LEADER 04257nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910452368203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89912-4 010 $a0-8122-0793-9 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812207934 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104535 035 $a(OCoLC)802050312 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576068 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000703479 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11397137 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000703479 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10706608 035 $a(PQKB)10079011 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441628 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19895 035 $a(DE-B1597)449563 035 $a(OCoLC)979631046 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812207934 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441628 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576068 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421162 035 $a(OCoLC)932312589 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104535 100 $a20090728d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTheatrical nation$b[electronic resource] $eJews and other outlandish Englishmen in Georgian Britain /$fMichael Ragussis 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 225 1 $aHaney Foundation series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-4220-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tNote on performance histories -- $tChapter 1. "Family Quarrels" -- $tChapter 2. "Cutting Off Tongues" Multiethnic Spectacle and Ethnic Passing -- $tChapter 3. "Cheeld o' Commerce" Merchants, Jews, and Fathers in a Commercial Nation -- $tChapter 4. "Circumcised Gentiles," On Stage and Off -- $tChapter 5. Novel Performances and "the Slaves of Art" -- $tChapter 6. "For Our English Eyes" Regendering Ethnic Performance in the Novel -- $tChapter 7. New Scenes for Old Farces -- $tNotes -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aPerhaps the most significant development of the Georgian theater was its multiplication of ethnic, colonial, and provincial character types parading across the stage. In Theatrical Nation, Michael Ragussis opens up an archive of neglected plays and performances to examine how this flood of domestic and colonial others showcased England in general and London in particular as the center of an increasingly complex and culturally mixed nation and empire, and in this way illuminated the shifting identity of a newly configured Great Britain.In asking what kinds of ideological work these ethnic figures performed and what forms were invented to accomplish this work, Ragussis concentrates on the most popular of the "outlandish Englishmen," the stage Jew, Scot, and Irishman. Theatrical Nation understands these stage figures in the context of the government's controversial attempts to merge different ethnic and national groups through the 1707 Act of Union with Scotland, the Jewish Naturalization Bill of 1753, and the Act of Union with Ireland of 1800.Exploring the significant theatrical innovations that illuminate the central anxieties shared by playhouse and nation, Ragussis considers how ethnic identity was theatricalized, even as it moved from stage to print. By the early nineteenth century, Anglo-Irish and Scottish novelists attempted to deconstruct the theater's ethnic stereotypes while reimagining the theatricality of interactions between English and ethnic characters. An important shift took place as the novel's cross-ethnic love plot replaced the stage's caricatured male stereotypes with the beautiful ethnic heroine pursued by an English hero. 410 0$aHaney Foundation series. 606 $aEnglish drama$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTheater$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 676 $a792.094209033 700 $aRagussis$b Michael$0710295 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452368203321 996 $aTheatrical nation$92462811 997 $aUNINA