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Staging Ground : : an American Theater and its Ghosts

Stainton, Leslie, 1955- author. Book - 2014 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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"Keystone books."
Haunted -- Mr. Yecker opens a theater: 1866 -- The killing of the Conestogas: 1763 -- Sacred space -- Mr. Hager builds a hall: 1852 -- "What has the north to do with slavery?": 1852-1861 -- Interlude -- Theater of war: 1861-1865 -- Mr. Yecker opens an opera house: 1873 -- In transit -- Buffalo Bill and the American West: 1873-1882 -- Memory machine -- The minstrel's mask: 1852-1927 -- Empty space -- Players: 1886-1893 -- Women's work: 1870-1931 -- Cartography -- Images, moving and still: 1896-1930 -- Ghost dance: 1896-1997.
"Through both history and personal memoir, examines the role of the Fulton Theatre in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the shaping of American identity from colonial times to the present"--Provided by publisher.

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PUBLISHED
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014]
Year Published: 2014
Description: xvi, 226 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780271063652
0271063653

SUBJECTS
Stainton, Leslie, -- 1955-
Yecker, Blasius, -- 1834-1903.
Fulton Opera House -- History.
Theater -- Lancaster -- History.
Theater and society -- History.