American Melodrama (PAJ Books)
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ISBN: 0933826214 / Publisher: PAJ Publications, July 2001
Gerould goes a long way toward 'revisioning' the genre.--Nineteenth-Century Theatre Research
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These plays show a fascinating side of the American melodramatic imagination as it was nurtured in the social world of the nineteenth century, and later grew to be a dominant genre in the theatre, film, and television of today. Includes: The Poor of New York by Dion Boucicault, Uncle Tom's Cabin by George Aiken/Harriet Beecher Stowe, Under the Gaslight by Augustin Daly, The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco.
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