Rowdy carousals : the Bowery boy on stage, 1848-1913 /

Combining performance theory with original archival research, Rowdy Carousals makes important interventions in nineteenth-century theater history with regard to the Bowery Boy, a rowdy, white, urban character, most famously exemplified by Mose from A Glance at New York in 1848. First, this book grea...

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