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Excerpt from William Dunlap: Study of His Life and Works and His Place in Contemporary Culture The existing material bearing on his life is at best limited, and for me it has been limited further still. The owner of seven of the eleven known volumes of Dunlap's manuscript Diary has been unwilling to give me access to them, and thus a possible source of information has been cut off. However, if one may judge from the four avail able volumes, the other seven contain details which would amplify, but in no way alter, the outline of his life as presented elsewhere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com Th...
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As America passed from a mere venue for English plays into a country with its own nationally regarded playwrights, William Dunlap lived the life of a pioneer on the frontier of the fledgling American theatre, full of adventures, mishaps, and close calls. He adapted and translated plays for the American audience and wrote plays of his own as well, learning how theatres and theatre companies operated from the inside out. Dunlap's masterpiece, A History of American Theatre was the first of its kind, drawing on the author's own experiences. In it, he describes the development of theatre in New York, Philadelphia, and South Carolina as well as Congress's first attempts at theatrical censorship. Never before previously indexed, this edition also includes a new introduction by Tice L. Miller.
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