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THBBibliographical Book "The Circus: 1870s - 1950s"
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Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
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Bibliographical Book "The Circus: 1870s - 1950s." Includes numerous photographs, illustrations, and essays on the history of one of the most important forms of entertainment in America, primarily covering the period dominated by titans like P.T. Barnum, James Anthony Bailey, and John Ringling. Hardcover, published in 2010. Edited by Noel Daniel. Includes protective sleeve showing a lithograph by Calvert Litho. Co. from 1890 displaying trapeze artists. Dust jacket included.
Size: 2 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 13 3/4 in.
#8692 .
The Englishman John Bill Ricketts brought the first modern circus to the United States in 1792, having begun his career with the Hughes Royal Circus in London in the 1780s. The first circus building in America opened on April 3rd, 1793 in Philadelphia, and so captivated the public that George Washington attended a performance there later that season, endorsing the entertainment. During the first two decades of the 19th Century the Circus of Pepin and Breschard toured from Montreal to Havana, building circus theatres in many of the cities it visited. Later Purdy, Welch & Co. and the van Amburgh circuses brought even more popularity to the interior of the country rather than the coastline, and in 1825 Joshuah Purdy Brown was the first circus owner to use a large canvas tent for performances, which soon became the icon of the industry. The biggest development came in the mid 19th Century with the elevation of whiteface clowns to a primary part of the acts rather than openers, taking the slapstick pantomime popular before the Civil War to new heights. The American circus was fundamentally revolutionized by P. T. Barnum and William Cameron Coup, who launched the travelling P. T. Barnum’s Museum, Menagerie & Circus, the first freak show, in the 1870s. Coup also introduced the first multiple-ring circuses, and was also the first circus entrepreneur to use trains to transport the circus between towns. By the 1830s sideshows were also being established alongside travelling circuses, and by the late 19th Century they were an indispensable part of the circus experience, expanding the event sometimes into a multi-day fair instead of a single day of performances. American circuses soon influenced the countries they originated from when an 1881 merger with James Anthony Bailey and James L. Hutchinson’s shows after Barnum’s led them to initiate European tours. The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show On Earth made a monumental five-year journey through America, Canada, Mexico, and Europe from 1897 to 1902, impressing other circus owners with its large scale, its touring techniques (including the tent and circus train), and its combination of circus acts, a zoological exhibition, and a freak show. This format was adopted by European circuses at the turn of the 20th Century, and remained the dominant format into the 1950s. The influence of the American circus brought about a considerable change in the character of the modern circus, as arenas were often too large for speech to be easily audible. The traditional comic dialogue of the clown assumed a less prominent place than formerly, and many clowns adopted mime techniques and resorted to broad physical comedy to entertain the audiences. The vastly increased wealth of stage properties and massive sets relegated the older equestrian feats to the background, replacing them with more ambitious acrobatic performances. After World War II the popularity of the circus declined as new forms of entertainment (such as television) arrived and the public’s tastes changed. From the 1960s onward circuses attracted growing criticism from animal rights activists, and many circuses went out of business or were forced to merge with other circus companies, unable to compete with their larger competition. Exhibitions of skill, strength, and daring requiring the employment of immense numbers of performers and often of complicated and expensive machinery eventually took over, and paved the way for the most significant shift of the 20th Century as the “New Circus” movement originating in Quebec gave rise to epic modern shows like Cirque du Soleil. Today Feld Entertainment now controls a virtual monopoly on “classic” circus events in the United States, having acquired the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows Inc. in 1967.
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2 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 13 3/4 in.
