An Actor's Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States

by Amy Hughes

Harry Watkins was no one special. During a career that spanned four decades, this nineteenth-century actor yearned for fame, but merely skirted the edges of it. He performed alongside the brightest stars, wrote scores of plays, and toured the United States and England, but he never became a household name. Inspired by this average performer's life and labor, An Actor's Tale offers an alternative history of nineteenth-century theater, focusing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472077686
• ISBN13: 9780472077687
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 304 Pages