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the diary of Harry Watkins, nineteenth-century US American actor
vii, 341 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Hardworking actor, playwright and producer Harry Watkins (1825-94) was also a prolific diarist. For fifteen years, Watkins regularly recorded the plays he saw, the roles he performed, the books he read and his impressions of current events. Performing across the United States, Watkins collaborated with preeminent performers and producers, recording his successes and failures as well as his encounters with celebrities such as P.T. Barnum, Junius Brutus Booth, Edwin Forrest, Anna Cora Mowatt and Lucy Stone. His is the only known diary of substance written by an American actor before the Civil War, making Watkins, essentially, the antebellum equivalent of Samuel Pepys. Theater historians Amy E. Hughes and Naomi J. Stubbs have selected, edited and annotated substantial excerpts from the diary in an edition that offers a vivid glimpse of how ordinary people like Watkins lived, loved, struggled and triumphed during one of the most tumultuous periods in American history. The selections in A Player and a Gentleman are drawn from a more expansive digital archive of the complete diary. The book, like its digital counterpart, will richly enhance our knowledge of antebellum theater culture and daily life in the United States during this period.
edited by Amy E. Hughes and Naomi J. Stubbs, Scott D. Dexter, technolgy director.
Includes bibliographical references and index.