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Theater in the Ante Bellum South 1815-1861
by Dormon, James H Jr
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near fine
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About This Item
xii+322 pages with illustrations, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. James Dormon traces in detail the development of the vast province south of the Mason-Dixon Line and the Ohio River and establishes the nature of southern theatrical activity as reflected in programming, production and audience composition and behavior. Audiences of the period represented a cross section of southern society, from lordly planter to plantation slave. Of interest to historians and to students of the theater, this volume is also of value to scholars in the field of American Studies. Condition: Some foxing to page ends. price clipped else a near fine copy in like jacket.
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- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS001993
- Title
- Theater in the Ante Bellum South 1815-1861
- Author
- Dormon, James H Jr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- ANTE BELLUM SOUTH DRAMA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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