19th Century Theatre History   Tags: 19th century, actors, nineteenth century, theater, theatre  

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Here is one example of the many Bibliographies you can find by clicking on the Bibliographies link: Young, William C. Famous Actors and Actresses on the American Stage in the series Documents of American Theater History. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1975.
Bobst Ref1 PN2285.Y6 1975b vol. 1 & 2
"Presents information about 225 American actors, mostly from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He uses excerpts from articles, interviews, and reviews published at the time the actor was working to present both the actor's views on the profession and the critical reception of his or her work."

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The Shakespeare riots : revenge, drama, and death in nineteenth-century America

Call Number: NYU Bobst Main Collection (PN2277.N5 C58 2007

ISBN: 0345486943

The Astor Place riot - Richard Moody 1911

Call Number: NYU Bobst Main Collection (PN2277.N5 M48 )

The fabulous Forrest : the record of an american actor - Montrose Jonas Moses 1878-1934.

Call Number: NYU Bobst Main Collection (PN2287.F6 M6 )

Edwin Forrest, American actor, between 1844(1844) and 1860.  This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under the digital ID cph.3c10205. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edwin_Forrest.jpg

Forrest, Edwin

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An enormously popular early American play, John Augustus Stone's Metamora; Or the Last of the Wampanoags , is an example of how captivity narratives so influenced Americans' self concept that early American literatures manipulated tropes of captivity in their attempt to define "American."

Dissertations are authored by students to satisfy degree requirements. They usually are not professionally edited. They mark the beginning of the student's efforts in a field. The Bibliograpies are particulary useful. If you would like to see or other dissertations, go to the library page: http://library.nyu.edu/ select Articles & Databases and select the letter D.

The Theatre in Video Database Contains more than 250 performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 documentaries, all in streaming video.

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See tab number 2 Finding Articles via BobCat

via the database Accessible Archives .  Go to the Finding Articles/Databases tab.

Via Historical Proquest Newapapers.  Go to the Newspapers/Oral Histories/Archives tab.