ISBN:
0511132824
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9780511132827
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 392 pages)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama 22
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Richards, Jeffrey H Drama, theatre, and identity in the American New Republic
DDC:
306.48480973
Keywords:
University of South Alabama
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Theater and society
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National characteristics, American
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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National characteristics, American
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Theater and society
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Drama
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Theater
;
Nationalbewusstsein
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History
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Electronic books
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United States
;
USA
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Introduction: American identities and the transatlantic stage. -- Staging revolution at the margins of celebration. -- Revolution and unnatural identity in Crèvecoeur's "Landscapes" -- British author, American text: The Poor Soldier in the new republic. -- American author, British source: writing revolution in Murray's Traveler Returned. -- Patriotic interrogations: committees of safety in early American drama. -- Dunlap's queer André: versions of revolution and manhood. -- Coloring identities: race, religion, and the exotic. -- Susanna Rawson and the dramatized Muslim. -- James Nelson Barker and the stage American Native. -- American stage Irish in the early republic. -- Black theater, white theater, and the stage African. -- Theodore, culture, and reflected identity. -- Tales of the Philadelphia Theodore: Osmond, national performance, and supranational identity. -- A British or an American tar? Play, player, and spectator in Norfolk, 1797-1800. -- After The Contrast: Tyler, civic virtue, and the Boston stage.
Abstract:
Jeffrey Richards examines a variety of phenomena connected to the stage, including closet Revolutionary political plays, British drama on American boards, American-authored stage plays, and poetry and fiction by early Republican writers. American theater is viewed by Richards as a transatlantic hybrid in which British theatrical traditions provide material and templates by which Americans express themselves and their relationship to others. Through intensive analysis of plays, this book confronts matters of political, ethnic, and cultural identity by moving from play text to theatrical context and from historical event to audience demography.--Publisher description
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-383) and index
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