Theatre, Culture and Temperance Reform in Nineteenth-Century America
                John W. Frick
                Cambridge University Press, 2003
                270 pages 19 half-tones
                ISBN:0521817781 | ISBN13:9780521817783

Contents

List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: A complex causality of 
neglect; 1. ‘He drank from the poisoned cup’: temperance reform in 
nineteenth-century America; 2. ‘Nine-tenths of all kindness …’: 
literature, the theatre, and the spirit of reform; 3. ‘Every odium 
within one word’: early American temperance drama and British 
prototypes; 4. Reform comes to Broadway: temperance on America’s 
mainstream stages; 5. ‘In the halls’: Temperance entertainments 
following the Civil War; 6. Epilogue: ‘Theatrical ‘Dry Rot’?’: or what 
price the anti-saloon league?; Appendix: nineteenth-century temperance 
plays; Notes; Bibliography; Index.