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Thomas Hamblin and the Bowery Theatre - The New York Reign of "Blood and Thunder" Melodramas (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Thomas Hamblin and the Bowery Theatre - The New York Reign of "Blood and Thunder" Melodramas (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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This book recounts the personal and professional life of Thomas
Souness Hamblin (1800-1853), Shakespearean actor and Bowery Theatre
manager. Primarily responsible for the popularity of "blood and
thunder" melodramas with working class audiences in New York City,
Hamblin discovered, trained and promoted many young actors and,
especially, actresses who later became famous in their own right.
He also epitomized the "sporting man" of mid-nineteenth century
life, conducting a scandalous series of affairs and visits to
Manhattan brothels, which cost him his marriage to Elizabeth
Blanchard Hamblin (1799-1849) and made him the brunt of moralist,
religious and journalistic crusades, notably that of James Gordon
Bennett's New York Herald. His machinations and perseverance
through trying challenges, including several destructions of the
Bowery Theatre by fire, extensive financial and legal
complications, and the untimely deaths of several young protegees,
earned him equal measures of admiration and opprobrium.
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