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Record Nr.

UNISA996248272903316

Autore

Richards Jeffrey H.

Titolo

Drama, theatre, and identity in the American New Republic / / Jeffrey H. Richards [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2005

ISBN

0521847469

1-107-15272-0

1-281-21793-X

9786611217938

0-511-13251-4

0-511-13282-4

0-511-20086-2

0-511-33136-3

0-511-48612-X

0-511-13228-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 392 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama ; ; 22

Disciplina

306.48480973

Soggetti

Theater and society - United States

Theater - United States - History - 18th century

National characteristics, American

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 362-383) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Traveller 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 Rowson and the dramatized Muslim. -- James Nelson Barker and the stage American Native. -- American stage Irish in the early republic. -- Black theatre, white theatre, and the stage African. -- Theatre, culture, and reflected



identity. -- Tales of the Philadelphia Theatre: Ormond, 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.

Sommario/riassunto

Drama, Theatre, and Identity in the American New Republic investigates the way in which theatre both reflects and shapes the question of identity in post-revolutionary American culture. In this 2005 book 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 theatre is viewed by Richards as a transatlantic hybrid in which British theatrical traditions in writing and acting provide material and templates by which Americans see and express themselves and their relationship to others. Through intensive analyses of plays both inside and outside of the early American 'canon', 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.