Search Results - "The Stage"

Staging the war American drama and World War II / by Wertheim, Albert

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Staging difference cultural pluralism in American theatre and drama /

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The villainous stage : crime plays on Broadway and in the West End / by Lachman, Marvin

Table of Contents: “…Early days -- Adaptations and sensation -- History and mystery on stage -- Sherlock Holmes: Baker Street on stage -- Series detectives and rogues -- Agatha Christie, playwright -- Crook plays -- The theatre of the mind -- Trial and error: courtrooms on stage -- The stage side of the triangle -- The spy who came onto the stage -- A funny thing happened on the way to the theatre -- Spoofing the mystery -- Social studies I: race, ethnicity, and religion -- Social studies II: criminal justice -- Whodunits -- Just in crime: the musical.…”
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Staging Desire : Queer Readings of American Theater History /

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Buffalo Bill on stage by Sagala, Sandra K.

Table of Contents: “…Setting the stage -- Treading the boards -- Wild times with Wild Bill -- Border life onstage -- First scalp for Custer -- Incidents and accidents -- Sir Cody, knight of the plains -- Rescuer of the prairie waif -- Exit stage right -- Finale -- Appendix 1 : character lists and program notes for Buffalo Bill's dramas -- Appendix 2 : Buffalo Bill combination's cities and dates -- Appendix 3 : newspaper sources.…”
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Lives in play autobiography and biography on the feminist stage / by Claycomb, Ryan M., 1974-

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Penumbra : the premier stage for African American drama / by Mahala, Macelle

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Theatre, society, and the nation staging American identities / by Wilmer, S. E.

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Africana women writers : performing diaspora, staging healing / by Marzette, DeLinda

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Dark matter : invisibility in drama, theater, and performance / by Sofer, Andrew, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…How to do things with demons: conjuring performatives in Doctor Faustus -- Quantum mechanicals: desiring bottom in A midsummer night's dream -- Unmasking women: The rover and sexual signification on the Restoration stage -- Unbecoming acts: power, performance, and the self-consuming body in Tennessee Williams's Suddenly last summer -- Bugs in the mind: The archbishop's ceiling and Arthur Miller's prismatic drama -- Invisible wounds: rehearsing trauma on the contemporary stage.…”
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Entertaining the nation : American drama in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / by Miller, Tice L.

Table of Contents: “…British drama and the colonial American stage -- American drama of the new republic -- Drama in the age of Jackson -- The age of melodrama -- Realism and American drama.…”
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The American play 1787-2000 / by Robinson, Marc, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Envisioning the Nineteenth Century -- 2. Staging the Civil War -- 3. Realism against Itself -- 4. …”
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The face of America plays for young people /

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Dreaming America : Popular Front Ideals and Aethetics in Children's Plays of the Federal Theatre Project / by Frost, Leslie Elaine

Table of Contents: “…Raising up an educated audience : Federal Children's Theatre -- The Revolt of the beavers : "we should have called it Rumplestiltskin" -- "I looked him right square in the eye" : the story of Little Black Sambo in the Federal Theatre Project -- Shadows of war and homefront patriotism : anti-fascism and the innocent child in the Federal A letter to Santa Claus and Hollywood's The little princess -- Wishing on a star : Pinocchio's journey from the Federal stage to Disney's world.…”
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Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies : Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance / by Wilson, James F.

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