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Staging ground : an American theater and its ghosts / Leslie Stainton.
LIBRA PN2277.L362 F857 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stainton, Leslie, 1955- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fulton Opera House--History.
- Fulton Opera House.
- Theater--Pennsylvania--Lancaster--History.
- Theater.
- Theater and society--United States--History.
- Theater and society.
- Stainton, Leslie, 1955-.
- Stainton, Leslie.
- Yecker, Blasius, 1834-1903.
- Yecker, Blasius.
- History.
- United States.
- Pennsylvania--Lancaster.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 226 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- "Through both history and personal memoir, examines the role of the Fulton Theatre in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the shaping of American identity from colonial times to the present"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Haunted
- Mr. Yecker opens a theater: 1866
- The killing of the Conestogas: 1763
- Sacred space
- Mr. Hager builds a hall: 1852
- "What has the north to do with slavery?": 1852-1861
- Interlude
- Theater of war: 1861-1865
- Mr. Yecker opens an opera house: 1873
- In transit
- Buffalo Bill and the American West: 1873-1882
- Memory machine
- The minstrel's mask: 1852-1927
- Empty space
- Players: 1886-1893
- Women's work: 1870-1931
- Cartography
- Images, moving and still: 1896-1930
- Ghost dance: 1896-1997.
- Notes:
- "Keystone books."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-215) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271063652
- 0271063653
- OCLC:
- 868147517
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