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American Theatre Companies, 1749-1887. New York: Greenwood, 1986. 598 pp. Heralds of Promise: The Drama of the American People in the course of the Age of Jackson, 1829-1849. New York: Greenwood, 1986. 269 pp. A History of the American Drama from the Civil War to the Present Day, rev. ed., two vols. The only volumes printed of a projected 6-volume crucial history of plays created and printed in America from its colonization to the present. Meserve. Chapters are devoted to these kinds of subjects as administration, plays and playwrights, actors, administrators, theatrical teams, musical theater, stagecraft, and preferred enjoyment numerous contributors are amongst the foremost students in the field. The bulk of the entries are for performs (with length of New York operate the main criterion governing range), recording place and date of authentic creation, size of operate, and solid and giving a short synopsis and critical commentary. Entrants in the primary version (1984 734 pp.) are indexed in Biography and Genealogy Master Index (J565). |
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