Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Watkins, Harry, 1825-1894, author.

Title A player and a gentleman : the diary of Harry Watkins, nineteenth-century US American actor / edited by Amy E. Hughes and Naomi J. Stubbs.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2018.
©2018

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (vii, 341 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary "Hardworking actor, playwright, and producer Harry Watkins (1825-94) was also a prolific diarist. For 15 years Watkins regularly recorded the plays he saw, the roles he performed, the books he read, and his impressions of current events. Performing across the U.S., Watkins collaborated with preeminent performers and producers, recording his successes and failures as well as his encounters with celebrities such as P.T. Barnum, Junius Brutus Booth, Edwin Forrest, Anna Cora Mowatt, and Lucy Stone. His is the only known diary of substance written by a U.S. actor before the Civil War--making Watkins, essentially, the antebellum equivalent of Samuel Pepys. Theater historians Amy E. Hughes and Naomi J. Stubbs have selected, edited, and annotated substantial excerpts from the diary in an edition that offers a vivid glimpse of how ordinary people like Watkins lived, loved, struggled, and triumphed during one of the most tumultuous periods in U.S. history. The selections in A Player and a Gentleman are drawn from a more expansive digital archive of the complete diary. The book, like its digital counterpart, will richly enhance our knowledge of antebellum theater culture and daily life in the U.S. during this period"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Introduction -- Harry Watkins (1825-1894): a chronology -- 1845-46 -- 1846-47 -- 1847-48 -- 1848-49 -- 1849-50 -- 1850-51 -- 1851-52 -- 1852-53 -- 1853-54 -- 1854-55 -- 1855-56 -- 1856-57 -- 1857-58 -- 1858-59 -- 1859-60 -- Index of people -- Index of play titles -- Index of subjects.
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject Watkins, Harry, 1825-1894 -- Diaries.
Watkins, Harry, 1825-1894.
Genre/Form Diaries.
Subject Watkins, Harry, 1825-1894. Diares. Selections.
Actors -- United States -- Diaries.
Actors.
United States.
Theater -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Theater.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Diaries.
Added Author Hughes, Amy, editor.
Stubbs, Naomi J., 1981- editor.
Added Title Diaries. Selections https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2018063464
Diary of Harry Watkins, nineteenth-century US American actor
Other Form: Print version: Watkins, Harry, 1825-1894. Player and a gentleman. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2018 9780472130917 (DLC) 2018021214
ISBN 9780472124060 (electronic book)
0472124064 (electronic book)
9780472130917
0472130919
Standard No. 10.3998/mpub.9290953