starve": Acting in the Nineteenth-Century American Popular Theatre (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780879725877)

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It Was Play or Starve: Acting in the Nineteenth-Century American Popular Theatre by Hanners, John

"It Was Play or Starve": Acting in the Nineteenth-Century American Popular Theatre

$15.95
It Was Play or Starve: Acting in the Nineteenth-Century American Popular Theatre by Hanners, John

"It Was Play or Starve": Acting in the Nineteenth-Century American Popular Theatre

$15.95
Format: Paperback
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American popular entertainers in the nineteenth century faced physical hardships, prejudices, and cultural barriers. This book examines the fascinating world of these itinerant actors and their experiences with early showboats, frontier theater, minstrelsy, panorama exhibitions, and the circus. Admirable and not-so-admirable characters, who possessed equal amounts of pluck, courage, and naivet , are contrasted popular cultural tastes

Author: John Hanners
ISBN-10: 0879725877
ISBN-13: 9780879725877
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1993
Pages: 170
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.70h x 6.00w x 0.40d

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