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It Was Play or Starve: Acting in the Nineteenth-Century American Popular Theatre
Contributor(s): Hanners, John (Author)

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 ISBN: 0879725877     ISBN-13: 9780879725877
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
OUR PRICE: $15.15  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: January 1993
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Popular Culture
- Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism
Dewey: 792.090
LCCN: 93070629
Series: Entertainment and Leisure Studies
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6" W x 8.7" L (0.50 lbs) 170 pages
Features: Bibliography, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:
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
 
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