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Coalhouse Walker Jr. - real person?
Hey everyone. I just got cast as Father in "Ragtime" at the Timber Lake Playhouse in Illinois. My first professional job! Whoohoo! It's one of four shows I'm doing with them this summer.
re: Coalhouse Walker Jr. - real person?
hey we read this in english just last month so i know a little about it lol. Coalhouse is fictional HOWEVER, he is loosly based on Scott Joplin (jazz composer). Some of the similarities include where they come from (St.
re: Coalhouse Walker Jr. - real person?
The character was also conceptually related to the title character of Heinrich von Kleist's 19th century German novella "Michael Kohlhaas." You can easily find more information about this work in libraries or on the internet.
re: Coalhouse Walker Jr. - real person?
When I was in NYC 1.25, we were in some subway place across from tthe Carnegie Hal ltheatre, and there were names of the people would had performed there or who had appeared there...and I could have SWORN they had Coulhouse Walker up there........
What is the name of the book that describes the coalhouse?
The name Coalhouse Walker is a reference to Heinrich von Kleist 's German novella Michael Kohlhaas (1811). The part of the story involving Coalhouse's humiliation and his increasingly unbalanced search for a dignified resolution closely follow the plot and details of the earlier work by Kleist. The connection was acknowledged by Doctorow, but it is a matter of opinion among critics whether this constitutes literary adaptation or plagiarism.
Why is Tateh the Baron?
Tateh becomes wealthy and styles himself "the Baron" in order to move more easily through high society.
What is the number 86 in Ragtime?
In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Ragtime number 86 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
How many pages are there in Doctorow's Ragtime?
Fredric Jameson's 1991 book Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism devotes five pages to Doctorow's Ragtime, to illustrate the crisis of historiography and a resistance to interpretation.
What is Tateh's story about?
Interwoven with this story is a depiction of life in the tenement slums of New York city, focused on an Eastern European immigrant referred to as Tateh, who struggles to support himself and his daughter after driving her mother off for accepting money for sex with her employer.
When was Ragtime published?
Ragtime (novel) Ragtime. (novel) This article is about the 1975 novel. For other uses, see Ragtime (disambiguation). Ragtime is a novel by E. L. Doctorow, published in 1975. It is a work of historical fiction mainly set in the New York City area from 1902 until 1912.
Where did the coalhouses move to?
They adopt each other's children, as well as Coalhouse's son, and move to California. Mixed into the interwoven stories are subplots following prominent figures of the day, including those named above as well as in the Historical figures section below.
