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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Thomas Hamblin and the Bowery Theatre
    sub title: The New York Reign of "Blood and Thunder" Melodramas
  name:
    name part: Bogar, Thomas A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 301 p. 6 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book recounts the personal and professional life of Thomas Souness Hamblin (1800-1853), Shakespearean actor and Bowery Theatre manager. Primarily responsible for the popularity of "blood and thunder" melodramas with working class audiences in New York City, Hamblin discovered, trained and promoted many young actors and, especially, actresses who later became famous in their own right. He also epitomized the "sporting man" of mid-nineteenth century life, conducting a scandalous series of affairs and visits to Manhattan brothels, which cost him his marriage to Elizabeth Blanchard Hamblin (1799-1849) and made him the brunt of moralist, religious and journalistic crusades, notably that of James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald. His machinations and perseverance through trying challenges, including several destructions of the Bowery Theatre by fire, extensive financial and legal complications, and the untimely deaths of several young protégées, earned him equal measures of admiration and opprobrium.
  table of contents: 1. "He is yet very young, both in years and practice" (1800-25) -- 2. "Let those who view this sad example know/ What fate attends the broken marriage vow" (1825-30) -- 3. "We girls always patronize the Bowery" (1830-31) -- 4. "Throw not the pearl of Shakespeare's wit before the swine of the Bowery pit" (1831-33) -- 5. "Down with the British bastard!" (1833-35) -- 6. "Circumstances never satisfactorily explained" (1835-36) -- 7. "Marius brooding over the ruins of Carthage" (1837-38) -- 8. "The public have only themselves to blame for the reign of melodrama" (1838-40) -- 9. "The sanity of all the parties are at par value" (1840-42) -- 10. "We are not dead yet, boys!" (1842-48) -- 11. "The noblest Roman of them all" (1848-51) -- 12. "Blessings and benedictions" (1851-53).
  note: by Thomas A. Bogar.
  subject:
    topic: Theater-History
  subject:
    topic: Performing arts
  subject:
    topic: Theater
  subject:
    topic: Actors
  subject:
    topic: Theatre History
  subject:
    topic: Performing Arts
  subject:
    topic: Performers and Practitioners
  subject:
    topic: Theatre Industry
  classification: PN2100-2193
  classification: 792.09
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
  identifier: 9783319684062
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68406-2
  record info:
    record creation date: 171211
    record change date: 20191028122340.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-68406-2