Theatre, culture and temperance reform in nineteenth-century America / John W. Frick.
Frick, John W.
2003
PS338.T45 F75 2003 (Mapit)
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Title
Theatre, culture and temperance reform in nineteenth-century America / John W. Frick.
Author
Frick, John W.
ISBN
0521817781
Publication Details
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PS338.T45 F75 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification
792.097309034
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-245) and index.
Series
Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama ; 17
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Introduction: a complex casuality of neglect
"He drank from the poisoned cup": temperance reform in nineteenth-century America
"Nine-tenths of all kindness": literature, the theatre and the spirit of reform
"Every odium within one word": early American temperance drama and British prototypes
Reform comes to Broadway: temperance on America's mainstream stages
"In the halls": temperance entertainments following the Civil War
Epilogue: "theatrical 'dry rot'"; or what price the Anti-Saloon League?
Notes
Appendix: nineteenth-century temperance plays.

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