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It Was Play Or Starve
It Was Play Or Starve, American popular entertainers in the nineteenth century faced physical hardships, prejudices, and cultural barriers. This book examines the fascinating world of these itinerant actors and their experiences with early showboats, frontier theater, minstrels, It Was Play Or Starve has a rating of 4 stars
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  • It Was Play Or Starve
  • Written by author Michael Marsden
  • Published by University of Wisconsin Press, January 1993
  • American popular entertainers in the nineteenth century faced physical hardships, prejudices, and cultural barriers. This book examines the fascinating world of these itinerant actors and their experiences with early showboats, frontier theater, minstrels
  • American popular entertainers in the nineteenth century faced physical hardships, prejudices, and cultural barriers. This book examines the fascinating world of these itinerant actors and their experiences with early showboats, frontier theater, minstrels
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Preface1
Pt. 1Showboats, Minstrels and Panoramas7
Ch. 1"It Was Play or Starve": An Early Showboat Entertainer9
Ch. 2William Henry Lane, "Master Juba": The Man Who Invented Tap Dance23
Ch. 3The "Great Three-Mile" Painting35
Pt. 2Child Prodigies, Museums and European Visitors55
Ch. 4Infant Phenomena: The Bateman Sisters on Stage57
Ch. 5Banvard's Museum and Theatre, Broadway and Thirtieth Streets: A Study in Theatre Failure69
Ch. 6Revolt in Milwaukee: The 1891-1892 Pseudo "Meininger" American Tour83
Pt. 3Theatre in Small Town America95
Ch. 7"Left for Parts Unknown": The Professional Stock Company in Terre Haute, Indiana, 1857-185897
Ch. 8A Stop on the "Proximical" Tour: Edwin Booth in Terre Haute113
Pt. 4The Circus129
Ch. 9"Larceny in His Soul": The Circus Grifter131
Notes147
Works Cited155


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