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245 04 The American stage :|bwriting on theater from Washington 
       Irving to Tony Kushner /|cLaurence Senelick, editor ; 
       [foreword by John Lithgow]. 
264  1 New York :|bLibrary of America,|c[2010] 
264  4 |c©2010 
300    xxxi, 867 pages :|billustrations ;|c21 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Library of America ;|v203s 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 00 |tFrom Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. /|rWashington 
       Irving --|tPrologue for the Opening of the Chestnut Street
       Theatre, Philadelphia /|rCharles Sprague --|tfrom History 
       of the American Theatre /|rWilliam Dunlap --|tfrom 
       Domestic Manners of the Americans /|rFrances Trollope --
       |tSome Observations on the Theater of Democratic Peoples /
       |rAlexis de Tocqueville --|tOn Anna Cora Mowatt's Fashion 
       /|rEdgar Allan Poe --|tThe Gladiator-Mr. Forrest-Acting ;
       |tMiserable State of the Stage ;|tThe Old Bowery /|rWalt 
       Whitman --|tThe Astor Place Riot /|rPhilip Hone --|tfrom 
       Mimic Life; or, Before and Behind the Curtain /|rAnna Cora
       Mowatt --|tThe Menken ;|tThe Model Artists ;|tThe Minstrel
       Show /|rMark Twain --|tfrom The Journals /|rCharles King 
       Newcomb --|tAbout Nudity in Theatres /|rOlive Logan --
       |tfrom The Genial Showman: The Church in the Theatre and 
       the Theatre in the Church /|rEdward P. Hingston --|tNotes 
       on the Theatres ;|tfrom A Small Boy and Others /|rHenry 
       James --|tClara Morris /|rAlan Dale --|tThe Art of Edwin 
       Booth: Hamlet /|rWilliam Winter --|tUncle Tom's Cabin ;
       |tAntony and Cleopatra (1) ;|tAntony and Cleopatra (2) /
       |rWilla Cather --|tfrom The Spirit of the Ghetto: Theatres,
       Actors and Audience /|rHutchins Hapgood --|tMelodrama /
       |rRollin Lynde Hartt --|tMy Most Successful Play /|rLottie
       Blair Parker --|tStage Struck /|rChanning Pollock --|tSome
       American Dramatic Material ;|tHamlet /|rStark Young --
       |t"The Illusion of the First Time" in Drama /|rWilliam 
       Gillette --|tMr. James Joyce and the Modern Stage /|rEzra 
       Pound --|tMrs. Fiske on Ibsen the Popular /|rAlexander 
       Woollcott --|tFrank Wedekind /|rJames G. Huneker --|tThe 
       Painter and the Stage /|rLee Simonson --|tMimi Aguglia as 
       Salome /|rCarl Van Vechten --|tThe Jest /|rDorothy Parker 
       -- 
505 80 |tMr. Belasco Explains ;|tSusan Glaspell /|rLudwig 
       Lewisohn --|tAbie's Irish Rose Review and Bulletins /
       |rRobert Benchley --|tI Gaspiri-"The Upholsterers": A 
       Drama in Three Acts /|rRing Lardner --|tThe Dæmonic in the
       American Theatre /|rGilbert Seldes --|tBurlesque Shows /
       |rEdmund Wilson --|tThe Negro and the American Stage /
       |rAlain Locke --|tthe old trouper /|rDon Marquis --|tThe 
       Audience Emotion ;|tOn Vaudeville ;|tEugene O"Neill /
       |rGeorge Jean Nathan --|tThe Days of Jig Cook ;|tAlla 
       Nazimova /|rDjuna Barnes --|tJames A. and Katharine Herne 
       /|rHamlin Garland --|tCain's Warehouse /|rSidney Skolsky -
       -|tTrouble with the Angels /|rLangston Hughes --|tfrom Of 
       Time and the River /|rThomas Wolfe --|tWaiting for Santy /
       |rS. J. Perelman --|tOur Town ;|tStandards in Drama 
       Criticism /|rBrooks Atkinson --|tThe Man Who Came to 
       Dinner with George Kaufman Directing /|rMorton Eustis --
       |tfrom Arena /|rHallie Flanagan --|tSome Thoughts on 
       Playwriting /|rThornton Wilder --|tAudience Tomorrow: 
       Preview in New Guinea /|rElia Kazan --|tA Streetcar Called
       Success /|rMary McCarthy --|tTennessee Williams ;|tThe 
       Famous "Method" ;|tfrom The Theatre of the Thirties /
       |rHarold Clurman --|tEven as You and I /|rJohn Mason Brown
       --|tTerry Helburn /|rFrances Parkinson Keyes --|tFolklore 
       on Forty-Seventh Street ;|tfrom Bentley on Brecht /|rEric 
       Bentley --|tThe American Theater /|rArthur Miller --|tThe 
       Life and Death of Vaudeville /|rFred Allen --|tBarns /
       |rWalter Kerr --|tAuthor and Director: A Delicate 
       Situation /|rTennessee Williams --|tEugene O'Neill's A 
       Touch of the Poet ;|tThe Commercialites ;|tBernard Shaw's 
       Heartbreak House /|rGore Vidal --|t"Me tink me hear sounds
       in de night" /|rLorraine Hansberry --|tWhich Theater Is 
       the Absurd One? /|rEdward Albee --|tThe Becks' Living 
       Theatre /|rCharles L. Mee, Jr. --|tBoredom in the Theatre 
       /|rJohn Simon --|tEl Teatro Campesino /|rLuis Valdéz --
       |tMarat/Sade/Artaud /|rSusan Sontag --|tA Short Statement 
       on Street Theatre /|rEd Bullins --|tNotes on the New 
       Theater /|rElizabeth Hardwick --|tfrom The Season /
       |rWilliam Goldman --|tfrom Notes on a Cowardly Lion /
       |rJohn Lahr --|tfrom Run-Through: A Memoir /|rJohn 
       Houseman --|tfrom A Personal History of the American 
       Theatre /|rSpalding Gray --|tThe Death of Broadway /
       |rThomas M. Disch --|tGay Theatre /|rCharles Ludlam --
       |t"Dolly" Goes Away /|rFrank Rich --|tHeidi Chronicled /
       |rWendy Wasserstein --|tThe Chitlin Circuit /|rHenry Louis
       Gates, Jr. --|tThe Problem Play /|rDavid Mamet --|tfrom A 
       Director Prepares: Terror /|rAnne Bogart --|tKushner on 
       Miller /|rTony Kushner. 
650  0 American drama|xHistory and criticism. 
650  0 Theater|zUnited States|xHistory. 
700 1  Senelick, Laurence. 
830  0 Library of America ;|v203s. 
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