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THE THEATRE: ITS PERNICIOUS TENDENCY. Addressed to Young Men.
de Keddie, William
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- good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good
- Librería
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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Glasgow, Scotland: Glass and Duncan, 1853., 1853.. Good. - Octavo, brown cloth titled in gilt on the front cover with formal decorations in blind on both covers. The covers are bumped with a few small stains & with light dampstaining to the rear cover. The spine is rubbed & faded with its head & tail and the rear joint chipped. iv & 123 pages. The front hinge is cracked & the front endpaper is detached. There is a contemporary owner's gift inscription & a bookseller's blind stamp on the endpaper with a tiny chip out of its top edge. A good copy despite its flaws.
First edition.
William Keddie [1809-1877] was a Scottish editor, collector, scientist and author. Keddie quotes contemporary and earlier critics views on theatre and its pernicious effects on the audience, especially on the minds of the young. A lecturer to the Young Men's Christian Association recounts: "I had occasion to investigate the books of a Penitentiary last year, and I was told, without qualification, that the majority of the inmates... were first seduced from the paths of virtue at theatres, races or tea-gardens." However, Keddie's book impresses one as a history of one aspect of theatre rather than a moral tract. He ranges widely with passages on the immorality of Shakespeare's plays, the character of Falstaff, the actor Macready as a reformer of theatrical evils, the profligacy of actor Edmund Kean, the singer Jenny Lind who was persuaded to leave the stage [no doubt for moral reasons] and the actor Morgan Stanley who fully embraced the theatre but late came to recognize its deleterious effects on the audience.
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- Librería
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 37018
- Título
- THE THEATRE: ITS PERNICIOUS TENDENCY. Addressed to Young Men.
- Autor
- Keddie, William
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Glasgow, Scotland: Glass and Duncan, 1853.
- Fecha de publicación
- 1853.
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- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- THEATRE; THEATRE; STAGE; MORALITY; IMMORALITY; THE THEATRE: ITS PERNICIOUS TENDENCY. ADDRESSED TO YOUNG MEN; WILLIAM KEDDIE; SCOTTISH AUTHOR; NINETEEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Theatre;
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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Sobre Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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