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David Grimsted

Melodrama Unveiled

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america
american audiences
american culture
american history
american theater
antebellum america
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changing society
cultural history
diverse audiences
drama historians
dramatic settings
early american drama
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historical perspective
limited plays
melodrama
performing arts
playwrights
popular culture
social values
stage mechanics
theater and culture
theater criticism
theater critics
theater managers
theater performers

Product details

  • ISBN 9780520059962
  • Weight: 454g
  • Publication Date: 09 Mar 1988
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description
David Grimsted's "Melodrama Unveiled" explores early American drama to try to understand why such severely limited plays were so popular for so long. Concerned with both the plays and the dramatic settings that gave them life, Grimsted offers us rich descriptions of the interaction of performers, audiences, critics, managers, and stage mechanics. Because these plays had to appeal immediately and directly to diverse audiences, they provide dramatic clues to the least common denominator of social values and concerns. In considering both the context and content of popular culture, Grimsted's book suggests how theater reflected the rapidly changing society of antebellum America.