Mr. Ernest Albrecht This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. www.joylandbooks.com

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   Published on: 10/24/2007   Last Visited: 10/24/2007

   by Ernest Albrecht
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   At a time when the Big Top was beset by shabby excess, escalating costs, and competition from movies and TV, the young performers dedicated themselves to skill and intimacy, beginning the movement Ernest Albrecht describes as the "new American circus", a reinvention of the circus as an authentic form of art.
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   Ernest Albrecht, assistant professor of English at Middlesex County College in Edison, New Jersey, is the author of A Ringling by Any Other Name, articles published in Variety, Bandwagon, Circus Report, and Theater Crafts, and some 3,500 reviews of New York theatre for the New Brunswick Home News. He was the producing director of Plays-in-the-Park in Edison, New Jersey, for fifteen years.
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   "This book is authoritative, but Mr. Albrecht wears his learning lightly. . . . The narrative is full of colorful personalities and dramatic events. . . . Should have appeal for the armchair reader as well as the circus fan."--Angus K. Gillespie, Rutgers University

2. 2. University Press of Florida: The New American Circus

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   Published on: 7/8/2006   Last Visited: 1/24/2008

   Ernest Albrecht
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   "This book is authoritative, but Mr. Albrecht wears his learning lightly. . . . The narrative is full of colorful personalities and dramatic events. . . . Should have appeal for the armchair reader as well as the circus fan."--Angus K. Gillespie, Rutgers University
   ...
   At a time when the Big Top was beset by shabby excess, escalating costs, and competition from movies and TV, the young performers dedicated themselves to skill and intimacy, beginning the movement Ernest Albrecht describes as the "new American circus," a reinvention of the circus as an authentic form of art.
   ...
   Ernest Albrecht, assistant professor of English at Middlesex County College in Edison, New Jersey, is the author of A Ringling by Any Other Name, articles published in Variety, Bandwagon, Circus Report, and Theater Crafts, and some 3,500 reviews of New York theater for the New Brunswick Home News. He was the producing director of Plays-in-the-Park in Edison, New Jersey, for fifteen years.