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Staging Ground : An American Theater and Its Ghosts /

"In this poignant and personal history of one of America's oldest theaters, Leslie Stainton captures the story not just of an extraordinary building but of a nation's tumultuous struggle to invent itself. Built in 1852 and in use ever since, the Fulton Theatre in Lancaster, Pennsylvan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Stainton, Leslie, 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Haunted
  • Mr. Yecker opens a theater: 1866
  • The killing of the Conestogas: 1763
  • Sacred space
  • Mr. Hager builds a hall: 1852
  • "What has the north to do with slavery?": 1852-1861
  • Interlude
  • Theater of war: 1861-1865
  • Mr. Yecker opens an opera house: 1873
  • In transit
  • Buffalo Bill and the American West: 1873-1882
  • Memory machine
  • The minstrel's mask: 1852-1927
  • Empty space
  • Players: 1886-1893
  • Women's work: 1870-1931
  • Cartography
  • Images, moving and still: 1896-1930
  • Ghost dance: 1896-1997.