Volume 40, Issue 4, Fall/Winter 2006-07
Popular Entertainment and American Theater prior to 1900
Nicolas Witschi, Guest Editor
 
Introduction

Nicolas Witschi
The “Female Martinet”: Mrs. Harper, Gender, and Civic Virtue on the Early Republican Stage
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Jason Shaffer
Suffering Silences, Woeful Afflictions: Physical Disability, Melodrama, and the American Charity Movement
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Sheila Moeschen
Edwin Forrest’s Redding Up: Elocution, Theater, and the Performance of the Frontier
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Matthew Rebhorn
Opposing Forces: (Re)Playing Pocahontas and the Politics of Indian Removal on the Antebellum Stage
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Rebecca Jaroff
The Bride Wielded a Razor: Images of Women on the Blackface Stage of James McIntyre and Thomas Heath
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Leslie Pasternack

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