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- catalog contributor b2476005.
- catalog created "c1989.".
- catalog date "1989".
- catalog date "c1989.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1989.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 207-234.".
- catalog description "The one-person show in late nineteenth-century America : the golden age of platform performances. Charles Dickens ; The Lyceum ; Adgar Allen Poe ; James E. Murdoch ; Women on the platform : Anna Cora Mowatt, Fanny Kemble and Charlotte Cushman ; The founding of the Chaurauqua Assembly ; Performers of the Chautauqua Assemblies : Robert McLean Cumnock, Helen Potter, Leland Powers ; Chautauqua versus vaudeville ; Mark Twain ; Conclusion -- The one-person show in early twentieth-century America : transition from "platform performance" to "solo theatre." The tent Chautauqua circuits ; The reaction against victorianism ; Entertainments on the tent Chautauqua circuits ; The end of the victorian intolerance for the theatre : drama at Chautauqua ; The collapse of the tent Chautauqua and Lyceum circuits ; The transition for "platform performance" to "solo theatre" ; Solo performers, 1920-50 : Cissie Loftus, Dorothy Sands, Charles Laughton, Ruth Draper, Cornelia Otis Skinner ; Conclusion -- The Renaissance of the one-person show in America : 1950 to the present. Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens ; Hal Holbrook's Mark Twain Tonight! ; The biographical one-person show genre ; Performance genres related to the biographical one-person show ; Problems of the genre : the use of biography in solo performance ; From biography to autobiography : Spalding Gray, An Evening with Quentin Crisp ; Contemporary Shakespeare and Bible recitals : John Bielgud's Ages of Man, Ian McKellen Acting Shakespeare, Alec McCowen's St. Mark's Gospel ; Centemporary monologuists : Lily Tomlin, Whoopi Goldberg, Eric Bogosian ; Contemporary writer-performers in "The Age of the Reading" : Dylan Thomas ; The beat poets and beyond ; The great debate: The page versus the stage ; Conclusion ; Conclusion : The performer's perspective.".
- catalog extent "xi, 245 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Cast of one.".
- catalog identifier "0252015843 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Cast of one.".
- catalog issued "1989".
- catalog issued "c1989.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog relation "Cast of one.".
- catalog subject "808.5/4 19".
- catalog subject "Multiple role acting.".
- catalog subject "One-person shows (Performing arts)".
- catalog subject "Oral interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PN4145 .G45 1989".
- catalog tableOfContents "The one-person show in late nineteenth-century America : the golden age of platform performances. Charles Dickens ; The Lyceum ; Adgar Allen Poe ; James E. Murdoch ; Women on the platform : Anna Cora Mowatt, Fanny Kemble and Charlotte Cushman ; The founding of the Chaurauqua Assembly ; Performers of the Chautauqua Assemblies : Robert McLean Cumnock, Helen Potter, Leland Powers ; Chautauqua versus vaudeville ; Mark Twain ; Conclusion -- The one-person show in early twentieth-century America : transition from "platform performance" to "solo theatre." The tent Chautauqua circuits ; The reaction against victorianism ; Entertainments on the tent Chautauqua circuits ; The end of the victorian intolerance for the theatre : drama at Chautauqua ; The collapse of the tent Chautauqua and Lyceum circuits ; The transition for "platform performance" to "solo theatre" ; Solo performers, 1920-50 : Cissie Loftus, Dorothy Sands, Charles Laughton, Ruth Draper, Cornelia Otis Skinner ; Conclusion -- The Renaissance of the one-person show in America : 1950 to the present. Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens ; Hal Holbrook's Mark Twain Tonight! ; The biographical one-person show genre ; Performance genres related to the biographical one-person show ; Problems of the genre : the use of biography in solo performance ; From biography to autobiography : Spalding Gray, An Evening with Quentin Crisp ; Contemporary Shakespeare and Bible recitals : John Bielgud's Ages of Man, Ian McKellen Acting Shakespeare, Alec McCowen's St. Mark's Gospel ; Centemporary monologuists : Lily Tomlin, Whoopi Goldberg, Eric Bogosian ; Contemporary writer-performers in "The Age of the Reading" : Dylan Thomas ; The beat poets and beyond ; The great debate: The page versus the stage ; Conclusion ; Conclusion : The performer's perspective.".
- catalog title "Cast of one : one-person shows from the Chautauqua platform to the Broadway stage / John S. Gentile.".
- catalog type "text".