Jeffrey H. Richards is the author of Theater Enough: American Culture and the Metaphor of the World Stage, 1607-1789 (1991), and Mercy Otis Warren (1995), and has edited three other books. He has published articles in Early American Literature, William and Mary Quarterly, and other journals and collections. He has taught at the University of North Carolina, Duke University, and is currently Professor of English at Old Dominion University.
Introduction; 1. American identities and the transatlantic stage; Part I.
Staging Revolution at the Margins of Celebration: 2. Revolution and
unnatural identity in Crevecoeur'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 Andre: versions of revolution and manhood; Part II. Coloring
Identities: Race, Religion, and the Exotic: 7. Susannah Rowson and the
dramatized Muslim; 8. James Nelson Barker and the stage American native; 9.
American stage Irish in the Early Republic; 10. Black theater, white
theater, 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.
