Life Upon the Wicked Stage (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780893703639)

The articles that form this volume are compiled from the pages of the New York Clipper. Covering the three decades of the 1860s through 1880s, they convey a naïve sentiment regarding the theatre of that day, self-conscious and protective, sensitive toward outside pressures and puritanical abuses, and self-critical of personal behavior within the little world of theatrical troupes. Here are marvelous first-hand accounts of the major theatres and players of the nineteenth-century American stage, compiled by Dr. William L. Slout, one of the best-known theatrical and circus historians of our time. Complete with reproductions of numerous contemporaneous illustrations, plus a comperhensive index.

Author: William L. Slout
ISBN-10: 089370363X
ISBN-13: 9780893703639
Publisher: Borgo Press
Language: English
Published: 09/30/2007
Pages: 188
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d