John F Frick

Theatre and Moral Order: Theatre Symposium, V 15 (Theatre Symposium Series)

The essays gathered together in Volume 15 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium investigate how, historically, the theatre has been perceived both as a source of moral anxiety and as an instrument of moral and social reform.Essays consider, among other subjects, ethnographic depictions of the sava...

Theatre and Violence (Theatre Symposium Series)

John's Journeys

This story is about a little boy called John. He moves with his parents to California, USA. His parents take him to the beach, for the first time in his life. He sees a Humpback Whale in the oceans and imagines going on a journey with him. Little John will later paint the whale to see him every day.

Theatre, Culture and Temperance Reform in Nineteenth-Century America (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama)

John Frick examines the role of temperance drama in the overall scheme of American nineteenth-century theatre, using examples from mainstream productions and amateur theatricals. Nineteenth-century America witnessed a major movement against alcohol consumption when the temperance cause became one of...

Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)

No play in the history of the American stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin. This book traces the major dramatizations of Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through "modern" versions on film. Frick examines the major productions, companies, a...

Henry Clay Frick

Frick's father, John W. Frick, was unsuccessful in business pursuits. Henry Clay Frick attended Otterbein College for one year, but did not graduate. In 1871, at...