Melodrama and the Myth of AmericaIndiana University Press, 1993 - 247 pages In nineteenth-century America, popular theatre acted as the vehicle for the construction of a national ideology. Melodrama and the Myth of America looks at five popular plays that took as their subjects important issues in American life: Metamora and the "Indian" Question, The Drunkard and the temperance movement, Uncle Tom's Cabin and slavery, My Partner and the American West, and Shenandoah and the Civil War. These plays present American history as a grand melodrama. |
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... Theatre , New York ( Meserve , Heralds 152 ) November 11 , 1842 - The Drunkard's Progress at the Arch Street Theatre ( Quinn 442 ) 1843 - Moral Exhibition of the Reformed Drunkard ( Krout 256 ) 1844 - One Cup More , Or the Doom of the ...
... Theatre , New York ( Meserve , Heralds 152 ) November 11 , 1842 - The Drunkard's Progress at the Arch Street Theatre ( Quinn 442 ) 1843 - Moral Exhibition of the Reformed Drunkard ( Krout 256 ) 1844 - One Cup More , Or the Doom of the ...
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... Theatre U.S.A. , 1668 to 1957. New York : McGraw - Hill , 1959 . Hornblow , Arthur . A History of the Theatre in America from Its Beginnings to the Present Time . 2 vols . Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott , 1919 . Hughes , Glenn . A ...
... Theatre U.S.A. , 1668 to 1957. New York : McGraw - Hill , 1959 . Hornblow , Arthur . A History of the Theatre in America from Its Beginnings to the Present Time . 2 vols . Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott , 1919 . Hughes , Glenn . A ...
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... Theatre , Philadelphia , October 10 , 1899 . Gillette , William . Held by the Enemy . New York : Samuel French , 1898. Criterion Theatre , Brooklyn , February 22 , 1886 ; revised for reopening at Charles Frohman's Madison Square Theatre ...
... Theatre , Philadelphia , October 10 , 1899 . Gillette , William . Held by the Enemy . New York : Samuel French , 1898. Criterion Theatre , Brooklyn , February 22 , 1886 ; revised for reopening at Charles Frohman's Madison Square Theatre ...
Contents
Constructing American Ideology | 1 |
Metamora 1829 and the Indian Question | 23 |
The Drunkard 1844 and the Temperance Movement | 61 |
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