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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: player and a gentleman
    sub title: the diary of Harry Watkins, nineteenth-century US American actor
  title info:
    title: Diaries. Selections
  name:
    name part: Watkins, Harry
    name part: 1825-1894
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Hughes, Amy
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Stubbs, Naomi J.
    name part: 1981-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 341 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  note: edited by Amy E. Hughes and Naomi J. Stubbs, Scott D. Dexter, technolgy director.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Watkins, Harry
      name part: 1825-1894
    genre: Diaries
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Watkins, Harry
      name part: 1825-1894
  subject:
    topic: Actors
    geographic: United States
    genre: Diaries
  subject:
    topic: Theater
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  classification: PN2287.W453 A3 2018
  classification: 792.02/8092 B
  identifier: 9780472130917
  identifier: 0472130919
  identifier: 9780472124060
  identifier: 2018021214
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180507
    record change date: 20190718163552.0
    record identifier: in00004062212