LEADER 02910nam 2200529 450 001 9910476841803321 005 20180904115328.0 010 $a0-472-90261-X 010 $a0-472-12406-4 024 7 $a10.3998/mpub.9290953 035 $a(CKB)4100000006459406 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5509212 035 $a(OCoLC)1045640509 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse70236 035 $a(MiU)10.3998/mpub.9290953 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6869061 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6869061 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/69568 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000006459406 100 $a20180719d2018 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA player and a gentleman $ethe diary of Harry Watkins, nineteenth-century US American actor /$fedited by Amy E. Hughes and Naomi J. Stubbs 210 1$aAnn Arbor, Michigan :$cUniversity of Michigan Press,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (353 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-472-13091-9 330 $aHardworking actor, playwright, and stage manager 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 U.S., 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 substantial length and scope written by a U.S. 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 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 U.S. 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 U.S. during this period. 606 $aActors$zUnited States$vDiaries 606 $aTheater$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aActors 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 676 $a792.02/8092 676 $aB 700 $aWatkins$b Harry$f1825-1894,$0945146 702 $aStubbs$b Naomi J.$f1981- 702 $aHughes$b Amy 712 02$aMichigan Publishing (University of Michigan) 801 0$bMiU 801 1$bMiU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910476841803321 996 $aA player and a gentleman$92133736 997 $aUNINA