Contributor
Senelick, Laurence.
Imprint:New York : Library of America, 2010.
Descriptionxxxi, 867 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Note:From Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. / Washington Irving -- Prologue for the opening of the Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia / Charles Sprague -- From History of the American theatre / William Dunlap -- From Domestic manners of the Americans / Frances Trollope -- Some observations on the theater of democratic peoples / Alexis de Tocqueville -- On Anna Cora Mowatt's Fashion / Edgar Allan Poe -- The gladiator -- Mr. Forrest -- Acting ; Miserable state of the stage ; The old bowery / Walt Whitman -- The Astor Place riot / Philip Hone -- From Mimic life ; or, before and behind the curtain / Anna Cora Mowatt -- The menken ; The model artists ; The minstrel show / Mark Twain -- From The journals / Charles King Newcomb -- About nudity in theatres / Olive Logan -- From The genial showman : the church in the theatre and the theatre in the church / Edward P. Hingston -- Notes on the theatres ; From A small boy and others / Henry James -- Clara Morris / Alan Dale -- The art of Edwin Booth : Hamlet / William Winter -- Uncle Tom's cabin ; Antony and Cleopatra (1) ; Antony and Cleopatra (2) / Willa Cather -- From The spirit of the ghetto : theatres, actors and audience / Hutchins Hapgood -- Melodrama / Rollin Lynde Hartt -- My most successful play / Lottie Blair Parker -- Stage struck / Channing Pollock -- Some American dramatic material ; Hamlet / Stark Young -- "The illusion of the first time" in drama / William Gillette -- Mr. James Joyce and the modern stage / Ezra Pound -- Mrs. Fiske on Ibsen the popular / Alexander Woollcott -- Frank Wedekind / James G. Huneker -- The painter and the stage / Lee Simonson -- Mimi Aguglia as Salome / Carl Van Vechten -- The jest / Dorothy Parker.Mr. Belasco explains ; Susan Glaspell / Ludwig Lewisohn -- Abie's Irish rose review and bulletins / Robert Benchley -- I Gaspiri -- "The upholsterers" : a drama in three acts / Ring Lardner -- The dmonic in the American theatre / Gilbert Seldes -- Burlesque shows / Edmund Wilson -- The Negro and the American stage / Alain Locke -- The old trouper / Don Marquis -- The audience emotion ; On Vaudeville ; Eugene O'Neill / George Jean Nathan -- The days of Jig Cook ; Alla Nazimova / Djuna Barnes -- James A. and Katharine Herne / Hamlin Garland -- Cain's warehouse / Sidney Skolsky -- Trouble with the angels / Langston Hughes -- From Of time and the river / Thomas Wolfe -- Waiting for Santy / S.J. Perelman -- Our town ; Standards in drama criticism / Brooks Atkinson -- The man who came to dinner with George Kaufman directing / Morton Eustis -- From Arena / Hallie Flanagan -- Some thoughts on playwriting / Thornton Wilder -- Audience tomorrow : preview in New Guinea / Elia Kazan -- A streetcar called success / Mary McCarthy -- Tennessee Williams ; The famous "method" ; From The theatre of the thirties / Harold Clurman -- Even as you and I / John Mason Brown -- Terry Helburn / Frances Parkinson Keyes -- Folklore on Forty-Seventh Street ; From Bentley on Brecht / Eric Bentley -- The American theater / Arthur Miller -- The life and death of Vaudeville / Fred Allen -- Barns / Walter Kerr -- Author and director : a delicate situation / Tennessee Williams -- Eugene O'Neill's A touch of the poet ; The commercialites ; Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak house / Gore Vidal -- "Me tink me hear sounds in de night" / Lorraine Hansberry -- Which theater is the absurd one? / Edward Albee -- The Becks' living theatre / Charles L. Mee, Jr. -- Boredom in the theatre / John Simon -- El Teatro Campesino / Luis Valdez -- Marat/Sade/Artaud / Susan Sontag -- A short statement on street theatre / Ed Bullins -- Notes on the new theater / Elizabeth Hardwick -- From The season / William Goldman -- From Notes on a cowardly lion / John Lahr -- From Run-through : a memoir / John Houseman -- From A personal history of the American theatre / Spalding Gray -- The death of Broadway / Thomas M. Disch -- Gay theatre / Charles Ludlam -- "Dolly" goes away / Frank Rich -- Heidi chronicled / Wendy Wasserstein -- The chitlin circuit / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- The problem play / David Mamet -- From A director prepares : terror / Anne Bogart -- Kushner on Miller / Tony Kushner.
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