Title Theatre, culture and temperance reform in nineteenth-century America / John W. Frick.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
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Description	xiii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series	Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama ; 17
	Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama ; 17.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-245) and index.
Contents	Introduction: a complex casuality of neglect -- "He drank from the poisoned cup": temperance reform in nineteenth-century America -- "Nine-tenths of all kindness": literature, the theatre and the spirit of reform -- "Every odium within one word": early American temperance drama and British prototypes -- Reform comes to Broadway: temperance on America's mainstream stages -- "In the halls": temperance entertainments following the Civil War -- Epilogue: "theatrical 'dry rot'"; or what price the Anti-Saloon League? -- Notes -- Appendix: nineteenth-century temperance plays.
Subject	American drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	American drama.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Temperance in literature.
	Temperance in literature.
	Temperance -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Temperance.
	United States.
	History.
	Theater and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Theater and society.
ISBN	0521817781