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      Harry B. Smith: Dean of American Librettists

      John Franceschina

      Harry B. Smith was the most prolific writer of librettos for the American musical theatre in history, with nearly half of his 300 works actually opening in New York City…

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      David Braham: The American Offenbach

      John Franceschina

      First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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      Homosexualities in the English Theatre: From Lyly to Wilde

      John Franceschina

      A broad survey of representations of homosexuality in the English theatre from the Renaissance to the late 19th century. Chapters present topics such as: a discussion of same-sex behaviour in…

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      Gore On Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore

      It is generally accepted that in the 19th century, Catherine Gore became the most prolific, if not most popular writer of fashionable novels in England. It is less well known…

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      Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1786 to 1923 Vol. 2: Alphabetical Listings from Alfred E. Aarons to Joe Jordan

      John Franceschina

      Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1786 to 1923 constitutes the first three volumes of a critical survey of incidental and dance music arrangers in the American…

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      Ross Alexander: The Life and Death of a Contract Player

      John Franceschina

      Of all the screen juveniles groomed for stardom by Warner Brothers in the 1930s, few were touted as highly by Hal Wallis and Jack Warner as Ross Alexander. Strikingly handsome…

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      Ross Alexander: The Life and Death of a Contract Player (hardback)

      John Franceschina

      Ross Alexander: The life and death of a contract player, an investigation of Broadway and Hollywood during the 1920s and 1930s, from Prohibition through the Great Depression and the Production…

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      Ritual to Realism: Collected Lectures and Fragments of Theatre History

      John Franceschina

      Between 1977 and 1992, the lectures and fragments collected in Ritual to Realism were prepared and delivered in a variety of theatre history courses to supplement assigned readings in dramatic…

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      Ritual to Realism (hardback): Collected Lectures and Fragments of Theatre History

      John Franceschina

      Between 1977 and 1992, the lectures and fragments collected in Ritual to Realism were prepared and delivered in a variety of theatre history courses to supplement assigned readings in dramatic…

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      Eight Obscene Plays from the French Erotic Theatre of the 18th and 19th Centuries

      John Franceschina

      The eight obscene plays in this collection are notable examples of French erotic theatre from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The first series of five plays comes from the two-volume…

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      Eight Obscene Plays from the French Erotic Theatre of the 18th and 19th Centuries (hardback)

      John Franceschina

      The eight obscene plays in this collection are notable examples of French erotic theatre from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The first series of five plays comes from the two-volume…

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      Gore On Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore

      First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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      David Braham: The American Offenbach

      John Franceschina

      David Braham (1838-1905) was the musical director for the famous vaudeville team of Harrigan and Hart. His long career in New York helped establish a new style of Broadway musical.

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      Harry B. Smith: Dean of American Librettists

      John Franceschina

      Harry B. Smith was the most prolific writer of librettos for the American musical theatre in history, with nearly half of his 300 works actually opening in New York City…

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      Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1786 to 1923: Volume 1, Introduction and Chronology

      John Franceschina (Pennsylvania State University)

      The first series, from 1786 through 1923 treats incidental and dance music through the emergence of jazz on the Broadway stage.

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      Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1786 to 1923: Volume 1, Introduction and Chronology (Hardback)

      John Franceschina (Pennsylvania State University)

      The first series, from 1786 through 1923 treats incidental and dance music through the emergence of jazz on the Broadway stage.

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      Duke Ellington’s Music for the Theatre

      John Franceschina

      This volume acknowledges Duke Ellington’s contribution to the stage. It offers a survey of every theatre piece he is known to have worked on during his lifetime. The plot of…

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      Sisters of Gore: Seven Gothic Melodramas by British Women, 1790-1843

      A collection of seven stage plays, plus a two-act play, by 19th-century women playwrights, of interest to theater students and enthusiasts as well as those in women’s studies. The plays…

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      Sisters of Gore: Seven Gothic Melodramas by British Women, 1790-1843

      Spans the development of Gothic melodrama from the 1790s to the 1840s, examines the background of the theatre which it and offers insight into how melodrama should be both analysed…

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      Out of Line

      Professor Emeritus of Music John Franceschina (Pennsylvania State University)

      Off-Broadway composer John Franceschina’s wonderful musical score, now in print for the first time!

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      Rape, Incest, Murder! the Marquis de Sade on Stage Volume One: Juvenilia and Early Prison Plays

      Professor Emeritus of Music John Franceschina (Pennsylvania State University)

      When numerous critics have all pointed to the stunning mastery of dialogue evinced in [Sade’s] novels, to say nothing of the truly theatrical disposition of many of the scenes-erotic or…

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      Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1786 to 1923 (hardback) Vol. 2: Alphabetical Listings from Alfred E. Aarons to Joe Jordan

      Professor Emeritus of Music John Franceschina (Pennsylvania State University)

      Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1786 to 1923 constitutes the first three volumes of a critical survey of incidental and dance music arrangers in the American…

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      Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1786 to 1923: Volume 3, Biographical and Critical Commentary - Alphabetical Listings from Edgar Stillman Kelley to Charles Zimmerman

      Professor Emeritus of Music John Franceschina (Pennsylvania State University)

      Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1786 to 1923 constitutes the first three volumes of a critical survey of incidental and dance music arrangers in the American…

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      Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1786 to 1923: Volume 3, Biographical and Critical Commentary - Alphabetical Listings from Edgar Stillman Kelley to Charles Zimmerman (Hardback)

      Professor Emeritus of Music John Franceschina (Pennsylvania State University)

      Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1786 to 1923 constitutes the first three volumes of a critical survey of incidental and dance music arrangers in the American…

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      Music Theory through Musical Theatre: Putting It Together

      John Franceschina (Professor Emeritus of Music, Professor Emeritus of Music, Pennsylvania State University)

      Music Theory through Musical Theatre provides a way of teaching music theory by way of musical theatre. Not simply a traditional music theory text, the book tackles the theoretical foundations…

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      Music Theory through Musical Theatre: Putting It Together

      John Franceschina (Professor Emeritus of Music, Professor Emeritus of Music, Pennsylvania State University)

      Music Theory through Musical Theatre provides a way of teaching music theory by way of musical theatre. Not simply a traditional music theory text, the book tackles the theoretical foundations…

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      Hermes Pan: The Man Who Danced with Fred Astaire

      John Franceschina (Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Pennsylvania State University)

      Hermes Pan: The Man who Danced with Fred Astaire is a rags-to-riches story about a boy from Tennessee who, armed with only an 8th grade education, an inexhaustible imagination, and…

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      They Started Talking

      Frank Tuttle

      From Frank Tuttle, the director of Kid Boots, The Studio Murder Mystery, True to the Navy, Roman Scandals, College Holiday, and This Gun for Hire, comes a candid and lively…

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      Socialists, Socialites, and Sociopaths: Plays and Screenplays by Frank Tuttle

      Frank Tuttle

      Socialists, Socialites, and Sociopaths is a quartet of plays and screenplays written by Frank Tuttle between film directing assignments during the last twenty-five years of his life.

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