An Actor's Tale

Harry Watkins was no one special. During a career that spanned four decades, this nineteenth-century actor yearned for fame but merely skirted the edges of it. He performed alongside the brightest stars, wrote scores of plays, and toured the United States and England, but he never became a household...

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Main Authors:	Hughes, Amy E., Hughes, Amy
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	University of Michigan Press 2025
Subjects:	Theater, Actors, Acting, Theater History, Theater Management, Casting, Drama, Playwrights, Nineteenth Century, Diaries, Everyday Life, Popular Entertainment, America, United States, American Culture, Social History, History from Below, Microhistory, Capitalism, Self-Made Man, Individualism, American Dream, Meritocracy, Whiteness, White Mediocrity, White Male Mediocrity, White Fragility, White Supremacy, American thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CB Language: reference and general::CBV Creative writing and creative writing guides
Online Access:	ONIX_20250929T091909_9780472905287_5
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