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Performing the American Frontier, 1870–1906

By Roger A. Hall

(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 281. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00.)


Performing the American Frontier, 1870–1906, Roger A. Hall's chronicle of American plays and theatrical productions that treated the subject of the westward movement, is a theatrical survey in the tradition of Garff B. Wilson, the author of A History of American Acting (1966) and Three Hundred Years of American Drama and Theatre (1973, 1982).	1
In a chronologically organized narration, Hall discusses or describes more than fifty plays, devoting special attention to fifteen, among them: Across the Continent (1870); Kit, the Arkansas Traveller (1871); Davy Crockett (1872); M'liss (1878); My Partner (1879); Jesse James, The Bandit King (1883); In Mizzoura (1893); The Virginian (1904); The Squaw Man (1905); and The Girl of the Golden West (1905). Typical of the author's treatment of these works is his section on My Partner. Here, Hall offers brief biographies of producers Louis Aldrich and Charles T. Parsloe, describes the circumstances that led to the production, provides a synopsis of the play and a summary of the reviews, lists the cast members, engages in a brief analysis of the play's treatment of moral standards and use of a courtroom scene, and traces the effects of the play's success on Al-drich, Parsloe, and playwright Bartley Campbell.	. . .

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