Staging Ground : : An American Theater and Its Ghosts /

Staging Ground : : An American Theater and Its Ghosts / / Leslie Stainton.

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In this poignant and personal history of one of America’s oldest theaters, Leslie Stainton captures the story not just of an extraordinary building but of a nation’s tumultuous struggle to invent itself. Built in 1852 and in use ever since, the Fulton Theatre in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is uniquely...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Stainton, Leslie,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Keystone Books
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 27 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Prologue: 1961
  • 1 Haunted
  • 2 Mr. Yecker Opens a Th eater: 1866
  • 3 The Killing of the Conestogas: 1763
  • 4 Sacred Space
  • 5 Mr. Hager Builds a Hall: 1852
  • 6 “What Has the North to Do with Slavery?”: 1852–1861
  • 7 Interlude
  • 8 Theater of War: 1861–1865
  • 9 Mr. Yecker Opens an Opera House: 1873
  • 10 In Transit
  • 11 Buffalo Bill and the American West: 1873–1882
  • 12 Memory Machine
  • 13 The Minstrel’s Mask: 1852–1927
  • 14 Empty Space
  • 15 Players: 1886–1893
  • 16 Women’s Work: 1870–1931
  • 17 Cartography
  • 18 Images, Moving and Still: 1896–1930
  • 19 Ghost Dance: 1896–1997
  • Epilogue: 2008
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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