Performing patriotism : national identity in the colonial and revolutionary American theater
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.
eBook, English, c2007
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, c2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (230 pages).
1150931388
PrologueChapter 1. Theater, Nation, and State in Early AmericaChapter 2. Cato and Company: A Genealogy of PerformanceChapter 3. Free-Born Peoples: The Politics of Professional Theater in Early AmericaChapter 4. A School for Patriots: Colonial College TheaterChapter 5. Bellicose Letters: Propaganda Plays of the RevolutionEpilogue. Postrevolutionary Patriotism and the American TheaterNotesIndexAcknowledgments
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