"It Was Play or Starve" - Hanners - Books - The Popular Press - 9780879725877 - January 31, 1993
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"It Was Play or Starve"

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American popular entertainers in the nineteenth century faced physical hardships, prejudices, and cultural barriers. This book examines the fascinating world of these itinerant actors and their experiences with early showboats, frontier theater, minstrelsy, panorama exhibitions, and the circus. Admirable and not-so-admirable characters, who possessed equal amounts of pluck, courage, and naivete, are contrasted popular cultural tastes"


163 pages, black & white illustrations, figures

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 31, 1993
ISBN13 9780879725877
Publishers The Popular Press
Pages 163
Dimensions 152 × 220 × 10 mm   ·   333 g
Language English