Building on the eighteenth-century commonplace that the theater could be a school for public virtue, this book illustrates the connections between the popularity of theatrical performances in eighteenth-century British North America and the British and American national identities that colonial and Revolutionary Americans espoused. Jason Shaffer is Associate Professor of English at the United States Naval Academy.
Building on the eighteenth-century commonplace that the theater could be a school for public virtue, this book illustrates the connections between the popularity of theatrical performances in eighteenth-century British North America and the British and American national identities that colonial and Revolutionary Americans espoused.Jason Shaffer is Associate Professor of English at the United States Naval Academy.
Jason Shaffer is Associate Professor of English at the United States Naval Academy.
Inhaltsangabe
Prologue Chapter 1. Theater, Nation, and State in Early America Chapter 2. Cato and Company: A Genealogy of Performance Chapter 3. Free-Born Peoples: The Politics of Professional Theater in Early America Chapter 4. A School for Patriots: Colonial College Theater Chapter 5. Bellicose Letters: Propaganda Plays of the Revolution Epilogue. Postrevolutionary Patriotism and the American Theater Notes Index Acknowledgments
Prologue Chapter 1. Theater, Nation, and State in Early America Chapter 2. Cato and Company: A Genealogy of Performance Chapter 3. Free-Born Peoples: The Politics of Professional Theater in Early America Chapter 4. A School for Patriots: Colonial College Theater Chapter 5. Bellicose Letters: Propaganda Plays of the Revolution Epilogue. Postrevolutionary Patriotism and the American Theater Notes Index Acknowledgments
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