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  • From Rags to Ricketts and Other Essays on Circus History
    William L. Slout
    William L. Slout, circus historian par excellence, here provides six essays on the development of the American circus. 'From Rags to Ricketts: The Roots of Circus in Early Gotham' looks at the beginnings of circus entertainment in old New York City during the eighteenth century. 'The Great Roman Hippodrome of 1874: P. T. Barnum’s ’Crowning Effort’' describes the great showman’s...
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    16,49 €

  • Olympians of the Sawdust Circle
    William L. Slout
    The culmination of more than thirty years of research, Olympians of the Sawdust Circle is an attempt to identify every major and minor player in the American circus world of the nineteenth century. This A-Z guide lists: surname, given name, dates of birth and death (if known), type of entertainment (and function) with which the individual was associated, and the companies and d...
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    47,20 €

  • The Burial of Alma
    William L. Slout
    This modern comedy highlights the clash between Denver Littlefield, a history professor at a California University, and his actress wife, Sarah Coleman, whose sudden surge in popularity after being cast in a popular soap opera threatens to swamp her husband’s image and career. 3 ...
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    16,61 €

  • Olympians of the Sawdust Circle
    William L. Slout
    The culmination of more than thirty years of research, Olympians of the Sawdust Circle is an attempt to identify every major and minor player in the American circus world of the nineteenth century. This A-Z guide lists: surname, given name, dates of birth and death (if known), type of entertainment (and function) with which the individual was associated, and the companies and d...
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    28,72 €

  • Broadway Below the Sidewalk
    William L. Slout
    The Broadway of the 1860s in New York City began at Bowling Green at the southern tip of Manhattan, and extended all the way to Tarrytown. During this period concert saloons entertained a sizeable portion of the Broadway night life. Variety entertainments were performed in converted theatres amid a barroom atmosphere, where patrons were attended by 'pretty waiter girls.' Taken ...
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    15,63 €

  • Chilly Billy
    William L. Slout
    'Chilly Billy' was the nickname of circus mogul William Washington Cole, the chief rival of P. T. Barnum. Cole was born into a circus family in 1847, and beginning in 1870 and continuing through 1886, developed 'Cole’s Colossal Circus' into a money-making enterprise. He wisely invested his earnings in real estate, making himself a multimillionaire before finally closing down sh...
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    20,86 €

  • The Trial of Dr. Jekyll
    William L. Slout
    In this adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,' William L. Slout focuses on Jekyll’s sublimation of his wantonness, and the hypocrisy of his unrestrained involvement in it. He loses control of his better self to the overpowering evil of his baser side. Herein lies the tragedy of the man and his times. A powerful modern version of th...
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    14,30 €

  • Clowns and Cannons
    William L. Slout
    This is the story of the survival of American circuses throughout one of the most perilous periods in our nation’s history: 1860-1865. This was a period of transition for traveling exhibitions. The size of equipment and personnel had leveled off, performances were fixed, and the number of proprietors had reached a peak that would not be exceeded until the early 1870s. But still...
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    18,57 €

  • Grand Entre
    Stuart Thayer / William L. Slout
    Covering the years 1870-75, this history celebrates the introduction of P. T. Barnum into circus proprietorship, an episode that connected his name and legend with this American institution for all time. By the middle of this decade, Barnum had become the most recognized personality of the nineteenth century--and a showman who is still remembered today. Complete with index, bib...
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    17,69 €

  • A Royal Coupling
    William L. Slout
    James A. Bailey and P. T. Barnum first joined forces to produce a double show in 1881--a royal coupling--inaugurating the 'Golden Age' of the American circus. This book details some of the activity leading up to that notable landmark in amusement history, particularly during the decade of 1871-81. Complete with notes, bibliography, index, and contemporaneous illustrations. 3 ...
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    19,85 €

  • Popular Amusements in Horse & Buggy America
    William L. Slout
    Well-known theatre and circus historian William L. Slout here collects together 29 first-hand accounts of 19th- and early 20th-century popular amusements, including summer resorts, watering places, agricultural fairs, World’s Fairs, the circus, vaudeville, theatre, and amusement parks. Complete with index, introduction, and contemporaneous illustrations. 3 ...
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    18,86 €

  • Theatre in a Tent
    William L. Slout
    A premier study of the dramatic tent show’s development. 3 ...
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    28,42 €

  • Theatre in a Tent
    William L. Slout
    A premier study of the dramatic tent show’s development. 3 ...
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    17,48 €

  • Burnt Cork and Tambourines
    William L. Slout
    Includes the seminal 'Early History of Negro Minstrelsy,' by Col. T. Allston Brown, together with pen-and-ink portraits of the major minstrels, and a comprehensive index. ...
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    19,92 €

  • Life Upon the Wicked Stage
    William L. Slout
    The articles that form this volume are compiled from the pages of the New York Clipper. Covering the three decades of the 1860s through 1880s, they convey a naïve sentiment regarding the theatre of that day, self-conscious and protective, sensitive toward outside pressures and puritanical abuses, and self-critical of personal behavior within the little world of theatrical troup...
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    43,66 €

  • Life Upon the Wicked Stage
    William L. Slout
    The articles that form this volume are compiled from the pages of the New York Clipper. Covering the three decades of the 1860s through 1880s, they convey a naïve sentiment regarding the theatre of that day, self-conscious and protective, sensitive toward outside pressures and puritanical abuses, and self-critical of personal behavior within the little world of theatrical troup...
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    22,29 €