Curiosities of the American Stage
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About This Book
A collection of magazine articles about theatrical history written by the author. The various chapters treat of the native American drama, from the time of Royall Tyler, author of "The Contrast," to the time of Bronson Howard....
Chapters (9)
- E-text prepared by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://archive.org)
- THE ARGUMENT.
- ACT I. THE NATIVE AMERICAN DRAMA.
- ACT II. THE AMERICAN STAGE NEGRO.
- ACT III. THE AMERICAN BURLESQUE.
- ACT IV. INFANT PHENOMENA OF AMERICA.
- ACT V. A CENTURY OF AMERICAN HAMLETS.
- THE CAST OF CHARACTERS.
- THE SYNOPSIS OF SCENERY.
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