Thomas Hamblin and the Bowery Theatre The New York Reign of "Blood and Thunder" Melodramas /

• Main Author: Bogar, Thomas A. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• Subjects: Theater-History.; Performing arts.; Theater.; Actors.; Theatre History.; Performing Arts.; Performers and Practitioners.; Theatre Industry.

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...

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).