ACLS Humanities E-Book: Drama, theatre, and identity in the American New Republic

Drama, theatre, and identity in the American New Republic

Richards, Jeffrey H.

Year: c2005.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

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Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 American identities and the transatlantic stage

PART I Staging revolution at the margins of celebration

2 Revolution and unnatural identity in Crèvecoeur's "Landscapes"

3 British author, American text: The Poor Soldier in the new republic

4 American author, British source: writing revolution in Murray's Traveller Returned

5 Patriotic interrogations: committees of safety in early American drama

6 Dunlap's queer André: versions of revolution and manhood

PART II Coloring identities: race, religion, and the exotic

7 Susanna Rowson and the dramatized Muslim

8 James Nelson Barker and the stage American Native

9 American stage Irish in the early republic

10 Black theatre, white theatre, and the stage African

PART III Theatre, culture, and reflected identity

11 Tales of the Philadelphia Theatre: Ormond, national performance, and supranational identity

12 A British or an American tar? Play, player, and spectator in Norfolk, 1797-1800

13 After The Contrast: Tyler, civic virtue, and the Boston stage

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Title:

Drama, theatre, and identity in the American New Republic : Jeffrey H. Richards.

Author:

Richards, Jeffrey H

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Drama, theatre, and identity in the American New Republic : Jeffrey H. Richards.
Richards, Jeffrey H
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2005.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07679

Subject Headings:

• Theater and society -- United States
• National characteristics, American

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