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Research
& How To
> Leisure
& Pastimes
> Theatre
Theatre and Drama: Just as those
reading this website have undoubtely heard of celebrities
like Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts or Meryl Streep, famous actors
such as the Booth brothers, Laura Keene, Pauline Cushman,
Joseph Jefferson, Charlotte Cushman and actor-playwright
Dion Boucicault would have been part of the average person's
frame of reference during the Civil War. The melodramas of
a generation earlier, of August
Friedrich von Kotzebue
and Charles
Guilbert de
Pixérécourt,
and the continuing melodramatic tradition of such writers as
Dion Boucicault in the mid 19th century, were as much if not
more a part of the popular culture than the classical
tragedies, histories and comedies of Shakespeare, but are
little known today. General 19th Century Theatre Resources:
Individual Actors and Actresses:
Typical Publicity Photographs of Actors in Costume
Theatres of the Era:
Playwrights, Directors & Impresarios:
Texts of Period Plays Online:
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