{"product_id":"staging-ground-9780271063652","title":"Staging Ground","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough both history and personal memoir, examines the role of the Fulton Theatre in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the shaping of American identity from colonial times to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Rarely does one encounter so trenchant a mix of historical detail (meticulously researched) and personal history (deeply felt). Leslie Stainton weaves the twin strands of her hometown’s Fulton Theatre and her lifelong engagement with drama in ways both delicate and deft; this is one woman’s story, but the story also of our long national wrangle with make-believe and truth. From burial ground to burlesque hall, from jailhouse to opera house and movie theater, the Fulton’s ghosts still haunt this author and, by extension, us.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Nicholas Delbanco,University of Michigan, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of First Acts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An effective framework synthesizing personal memoir with historical overview—and case studies drawn from the annals of the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania—produces an insightful study, one that offers an innovative, novel microcosm of American theater in small-town America. Stainton’s extensively researched examination begins with the Fulton’s role in such early events as the Paxton Rebellion and the murder of fourteen Conestoga Indians in the town jail, now the theater’s foundation, and ends with the author’s final departure from Lancaster and the beginning of a new life. This is a fascinating, candid, often entertaining journey, with frequent reflections on crucial issues in our history. Stainton’s book makes an important addition to the literature on American theater and culture.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Don B. Wilmeth,editor of \u003ci\u003eCambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Reading Leslie Stainton’s \u003ci\u003eStaging Ground: An American Theater and Its Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e is like having a front-row seat at a thrilling epic drama. Stainton packs her stage with real characters, the famous and the infamous, and events unfold in a tumult of action both tragic and comic and at times heartbreakingly poignant. This book is great theater—immediate, engrossing, cathartic.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Helen Sheehy,author of \u003ci\u003eEleonora Duse: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Thanks to . . . Leslie Stainton’s wonderfully unique new book, \u003ci\u003eStaging Ground: An American Theater and Its Ghosts, \u003c\/i\u003eI find that I care about this building I’ve never seen. . . . I can’t recommend this book highly enough.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—KeithTaylor \u003ci\u003eAnn Arbor Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrologue: 1961\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1\tHaunted\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2\tMr. Yecker Opens a Theater: 1866\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3\tThe Killing of the Conestogas: 1763\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4\tSacred Space\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5\tMr. Hager Builds a Hall: 1852\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6\t“What Has the North to Do with Slavery?”: 1852–1861\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7\tInterlude \t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8\tTheater of War: 1861–1865\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9\tMr. Yecker Opens an Opera House: 1873\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10\tIn Transit\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11\tBuffalo Bill and the American West: 1873–1882\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12\tMemory Machine\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13\tThe Minstrel’s Mask: 1852–1927\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14\tEmpty Space\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15\tPlayers: 1886–1893\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16\tWomen’s Work: 1870–1931\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17\tCartography\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e18\tImages, Moving and Still: 1896–1930\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e19\tGhost Dance: 1896–1997\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue: 2008\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penn State University","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036864905559,"sku":"9780271063652","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271063652.jpg?v=1750932795","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/staging-ground-9780271063652","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}