American Melodrama
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These plays show a fascinating side of the American melodramatic imagination as it was nurtured in the social world of the nineteenth century, and later grew to be a dominant genre in the theatre, film, and television of today. Includes: "The Poor of New York" by Dion Boucicault, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by George Aiken/Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Under the Gaslight" by Augustin Daly, "The Girl of the Golden West" by David Belasco.
Gerould goes a long way toward 'revisioning' the genre.--Nineteenth-Century Theatre Research

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These plays show a fascinating side of the American melodramatic imagination as it was nurtured in the social world of the nineteenth century, and later grew to be a dominant genre in the theatre, film, and television of today. Includes: "The Poor of New York" by Dion Boucicault, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by George Aiken/Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Under the Gaslight" by Augustin Daly, "The Girl of the Golden West" by David Belasco.
Gerould goes a long way toward 'revisioning' the genre.--Nineteenth-Century Theatre Research
Autorenporträt
Lucille Lortel Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, City University of New York; Executive Director, Martin E. Segal Theatre Center; editor, Slavic and East European Performance; editor, Routledge Harwood Polish and East European Theatre Archive; author of Witkacy, Guillotine: Its Legend and Lore, Theatre/Theory/Theatre, and translations of Polish and Russian drama.