WOMEN AND AMERICAN PAGEANTRY: 1908 TO 1918.
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Title
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WOMEN AND AMERICAN PAGEANTRY: 1908 TO 1918.
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Identifier
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AAI8302549
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identifier
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8302549
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Creator
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TACKEL, MARTIN SIDNEY.
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Contributor
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Vera Mowry Roberts | Stanley Waren
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Date
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1982
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Theater
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Abstract
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This historical study examines the extent to which women participated in and contributed to the development of pageantry as a national movement from its appearance in America in 1908 to its decline during the years of the first World War. The study demonstrates that from the movement's birth, women took the lead in the creation, direction and dissemination of a new theatrical and recreational form. The very first American pageants resulted largely from the vision and work of a handful of daring and spirited women who, year after year, traversed the country, engineering and executing mass dramatic celebrations. In so doing, they helped to educate a nation in the art of communal drama and pointed the way to a new form of social recreation.;In order to examine the development of pageantry as an art form, this study attempts to define and describe the dramatic and theatrical elements inherent in American pageantry during this period, insofar as they are suggested in original pageant texts, personal accounts and contemporary criticism. In addition, the study traces the careers of seven major pageant artists: Margaret Eager, Lotta Clark, Constance D'Arcy Mackay, Hazel Mackaye, Virginia Tanner, Ethel Rockwell and Mary Porter Beegle. These and other leading women artists were authors, poets, directors, designers, dance masters, teachers and guiding spirits.;During the years immediately following the turn of the century, the growth and ideals of the little theatre, children's theatre, and outdoor drama movements were closely entwined with those of American pageantry, and may be examined as the framework within which the pageant was cultivated. To a large extent, the belief in the communal spirit, the rebellion against commercialism, the expression of the democratic ideal, the appearance of the master artist, the redefinition of theatrical space as exhibited by the New Stagecraft and outdoor drama, and the emergence of women as leaders are all inherent in the new theatre in America, and in the American pageant movement as well.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Theatre
