Download or read book Staging Howells written by William Dean Howells and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently discovered papers in the Barrett family collection shed light on Howells's extensive career as a man of letters and the role he played in the nascent American theatrical tradition. The letters also illuminate the economics of popular theatrical production and audience response in the Gilded Age.