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[theladyactress]

Anna Cora Mowatt and Ellen Tree’s Ion

Anna Cora Mowatt and Ellen Tree’s Ion

Part III: The Grand Experiment Begins [This multi-part series of entries examines Anna Cora Mowatt’s experience playing the lead role in Thomas Noon Talfourd’s “Ion.” If you are unfamiliar with the play, a full cast recording of this classic drama is available at Librivox] Anyone who knows anything about Victorian era theatre will be able to tell you that part of the explanation for the fad for…

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[theladyactress]

Anna Cora Mowatt and “Ion”

Anna Cora Mowatt and “Ion”

Part I: The Play Begins with a Punch [This multi-part series of entries examines Anna Cora Mowatt’s experience playing the lead role in Thomas Noon Talfourd’s “Ion.” If you are unfamiliar with the play, a full cast recording of this classic drama is available at Librivox] The story of Thomas Noon Talfourd’s solemn Grecian tragedy, “Ion,” making its way to the London stage begins, surprisingly…

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[theladyactress]

Anna Cora Mowatt and The Rag-Picker of Paris

Anna Cora Mowatt and The Rag-Picker of Paris

I want to start today’s entry with a complaint about standard volumes of nineteenth century theater history. By “standard volumes,” I mean those thick, imposing tomes usually done in earth tones from solemn university presses with lovely full-color illustrations and titles like “Theater in the Time of Dickens” that we force college freshmen to buy for the price of a new I-phone then buy back at…

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[steely-phil]

I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls

The Bohemian Girl, 1843