In this first modern book-length biography of native Englander William E. Burton, theatre historian David L. Rinear explores Burton s diary, letters, published reviews, and various reminiscences to reveal the tumultuous personal and professional lives of the mid-nineteenth-century actor/manager and his role in American literary history." Stage, Page, Scandals, and Vandals: William E. Burton and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre "also provides insight into the cultural and artistic climate of an early period in American history when the country was still forming a national identity.Burton...