Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Timeline: beginnings to 1870
- 1 American theatre in context, from the beginnings to 1870
- 2 Structure and management in the American theatre from the beginning to 1870
- 3 Plays and playwrights
- 4 The Actors
- 5 Scenography, stagecraft, and architecture in the American theatre: beginnings to 1870
- 6 Paratheatricals and popular stage entertainment
- Bibliography
Timeline: beginnings to 1870
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Timeline: beginnings to 1870
- 1 American theatre in context, from the beginnings to 1870
- 2 Structure and management in the American theatre from the beginning to 1870
- 3 Plays and playwrights
- 4 The Actors
- 5 Scenography, stagecraft, and architecture in the American theatre: beginnings to 1870
- 6 Paratheatricals and popular stage entertainment
- Bibliography
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- The Cambridge History of American Theatre , pp. 20 - 109Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998