From Traveling Show to Vaudeville: Theatrical Spectacle in America, 1830-1910 Hardcover - 2003
by Robert M. Lewis (Editor)
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Robert M. Lewis has assembled a remarkable collection of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century primary sources that document America's age of theatrical spectacle. In eight parts, Lewis explores dime museums, minstrelsy, circuses, melodramas, burlesque shows, Wild West shows, amusement parks, and vaudeville.
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Robert M. Lewis has assembled a remarkable collection of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century primary sources that document America's age of theatrical spectacle. In eight parts, Lewis explores dime museums, minstrelsy, circuses, melodramas, burlesque shows, Wild West shows, amusement parks, and vaudeville.
--Mark Evan Swartz, author of Oz before the Rainbow: L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz on Stage and Screen to 1939Details
- Title From Traveling Show to Vaudeville: Theatrical Spectacle in America, 1830-1910
- Author Robert M. Lewis (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
- Date September 30, 2003
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780801870873 / 0801870879
- Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
- Dimensions 9.82 x 6.26 x 1.22 in (24.94 x 15.90 x 3.10 cm)
- Ages 22 to UP years
- Grade levels 17 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Performing arts - United States - History -, Performing arts - United States - History -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002152161
- Dewey Decimal Code 791.097
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