03288nam 2200745 450 991045407400332120200520144314.00-8093-8748-41-4356-6350-0(CKB)1000000000537414(EBL)1365224(SSID)ssj0000147992(PQKBManifestationID)11150549(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000147992(PQKBWorkID)10018632(PQKB)11430706(MiAaPQ)EBC1365224(OCoLC)246676436(MdBmJHUP)muse31513(Au-PeEL)EBL1365224(CaPaEBR)ebr10754339(CaONFJC)MIL514116(OCoLC)857365420(EXLCZ)99100000000053741420070130h20072007 ub| 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrEntertaining the nation American drama in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries /Tice L. MillerCarbondale, Illinois :Southern Illinois University Press,[2007]©20071 online resource (251 p.)Theater in the AmericasDescription based upon print version of record.1-299-82865-5 0-8093-2778-3 Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-218) and index.British drama and the colonial American stage -- American drama of the new republic -- Drama in the age of Jackson -- The age of melodrama -- Realism and American drama.In this survey of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American drama, Tice L. Miller examines American plays written before a canon was established in American dramatic literature and provides analyses central to the culture that produced them. Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries evaluates plays in the early years of the republic, reveals shifts in taste from the classical to the contemporary in the 1840's and 1850's, and considers the increasing influence of realism at the end of the nineteenth century. Miller explores theTheater in the AmericasAmerican drama18th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican dramaRevolutionary period, 1775-1783History and criticismAmerican drama19th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish drama18th centuryHistory and criticismNational characteristics, American, in literatureUnited StatesIntellectual life18th centuryUnited StatesIntellectual life19th centuryUnited StatesIn literatureElectronic books.American dramaHistory and criticism.American dramaHistory and criticism.American dramaHistory and criticism.English dramaHistory and criticism.National characteristics, American, in literature.812/.309Miller Tice L859178MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454074003321Entertaining the nation1917583UNINA