William G. B. Carson / William GBCarson
Librería Samer Atenea
Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
Kálamo Books
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Librería Elías (Asturias)
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Librería Kolima (Madrid)
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A sharp, evocative portrait of theatrical life in a growing American city. Managers faced relentless daily pressures.G. B. Carson’s Managers In Distress: The St. Louis Stage, 1840-1844 surveys a stormy corner of nineteenth-century theater history, tracking the commerce, personalities and public tastes that shaped early st louis theater. The study is both precise and readable, mapping the administrative realities of american stage management - the financial and logistical demands that drove decisions, the improvisations required when plans failed, and the fragile economics behind antebellum entertainment. The narrative leans on contemporary records and reportage to illuminate how performance, place and politics intersected on the Mississippi frontier; readers encounter the same tensions that made theatre a contested civic stage in missouri cultural history.As a historical document and scholarly study, this work holds significance for students of performing arts history and for anyone curious about theater management challenges in the 1840s. It functions as an academic research resource and a performing arts reference, offering context for theater studies students and historians tracing the development of 1840s american theater. Casual readers enjoy vivid period detail and human drama; classic-literature collectors and institutions prize its relevance to a broader theater history collection. The prose balances scholarly rigour with readable narrative, so scenes of civic ambition and commercial strain emerge without academic fog. For those focused on missouri cultural history and antebellum entertainment, Carson supplies a compact but revealing case study of how local tastes and continental pressures shaped performance life. Libraries, researchers and connoisseurs of nineteenth-century theater history will find the volume a useful companion to broader surveys of american stage management. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.
