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Staging ground : an American theater and its ghosts /

Through both history and personal memoir, examines the role of the Fulton Theatre in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the shaping of American identity from colonial times to the present.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stainton, Leslie, 1955- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Fulton Opera House > History.
Theater > Pennsylvania > Lancaster > History.
Theater and society > United States > History.
Stainton, Leslie, > 1955-
Yecker, Blasius, > 1834-1903.
Table of Contents:
  • Haunted
  • Mr. Yecker opens a theater: 1866
  • The killing of the Conestogas: 1763
  • Sacred space
  • Mr. Hager builds a hall: 1852
  • "What has the north to do with slavery?": 1852-1861
  • Interlude
  • Theater of war: 1861-1865
  • Mr. Yecker opens an opera house: 1873
  • In transit
  • Buffalo Bill and the American West: 1873-1882
  • Memory machine
  • The minstrel's mask: 1852-1927
  • Empty space
  • Players: 1886-1893
  • Women's work: 1870-1931
  • Cartography
  • Images, moving and still: 1896-1930
  • Ghost dance: 1896-1997.