THET110NotesNovember 5, 2012History of American TheaterAnti-Theater Sentiments in Colonies- 1642-1660 Puritans closed theater and other entertainments in England- Puritan Philip Stubbes writes that plays are “sucked out of the devil’s teates to nourish us in ydolitrie, hethenrie, and sinne”- Quaker William Penn, declared playgoing “an offense against God, which incited people to rudeness…”- First Continental Congress – October 1774o Theater was banned in the Northern Colonies- After the revolutionary war:o William Dunlap – “Father of American Theater” Theater as a “powerful engine of social change”- The Contrast by Royall Tyler- Map of New Yorko Urban tenementso The Bowery B’hoyso Edwin Forrest American star – actor Playwriting competition – he set it up Chose a winning play- Edwin Forrest vs. Charles Macready- What was the middle class watching?o Melodrama- Temperance- The theatrical syndicate – A theater monopoly in the Age of the Robber Barrons- The Little Theater Movement- Eugene O’Neill- Arthur Miller- Tennessee Williams- Edward
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