EARLY AMERICAN THEATRE AND DRAMA
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REQUIRED TEXTS:

· Walter Meserve, On Stage, America! {A}

· Jeffrey Richards, Early American Drama {B}

· David Grimsted, Melodrama Unveiled:  American Theatre and Culture, 1800-1850 {C}

· Karen Halttunen, Confidence Men and Painted Women:  A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America,

1830-1870 {D}

· Bruce McConachie, Melodramatic formations:  American Theatre & Society, 1820-1870 {E}

Benjamin McArthur, Actors and American Culture, 1880-1920 {K}

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RESERVE READINGS: Fiske-Kimball Fine Arts Library

ANTHOLOGIES [2 Each]:

· Richard Moody, Drama from the American Theatre [The Mulligan Guard Ball] {G}

· John Gassner, Best Plays of the Early American Theatre {H}

· T.P. Taylor, The Bottle in Performing Arts Resources 16 {J}

* Wilmeth & Bigsby, The Cambridge History of American Theatre, II {L}

* = Late addition to reading list

XEROX COPIES [2 Each]: {F}

· Rosemarie K. Bank, "Melodrama as a Social Document:  Factors in the American Frontier Play."

· Paul Boyer, "The Jacksonian Era" and "The Urban Threat Emerges, from Urban Masses and Moral Order in America.

· DeMastes, selections from Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition.

· Downer, Waiting for O'Neill

· Faye Dudden, "Acting Female," From Women in the American Theatre.

· Joyce Flynn, "Melting Plots:  Patterns of Racial and Ethnic Amalgamation in American Drama Before Eugene O'Neill."

· John Frick, "Anti-intellectualism and Representations of 'Commonness' in the Nineteenth -Century American Theatre."

· _________, "'He Drank from the Poisoned Cup':  Theatre, Culture and Temperance Reform in Ante-bellum America."

· Elliot Gorn, "Good Bye Boys, I Die a True American."

· David Grimsted, "Melodrama as Echo of the Historically Voiceless."

· Stuart Hall, "Notes on Deconstructing 'The Popular.'"

· Hodge, Prologue to Yankee Theatre

· Richard Hofstadter, selections from Anti-intellectualism in American Life.

· ________________, The Paranoid Style in American Politics.

· Claudia Johnson, "That Guilty Third Tier.  Prostitution in Nineteenth Century Theaters."

· Felicia Hardison Londre, "Money Without Glory:  Turn-of-the-Century Woman Playwrights."

· Eric Lott, "'The Seeming Counterfeit':  Racial Politics and Early Blackface Minstrelsy."

· Jeffrey Mason, "The Politics of Metamora."

· Benjamin McArthur, selections from  Actors and American Culture.

· Bruce McConachie, "Towards A Postpositivist Theatre History."

· ________________, "Out of the Kitchen and into the Marketplace:  Normalizing Uncle Tom's Cabin for the Antebellum Stage."

· Brooks McNamara, "A Congress of Wonders."

· ________________, selections from  American Popular Entertainments

· Vera Mowry Roberts, "'Lady Managers' in Nineteenth-century American Theatre."

· Andrea Stulman-Dennett, Preface to Weird and Wonderful.

· Warren Susman, "The City in American Culture"and  "Personality and the Making of Twentieth-century Culture" from Culture as History.

· Don B. Wilmeth, "Noble or Ruthless Savage?  The American Indian on Stage and in the Drama."

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READINGS CHART

Walter Meserve, On Stage, America!	A
Jeffrey Richards, Early American Drama	B
David Grimsted, Melodrama Unveiled:  American Theatre and Culture, 1800-1850	C
Karen Halttunen, Confidence Men and Painted Women:  A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870	D
Bruce McConachie, Melodramatic formations:  American Theatre & Society, 1820-1870	E
Xerox Copies:  Fiske-Kimball Fine Arts Library	F
Richard Moody, Drama from the American Theatre [The Mulligan Guard Ball]:  Reserve Readings:  Fiske-Kimball	G
John Gassner, Best Plays of the Early American Theatre:  Reserve Readings:  Fiske-Kimball	H
T.P. Taylor, The Bottle in Performing Arts Resources 16	J
Benjamin McArthur, Actors and American Culture, 1880-1920	K
Wilmeth & Bigsby, The Cambridge History of American Theatre, II	L

PLAYS:

· Royal Tyler, The Contrast [A, B, G, H]

· John Augustus Stone, Metamora [A, G]

· James Nelson Barker, The Indian Princess [B]

· W.H. Smith & a "Gentleman,"The Drunkard [B, G]

· T. P. Taylor, The Bottle [J]

· George Aiken, Uncle Tom's Cabin [A, B, G H]

· Denman Thompson, The Old Homestead [G]

· Dion Boucicault, The Octoroon [A, B, H]

· Anna Cora Mowett, Fashion [A, B, G, H]

· Benjamin Baker, A Glance at New York [A]

· Rip Van Winkle [A] {Optional}

· James A. Herne, Margaret Fleming [G]

· Edward Sheldon, Salvation Nell [H]

· Eugene Eugene Walter, The Easiest Way [H]

· William Vaughn Moody, The Great Divide [F, G, H]

· Augustin Daly, Under the Gaslight [A]

· Charles Fechter, The Count of Monte Cristo [H] {Optional}

· Clyde Fitch, The City [G]

· Edward Harrigan & Hart, The Mulligan Guard Ball [G]

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