This book examines the role of temperance drama in American theatre and compares the American genre to its British counterpart.

"This study of the daily work lives of five members of the Marsh Troupe, a nineteenth-century professional acting company composed primarily of children, sheds

This volume explores the history of American drama from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It describes origins of early republican drama and its evolutio

Scenic spectacles collapse the borders of graphic and visual arts, multimedia technology, spectatorship and architecture. Drawing upon various systems of commer

In this brilliant study, Marc Robinson explores more than two hundred years of plays, styles, and stagings of American theater. Mapping the changing cultural la