Brooks Barry McNamara
1937 - 2009
General Information
Bio
(1937-2009) Historian. Brooks McNamara was born in Peoria, Illinois, and died in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. He had lived in Manhattan, New York.
Full Name
Brooks Barry McNamara
Locations
New York
Author's Timeline
1937
BIRTH
Brooks Barry McNamara was born in Peoria, Illinois, in 1937.
1968
OTHER
Mr. McNamara began teaching at New York University in 1968 and was a professor of performance studies there during the 1970s and 1980s.
1969
LITWORK
The American Playhouse In The Eighteenth Century
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Nonfiction.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Nonfiction.
1976
LITWORK
Step Right Up
Garden City, New York: Doubleday.
History of the medicine show.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday.
History of the medicine show.
1983
LITWORK
American Popular Entertainments: Jokes, Monologues, Bits, and Sketches
New York City: Performing Arts Journal Publications.
Nonfiction.
New York City: Performing Arts Journal Publications.
Nonfiction.
1988
LITWORK
Plays From The Contemporary American theater
New York: New American Library.
Nonfiction.
New York: New American Library.
Nonfiction.
1990
LITWORK
The Shuberts of Broadway: A History Drawn From The Collections of the Shubert Archive
New York: Oxford University Press.
With the Shubert Archive.
New York: Oxford University Press.
With the Shubert Archive.
1992
LITWORK
The Merry Muldoons And The Brighteyes Affair
New York: Orchard Books.
Nonfiction.
New York: Orchard Books.
Nonfiction.
1996
LITWORK
Inside The Minstrel Mask: Readings In Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy
Hanover, New Hampshire: Wesleyan University Press.
Edited with Annemarie Bean and James V. Hatch.
Hanover, New Hampshire: Wesleyan University Press.
Edited with Annemarie Bean and James V. Hatch.
1997
LITWORK
Day Of Jubilee: The Great Age Of Public Celebrations In New York, 1788-1909
New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.
Nonfiction.
New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.
Nonfiction.
1999
LITWORK
Gower Champion Dance And American Musical Theatre
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.
Nonfiction; with David Payne-Carter and Stephen Nelson.
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.
Nonfiction; with David Payne-Carter and Stephen Nelson.
2002
LITWORK
The New York Concert Saloon: The Devil's Own Nights
Cambridge, U. K.; New York: Cambridge University Press.
Nonfiction.
Cambridge, U. K.; New York: Cambridge University Press.
Nonfiction.
2009
DEATH
Brooks McNamara died in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, in 2009.
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