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Moving Diorama in Play: William Dunlap's Comedy A Trip to Niagara (1828)

by Dorothy B. Richardson
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781934844168
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Teneo Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Teneo Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 472
  • Original Price: GBP 33.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Annotated ed
  • Item Weight: 685 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

A Trip to Niagara; or, Travellers in America, a three-act comedy, opened at New York's Bowery Theatre on November 28, 1828, for a long run. Scripted and later published by William Dunlap (1766-1839), the so-called "father of the American stage," this play offers a bounty to theater historians, dramatic critics, and all those interested in the American culture during Dunlap's lifetime. This study explores the Bowery, the play's moving diorama, the text, and the playwright, and emphasizes their interrelationships. This analysis of A Trip to Niagara as a theatrical event joins hands with dramatic criticism. An annotated transcript of the play is helpfully provided in the appendix of the book. This study contends that had there been no moving diorama, there would have been no play. Since William Dunlap called his text a "running accompaniment," it should be analyzed in terms of this function. The play's few critics have failed to do this. Hence, the interplay of the moving diorama (and conventional scenic backdrops) with the plot and characters comprises another significant segment of this study. This book makes significant contributions to studies of antebellum American theater, the Nationalist Period in American culture, and William Dunlap.

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