Stage, page, scandals, and vandals : William E. Burton and nineteenth-century American theatre / David L. Rinear.
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Language: | English |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
©2004.
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Series: | Theater in the Americas.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. England, 1802-1834
- 2. The making of a star actor and man of letters, 1834-1840
- 3. Management, enemies, and bankruptcy, 1840-1842
- 4. On the road, 1842-1844
- The resumption of management, 1844-1848
- The beginning of management in New York, 1848-1850
- The most successful theatre in New York, 1850-1852
- The decline of Burton's Chambers Street Theatre, 1852-1856
- 9. Burton's New Theatre, 1856-1858
- The fading star, 1858-1860
- Epilogue : performing respectability.