One Man in His Time: The Adventures of H. Watkins, Strolling Player, 1845-1863, from His JournalThis book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas. |
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Page 41
... drama lies moribund in the Ohio River Valley , even in Cincinnati and Louisville . The Journalist's eyes look yearn- ingly to the South again . During the summer he has sent letters to Ludlow & Smith pleading for an engagement in New ...
... drama lies moribund in the Ohio River Valley , even in Cincinnati and Louisville . The Journalist's eyes look yearn- ingly to the South again . During the summer he has sent letters to Ludlow & Smith pleading for an engagement in New ...
Page 98
... drama he ordered the nearest playwright to mix a concoction of gunpowder , liberty , heroism , red - coats , Mexi- cans , George Washington , Winfield Scott , and " Old Glory , ” and serve it up hot on his stage . A Revolutionary novel ...
... drama he ordered the nearest playwright to mix a concoction of gunpowder , liberty , heroism , red - coats , Mexi- cans , George Washington , Winfield Scott , and " Old Glory , ” and serve it up hot on his stage . A Revolutionary novel ...
Page 99
... drama's high seas . Plays achieved success , then appeared under other titles at rival theatres ; there was no ... dramatic construction . Wednesday 19th . The best acting dramas have come from the pens of actors or persons directly or ...
... drama's high seas . Plays achieved success , then appeared under other titles at rival theatres ; there was no ... dramatic construction . Wednesday 19th . The best acting dramas have come from the pens of actors or persons directly or ...
Contents
BARNSTORMING IN THE FORTIES | 1 |
THE WARTIME THEATRE | 19 |
THREE SOUTHWESTERN PLAYHOUSES | 28 |
Copyright | |
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