S. E. WilmerTheatre, Society and the Nation
Staging American Identities
S. E. Wilmner is a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and formerly Director of the School of Drama. He has been a Visiting Professor at Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the faculty of the International Centre for Advanced Theatre Studies, in Finland. Steven Wilmer is editor of Portraits of Courage: Plays by Finish Women (Helsinki University Press, 1997) and of Beckett in Dublin (Lilliput, 1992), among other works. He is also a playwright, with his works performed at the Manhattan Theatre Club and Lincoln Center.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. From British colony to independent nation: refashioning identity
2. Federalist and Democratic Republican theatre: partisan drama in nationalist trappings
3. Independence for whom? American Indians and the Ghost Dance
4. The role of workers in the nation: the Paterson Strike Pageant
5. Staging social rebellion in the 1960s
6. Reconfiguring patriarchy: suffragette and feminist plays
7. Imaging and deconstructing the multicultural nation in the 1990s
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.
