Explores often neglected forms of entertainment such as vaudeville, burlesque, minstrel shows, and circuses, noting their contribution to America's cultural tradition

American Popular Entertainment: Papers and Proceedings of the Conference on the History of American Popular Entertainment (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies)

MATLAW, Myron

Conference on the History of American Popular Entertainment

American Society for Theatre Research

Theatre Library Association

Sports & Outdoors

Praeger

Modern World Drama: an Encyclopedia

Literature & Fiction

E.P.Dutton & Co.

Almost 1,000 fully indexed and illustrated pages containing nearly 1,000,000 words covering 80 countries, 688 playwrights, 1,058 plays and drama terms.

Modern world drama;: An encyclopedia

Reference

Dutton

(Applause Books). From Broadway to Topeka these four smash hits were the staples of the American dramatic repertoire. Their revival in this landmark collection will once again bring America to its feet! Includes: "Fashion," "The Octoroon," "Rip van Winkle," and "Margaret Fleming." Myron Matlaw's comprehensive introduction provides a splendid survey of the development of American drama from its inception through the 19th Century. Individual prefaces focus each work in the perspective of its historical context.

19th Century American Plays

Boucicault, Dion

Mowatt, Anna Cora

Herne, James A.

Jefferson, Joseph

Dramas & Plays

Applause

inch....this work is likely to become a standart work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken inch. (Oliver James,Contact Magazine) A novel and comprehensive approach to transferring from the C to F instrument. 430 music examples include folk and national songs (some in two parts), country dance tunes and excerpts from the standard treble repertoire of•Bach, Barsanti, Corelli, Handel, Telemann, etc. An outstanding feature of the book has proved to be Brian Bonsor's brilliantly simple but highly effective practice circles and recognition squares designed to give, in only a few minutes, concentrated practice on the more usual leaps to and from each new note and instant recognition of random notes. Quickly emulating the outstanding success of the descant tutors, these books are very popular even with those who normally use tutors other than the Enjoy the Recorder series.

Nineteenth Century American Plays

inch....this work is likely to become a standart work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken inch. (Oliver James,Contact Magazine) A novel and comprehensive approach to transferring from the C to F instrument. 430 music examples include folk and national songs (some in two parts), country dance tunes and excerpts from the standard treble repertoire of•Bach, Barsanti, Corelli, Handel, Telemann, etc. An outstanding feature of the book has proved to be Brian Bonsor's brilliantly simple but highly effective practice circles and recognition squares designed to give, in only a few minutes, concentrated practice on the more usual leaps to and from each new note and instant recognition of random notes. Quickly emulating the outstanding success of the descant tutors, these books are very popular even with those who normally use tutors other than the Enjoy the Recorder series.

Arts & Photography

Music

Seven hits that have been the staples of the American dramatic repertoire. Myron Matlaw's introduction provides a splendid survey of the development of American drama. Individual prefaces focus each work in the perspective of its historical context.

Nineteenth Century American Plays: Seven Plays Including The Black Crook (Applause Books)

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