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"It Was Play or Starve": Acting in the Nineteenth-Century American Popular Theatre (Entertainment and Leisure Studies)

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American popular entertainers in the nineteenth century faced physical hardships, prejudices, and cultural barriers. This book examines the fascinating world of these itinerant actors and their experiences with early showboats, frontier theater, minstrelsy, panorama exhibitions, and the circus. Admirable and not-so-admirable characters, who possessed equal amounts of pluck, courage, and naivet, are contrasted popular cultural tastes




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Pages   170
Dimensions:   Length: 8.8" Width: 6" Height: 0.4"
Weight:   0.55 lbs.
Binding  Softcover
Release Date   Jan 1, 1993
ISBN  0879725877  
EAN  9780879725877  


Availability  100 units.
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