VerdanaTheatre,
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.