Rogue Performances [electronic resource] : Staging the Underclasses in Early American Theatre Culture / by P. Reed.
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9780230622715
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/33234
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2009.
Yayın Bilgisi
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XII, 249 p. 4 illus. online resource.
Dizi
Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History, 2947-5775
Özet, vb.
Rogue Performances recovers eighteenth and nineteenth-century American culture s fascination with outcast and rebellious characters. Highwaymen, thieves, beggars, rioting mobs, rebellious slaves, and mutineers dominated the stage in the period s most popular plays. Peter Reed also explores ways these characters helped to popularize theatrical forms such as ballad opera, patriotic spectacle, blackface minstrelsy, and melodrama. Reed shows how both on and offstage, these paradoxically powerful, persistent, and troubling figures reveal the contradictions of class and the force of the disempowered in the American theatrical imagination. Through analysis of both well known and lesser known plays and extensive archival research, this book challenges scholars to re-think their assumptions about the role of class in antebellum American drama.
Konu
Performing arts.
Theater.
Environment.
Theater __ History.
United States __ History.
History, Modern.
Theatre and Performance Arts.
Environmental Sciences.
Theatre History.
US History.
Modern History.
Theater.
Environment.
Theater __ History.
United States __ History.
History, Modern.
Theatre and Performance Arts.
Environmental Sciences.
Theatre History.
US History.
Modern History.
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