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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2014]
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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.