Tuesday, July 2, 2013

UNCLE TOM'S CABIN ON THE STAGE





Dramatizations of this book were popular for decades, with people attending again and again. Note that the advertisement says this is the only legitimate production, but this is not true. Harriet Beecher Stowe never authorized any adaptation of her novel but copyright law was so lax at the time that she really just had to live with the productions, most of which were not that faithful to the book.

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